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Just six months ago, midway through his bumpy and very public schooling in how to head a nation, Bill Clinton qualified as the most unpopular first-year President since polling began in the 1930s. But by last week, as he marked his first anniversary in office and got down to work on his State of the Union ; address, his approval ratings had bounced back to the healthy levels of his giddy Inaugural season. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, 54% of those surveyed said they approve of Clinton's presidential performance, while only 34% disapproved...
...telephoned insurance-company CEOs at Prudential, Chubb, American International Group and CNA to urge them not to endorse the rival plan, backed by Representative Jim Cooper of Tennessee and Senator John Breaux of Louisiana. But the Administration's pre-emptive strike met with resistance. Late Friday an informal straw poll of the Roundtable's policy committee turned up broad support for Cooper-Breaux...
NCAA Men's Hockey Poll 1. Michigan (26) 21-1-1 260 2. BU 14-5-0 223 3. N. Michigan 15-6-1 180 4. HARVARD 11-3-2 168 5. Lake Sup. St. 16-7-1 160 6. UNH 15-5-1 116 7. Michigan St. 13-6-3 75 8. Colorado Coll. 14-6-2 64 9. Wisconsin 13-8-1 52 10. Northeastern...
...will not be an easy transition. Even as the first benefits of the genetic revolution begin to trickle in, people have started to wonder what those benefits will cost. A TIME/CNN poll found respondents profoundly ambivalent about genetic research and deeply divided over its applications. Asked whether they would take a genetic test that could tell them what diseases they were likely to suffer later in life, nearly as many people said they would prefer to remain ignorant (49%) as said they would like to know (50%). Most people strongly oppose human genetic engineering for any purpose except to cure...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 500 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Dec. 2 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus 4.5%. "Not sures" omitted...