Word: polled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began with an unprecedented move by the Corporation (the University's top governing board which helps choose the president) to send out 203,000 letters to students, faculty, alumni and staff soliciting names of possible candidates. This effort to poll the community as to what type of person was desirable resulted in several thousand responses and a list of more than 600 names...
...broadest sense, Edelman's positions are extremely popular. Who, after all, would ever stand against children? In a recent TIME/CNN poll, 73% of those surveyed favor having more of their tax dollars go to programs that benefit the young. For the most part, that sentiment has proved beneficial. Since Edelman launched the Children's Defense Fund in 1973, American children are doing better in such areas as math and science proficiency, immunizations and infant survival rates, thanks in part to government action...
...staying out front? Maybe Don Rickles can advise him on this. But whatever he decides, Dr. Kevorkian won't really be out front anymore. That place was taken for 15 minutes just last week by a gang of anonymous nurses, one of five of whom confessed in a poll published by the New England Journal of Medicine to "hastening death" in intensive-care cases...
...June until August. Ambushed in recent weeks by Clinton on welfare reform, on the right of states to disavow homosexual unions and on affirmative action, Dole put a wry face on the situation. Asked why he thought Clinton was talking about curfews, Dole said, "he must have taken a poll." Lamia Abu-Haidar
...eventually withdrew his support for the bill. Meanwhile, the percentage of children living in "extreme poverty" (with a family income level less than half the official poverty level) has doubled to 10 percent since 1975. And the public seems to favor increased spending on children: according to a TIME/CNN poll conducted in early May, 73 percent of people surveyed were in favor, while only 22 percent were firmly opposed. Neither Clinton nor other politicians were invited to speak at the march.-->