Word: polled
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...invasion. The defense exercises--involving mock bamboo thrusts to the bellies of invading soldiers--struck many citizens as ridiculous. But everyone took part in the drills. A student explained, "No one wanted to be blamed for quitting." In the U.S. few were for quitting either. A June 1945 Gallup poll showed 90% of Americans pressing for decisive victory rather than peace terms that would allow Japan to avoid occupation...
Dole has come to dominate the Republican field so completely -- last week a TIME/CNN poll put him ahead of his closest rival by 32 points -- that his nomination looks increasingly inevitable. But as Dole's lead over Clinton has vanished, there is a growing fear in G.O.P. circles that the party is about to nominate a man who does not excite the party's rank and file; a Washington insider in an age when the term has become an insult; a closet centrist with a hard head and a bleeding heart; and, most worrisome, a candidate who might squander...
What made him stand his ground? For one thing, he seems to be in synch with a majority of those questioned in a TIME/CNN poll taken after the speech. Asked about federal affirmative-action plans in language mimicking Clinton's, 65% said they should be "mended"; just 24% said "ended...
...Council on Competitiveness, tried to convince his congressional colleagues that the EPA is ideologically driven and that the targeted regulations "actually, in some ways, harm the environment and certainly cost us jobs." But opponents said the measures paralyze environmental protection and are driven by corporate interests. A TIME/CNN poll taken earlier this year found that 42 percent of Americans felt that environmental regulation does not go far enough, while 29 percent called it adequate. Only 23 percent felt it was too excessive...
Would the move backfire? While many families of MIA combatants felt betrayed, the White House knew that the bulk of Americans would approve. The most recent Gallup poll on the issue found that in the past two years, support for recognition has risen from 48% to 61%, with just 27% now opposed. The number of MIA "discrepancy cases"--airmen shot down over North Vietnam and still unaccounted for--is down to just 55 by official count, and most people seemed resigned to the idea that the fortunes of war are bound to leave a few mysteries. A day after Clinton...