Word: polled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's win comes after being dissected by New Hampshire on Wednesday in a 5-2 loss. UNH's stock rose with the win, enough to push them into this week's college hockey poll...
...Golden Knight's win was enough to sway the voters, who jumped Clarkson up to No. 9 in the country, their first appearance in the poll this year...
...inclusive socially and prepared to make the hard choices fiscally . . . if it is led by the right person." The key ingredient, he writes, is "the kind of moral authority the Administration clearly does not have and that the (GOP's) 'Contract with America' cannot provide, since it is poll-driven." Tsongas told the Globe that Powell has received a copy of the memo, but that they have not discussed it. For his part, the politically-unaffiliated general told an audience last month: "I think there is a possibility of a third party in '96. I think it would be wonderful...
...just that Newt is new; it's that he has ideas, 10 simple and simplistic solutions embodied in his "Contract with America." Not all of Newt's poll-driven notions are nonsense, of course, but transparency is their common denominator. They seek to gratify the public's desires and quiet its fears. Conveniently forgotten is the real world's complexity and an appreciation for the long-term consequences of their feel-good prescriptions. Consider, for example, the contract's implicit welfare paradigm: We're against children having children, so unwed teen mothers will be denied welfare and their kids...
...Grachev has become the embodiment of every ailment besetting the once-mighty military. Communists and nationalists vilify him for the army's loss of prestige and morale. Reformers castigate him for its inefficiency and widespread corruption. Even Grachev's own troops would like to see him go; a recent poll conducted by a German public interest group indicated that officers are so embittered by poor housing, paltry pay and pathetic prospects for the future that only 20% approve of Grachev...