Word: polled
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Sixty two percent of Americans thinkaffirmative action programsfor minorities and women sometimes discriminate against white men, according to the latest TIME-CNN poll. Sixty three percent of those polled (a base sample of 800 adults) oppose affirmative action programs that include quotas.TIME senior writer Richard Lacayosays the results show "a real tilt against affirmative action...
...KNOW A GOVERNMENT program is in trouble when it's less credible than a flying saucer. At a Senate committee hearing last month to reconfirm Shirley Chater as commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Republican Alan Simpson of Wyoming confronted Chater with a poll showing that more people under the age of 35 believe in UFOs than in the prospect that Social Security will pay them benefits upon retirement. Whatever the merits of their judgment on extraterrestrials, on Social Security the new workers have it exactly right. Given enough time, reality bites...
Before a packed house of 3,000 fans, Cambridge Rindge and Latin's varsity boys basketball team (20-4 and ranked No. 7 in a Boston Globe poll) dropped a 76-74 decision to No. 2 South Boston High School (22-1) in the Division I North finals...
...Dole's age a liability? At 71, he looks at least 10 years younger and follows a schedule that would exhaust someone half his age. In a national TIME/CNN poll last week of 426 registered Republicans, 82% of those surveyed said they don't think Dole is too old to run for President next year. And if Dole remains in good health, his age might work in his favor as an antidote to the occasional adolescent quality of Clinton. In Dole, says his friend Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, "the American people will see what they are thirsting...
...history of high-handed rule and improved his own image. Although the revelations sent the peso skidding to an all-time low on Friday, Zedillo's willingness to back the inquiry is proving popular with Mexicans long skeptical that promises of reform will ever be fulfilled. In a poll published on Thursday, 68% said they trust Zedillo more now that Raul Salinas is in jail...