Word: polled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...policy that out laws smoking in two of its four residential towers. The new measure is a good start and shows respect for the comfort and health rights of non-smokers. However, in a house with a smoking population of only three or four percent (by a recent poll), this measure does not go far enough...
...trends are not much kinder to Democrats elsewhere in the country. A national poll released last week by Republican Ed Goeas and Democrat Celinda Lake showed that voters had more confidence in the Republican Party on most issues and preferred Republican candidates for Congress. As a result, congressional expert Charles Cook gives the Democrats almost no chance of winning back a majority in the Senate next year and a 40% chance at most of retaking the House. One reason, says Cook, is simple lack of preparation: "I see none of the introspection that we saw the Democrats do during...
...council also authorized a poll concerningrandomization of the housing lottery in hopes ofconvincing the administration not to eliminatechoice in the lottery...
...Another poll was authorized which deals withissues including the viability of the council,cable TV and newspaper delivery...
...more if you could just have a simple tax, fill it out yourself and never use an accountant?" All but two hands went up. (Both, it turned out, were accountants.) Someone yelled, "Try $250!" A third of the audience raised hands for that one. Gingrich tried the same straw poll at other town meetings and got a similar response. "It was amazing," he told Time. "It was the most emotion I've seen" on any issue...