Word: polled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council will also conduct a phone poll to complete voting on a constitutional amendment requiring it to maintain a balanced budget every year...
...Buchanan back the general idea but say the mortgage-interest and charitable-donation deductions are too popular to end. Dole and Lamar Alexander have been cagier about how flat and how free of exceptions their plans would be. Forbes sneers at his rivals, "They are responding to a poll rather than to conviction." But their views show a respect for recent history. Former-California Governor Jerry Brown ran on a flat tax for the Democratic nomination in 1992 and was savaged by candidate Bill Clinton for proposing to cut taxes for the rich and raise them for the middle class...
...season media poll proves prophetic, Harvard should come away with the victory. The Crimson was picked one spot ahead of the Big Green to win this season's Ivy League title...
...increasing number of Americans, Newt Gingrich does not inspire confidence as the chosen leader to drive radicalized conservative ideals toward a new way of governing. In a new TIME/CNN poll of adult Americans, 60% of those surveyed said Gingrich is not "someone you can trust," and 49% said he is "scary." It may be that Gingrich will end up like Moses, the prophet who delivered his people to the promised land but was not allowed to join them there...
...federal races. House Democrats plan to use the documents as a basis for at least one new complaint before the ethics committee, including one that GOPAC donors got return favors from Gingrich. None of this will help stay the collapse of the Speaker's general popularity. In a Time/cnn poll conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, only 24% of those questioned said they had a favorable impression of Gingrich, vs. 56% unfavorable...