Word: polle
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...they say. According to "experts," "industry studies" and "surveys," anywhere between 70% 85% of women are treating their breasts badly, either shoving them into too-small cups or allowing them to float freely in a draping sling. The statistic's origins are murky - some cite a Victoria's Secret poll, others something from the Wacoal brand. But it has been quoted back to me by friends, colleagues, interns. It sounds true. "Eighty percent of American woman are wearing the wrong bra" is the "more likely to be killed by a terrorist than get married" statistic of the new millennium...
...prosecutors by the Election Commission last week could prove harder to hose off, though. It alleges that Thai Rak Thai, the political party founded and led by Thaksin, bribed three smaller parties to field candidates in Thailand's controversial April 2 election after the main opposition parties boycotted the poll, and that it also hacked into Election Commission computers, falsifying the candidates' records so they'd be eligible...
...question was blunt, even impudent. A foreign journalist asked President George W. Bush whether he regretted that "most Europeans consider the United States the biggest threat to global stability" - worse than Iran or North Korea. However debatable the premise, it was based on a Harris poll of 5,000 Europeans that had been featured on the front page of the Financial Times of London the day before Bush set off on his 15th trip to Europe...
...understand somehow what the vaccine was protecting them against, surely the messages parents send to them every day and over the years - about respect, responsibility, judgment and the boundaries of appropriate sexual behavior - count for more than the implicit suggestion of a single vaccine. MSNBC did an online poll asking: If you have a daughter under age 15, would you have her get the cervical cancer vaccine? Of more than 8000 responses, 80% said yes, while 5.4% said, "No. She's too young to worry about sexually transmitted diseases...
...time ahead of them, have turned them into realists. They realize Palestinians will never drive Israelis into the sea and that their best hope is for separate Israeli and Palestinian states to live side by side as wary neighbors. It is a sober appraisal that, according to a recent poll by the An-Najah University in Nablus, is shared by 79.8% of Palestinians...