Word: polled
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...city whose business has always been business, the stock-market surge, real estate boom and expansive corporate behavior point to a bullish future. The place feels surprisingly relaxed. Public confidence in the new leadership is running high: C.H. Tung's favorable rating was 59%, according to a TIME/CNN poll by Yankelovich Partners Inc. While an estimated 387,000 citizens made a preliminary negative bet on the outcome and emigrated over the past few years, many have been coming home as their confidence returns...
...thing if we resegregate higher education," the President told TIME. So Clinton chose a commencement ceremony at U.C. San Diego last Saturday to deliver to the nation his much hyped address on racial reconciliation. In the days before the speech, Connerly launched a pre-emptive media campaign: a new poll showing strong public support for ending race- and gender-based preferences, and a radio spot, broadcast in San Diego, Washington and two other cities, in which Connerly asks Clinton to promise that "government will stop using race to decide who gets a job or who gets into school." But last...
Today about 60% of white Americans oppose government efforts to help minorities; the same percentage of blacks favor them. But the public's attitude varies depending on how the survey questions are crafted. While a poll put out by Connerly last week found overwhelming support for "federal legislation prohibiting government discrimination and preferential treatment," a Gallup survey released the same week found that only 37% of whites and 12% of blacks favor a "decrease in affirmative action." In a California exit poll last year, 27% of those who voted for Proposition 209 said they supported affirmative action--even though they...
According to a TIME/Yankelovich poll, 34% of Americans believe intelligent beings from other planets have visited Earth; of those, 65% believe a UFO crash-landed near Roswell, and 80% believe the U.S. government knows more about extraterrestrials than it chooses to let on. But those numbers don't quite capture Roswell's current hot-button status. "Five years ago, if you made an offhand reference to Roswell, nobody would know what you meant. Now everybody does." So says Kevin Randle, a UFOlogist who, as co-author of the seminal UFO Crash at Roswell and its follow-up, The Truth About...
...Presidents, at least one First Lady and most judges have a law degree, although they don't necessarily need it. If minority populations are to have adequate legal representation, some committed persons who will accept the obligation to serve them must become qualified through completing law school. Should we poll those non-minorities newly admitted to law schools to see if they will meet the needs of blacks and Hispanics? GEORGE HOAK Atlanta...