Word: polle
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...preseason media poll released yesterday, Harvard received nine of 16 first-place votes. That gave it a comfortable margin over perennial favorite Penn and defending champion Brown, predicted to place second and third respectively...
...always been warned that the consequence of so much technology is isolation. But perhaps it's isolation from consequences that we seek, because we lack the fortitude to face consequences in real life. In a recent poll from Britain, 54% of women under 25 regularly pretend to be talking on their cell phone in order to keep unfamiliar people from striking up a conversation with them. Now I wonder if my kids are watching television only to avoid having to talk with...
...Lamont, who is worth between $90 million and $300 million, is leading Lieberman 54% to 41% in the latest Quinnipiac poll. His campaign accused the Lieberman camp of desperate political tactics in criticizing his holdings of the Wal-Mart stock. "This is a pathetic attempt by someone who's clinging to power to make an issue where there is no issue," Lamont's campaign manager Swan said...
...Shortly after Katrina, the report says, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention poll determined that roughly half of respondents indicated a possible need for mental health assistance, yet fewer than 2% were getting counseling. A February survey of people living in temporary FEMA-subsidized housing found that more than two-thirds of female caregivers reported feelings of anxiety, depression and other mental health disorders. As many as half of the children they were caring for were suffering from mental disorders of their own. A poll of police officers and firefighters, most of whom lost homes in the storm, found...
...politics offer much encouragement to research advocates. The issue didn't help John Kerry much in 2004, though he gave Ron Reagan a prominent speaking spot at the Democratic Convention and appeared frequently in the final months of the campaign with actor-activist Christopher Reeve's widow Dana. A poll conducted by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation shortly after the presidential election found that more than half of Bush's voters favored broadening the federal policy to include using embryos that would otherwise be discarded by fertility clinics--but voted for him anyway. That is probably because only...