Word: polled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Student Council poll, students overwhelmingly support a "utilitarian" memorial to Harvard's World or statue. Eventually plaques are erected along the south wall of Memorial Church listing the names of the deceased...
...domestic and international criticism, Tung was condemned as a puppet--or else as a high-handed authoritarian--ready to roll back democratic reforms at Beijing's command. "This is the first real test of what the 'one country, two systems' slogan means," says Michael DeGolyer, chairman of the poll-taking Hong Kong Transition Project. "People want to know whether Tung is Beijing's representative in Hong Kong or Hong Kong's representative in Beijing...
...tens of thousands of women into the armed forces since the early 1980s. Many married service members have chosen to cheat with one another instead of using prostitutes. Linda Bird Francke notes in her new book, Ground Zero, that 64% of the Air Force personnel responding to a Roper Poll of Gulf War units reported sexual activity in their squads. Not that it bothered them: 77% of the Roper respondents said it had little or no effect on readiness for battle. Yet the brass has been unconvinced, especially when fraternization--the extracurricular association of officers with enlisted personnel--was involved...
...considered other indicators, such as slowing consumer consumption, that seem to show that economic activity may be slowing enough to keep inflation low without another rate hike. While many investors believe the Fed will move to steer the economy by raising short-term interest rates sometime this year -- a poll of 243 economists by the National Association of Business Economists reported that 84 percent expect an increase -- analysts are split on just how much gross domestic product can safely grow without overheating. TIME's Board of Economists were divided when they met last week with the magazine's editors; Morgan...
...Georgia mop-top is getting his hair cut every two to three weeks. Result: a slimmer, more sophisticated Speaker. But Newt's G.O.P. critics say he also has a slimmed-down agenda to go with his new figure: improving education, fighting drugs, reducing teen pregnancy--all poll-tested issues in synch with middle-of-the-road Americans...