Word: polled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...preseason poll, Purdue was anked 19th and we were 18th," said unior Greg Wriede. "Every team singles out a particular meet for their big rest meet and this was their's. It made all the difference in the world...
...According to a poll released Friday by Louis Harris and Associates, 85 percent of respondents who were around in 1963 can remember where they were, what they were doing or who they were with when they heard the news from Dallas. That's about the same number that recall their whereabouts at the time of the Oklahoma bombing and the O.J. acquittal in 1995. But when it came to Diana's death on the night of August 31, an overwhelming 97 percent found the incident had been seared into their memories. Harris says that is "about as close to everyone...
Those results, while only for one quarter, underline what is becoming a remarkable strategic and cultural overhaul of this $45.67 billion company, which by the way is America's most respected brand, according to a Harris poll. Strategically, Sony is taking the plunge into the digital, wired world. It had little choice. Sony got rich and famous by building a series of great gadgets--the transistor radio, the Walkman, Trinitrons--that took advantage of unique technical advances, like those in miniaturization. Although Sony still makes a ton of money on Walkmans, its competitive edge in such stand-alone products...
...billion business. Sears launched Canyon River Blues two years ago and just last year sales topped $200 million. By washing away the stores' image from that of the jeans, the once stodgy retailers have attracted the most discriminating jeans buyers: teens. In a recent poll of favored brands of jeans, conducted by Teenage Research Unlimited, Arizona ranked second. "The very retailers we sell to have cracked the code on how to create and sell their own brand," acknowledges Levi's Shank...
Sources: Labor Department, Report of the Secretary of Defense to the President and Congress, USA Today/Gallup Poll, bureau reports