Word: polled
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Unfortunately, we can also see the reflection in today's post-Holocaust society. In his speech on April 6, National Anti Defamation League Director Abraham H. Foxman cited growing Anti-Semitism in this country and abroad. Particularly disturbing was a 1991 poll that found 31 percent of Americans thought American Jews "too powerful, too successful or too influential...
...recent Internet poll had ranked three other teams, including Georgia Tech, ahead of Harvard, Todor said...
...they start offending their core constituencies, the Republicans will have to endure a challenge to their popularity as well. The President is already catching up with them. When citizens were asked in a TIME/CNN poll last week whom they trusted more to deal with the major issues facing the country, President Clinton was preferred by 42% of those surveyed, vs. 41% for the congressional Republicans. Clinton is up 12 points since early December, while the G.O.P. is down five points during the same period. Partly because of his abrasive style and partly because of Democratic characterizations of the contract...
...contract began as a very political campaign document, carefully poll- and focus-group tested for its popularity. But as a legislative strategy, it proved even more useful in presenting a list of very popular and easily passable propositions. "It is fair to say," Gingrich said last week, "that we cleverly picked popular things to do." Passing the contract provided a large degree of political momentum. But it didn't provide many profiles in courage...
...before Easter, when Christians are invited to dwell on the deepest mysteries of faith. Far from being resolved by centuries of scholarship and devotion, the paradox of miracles seems only to deepen. Certainly they occupy a strange place on the spiritual map of America. When Time asked in a poll last week whether people believe in miracles, 69% said yes; and the fastest-growing churches in America are the Charismatic and Pentecostal congregations whose worship revolves around "signs and wonders." Tens of thousands of people gather in a pasture in Georgia or a backyard in Lubbock, Texas, because of reports...