Word: polle
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...also pointed to the success of these efforts: a recent poll found that a majority of citizens in 23 out of 33 countries polled had a favorable view of Chinese power, against just 13 nations where a majority had a favorable opinion of U.S. power...
...Presidents have long turned to the staff shakeup or cabinet shuffle as a way of digging out of trouble. And George W. Bush is in trouble - his polls continue to hover in the mid-30s (although that's not bad compared to the GOP-controlled Congress, which, in one poll released this week, has sunk to a 23% approval rating.) After his famed "malaise" speech in 1979, in which he said the country was going through a "crisis of confidence," President Jimmy Carter offed his secretaries of Treasury and Health Education and Welfare. Ronald Reagan famously reshuffled his White House...
...Washington's reluctance to deal seriously with health care reform in many ways reflects the public?s ambivalence toward the problem. Like education, voters always say health care is an issue very important to them; a Gallup poll last month found 68% of people worried "a great deal" about "the availability and affordability of health care." But in a poll this month, when CBS News asked "what is the most important problem facing this country today," five percent said health care, much lower than immigration (13%), the economy (13%) and the war in Iraq...
...editorial stated that the Undergraduate Council should abandon a plan for a student poll on Summers’ leadership; on Feb. 21, the news section fronted a story about a poll our reporters had conducted on students’ views of Summers...
Writing about the Crimson editorial on the proposed UC poll in a posting to a House open list, one student rhetorically asked, “Does the News board read the Ed page? Isn’t the ‘Staff-Ed’ supposed to reflect the view of the entire staff? Should the Crimson readership expect a retraction of that opinion? Or is there absolutely no coordination by the Crimson’s leadership as to what it is doing...