Word: polled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...initiative four years ago as a bureaucratic monster, the tobacco industry successfully reframed the legislation as a Big Government, big-spending, tax-hiking mess. But that effort alone could not have worked if a lot of politicians had not sat down and done the math and found that the poll numbers did not add up the way they had long expected. In the months leading up to the midterm elections, when only the party's hard-core base of supporters can be counted on to turn up, Republicans are more concerned with the priorities of the social conservatives...
...taken as an insult by Beijing, and that's not his purpose." Still, by arresting dissidents a day after refusing entry visas to journalists from Radio Free Asia, Jiang Zemin's government isn't exactly making Clinton's China policy an easy sell -- but then, they don't have poll numbers to worry about...
Most baby boomers plan to keep working well past retirement age, according to an A.A.R.P. poll released last week. It's a good thing, since they might not have an alternative. Only 65% of eligible Americans are contributing to 401(k) plans, and just 10% are saving the maximum. Most employers match a portion of contributions--say, the first $3,000--so don't leave that money on the table...
...Percentage of people in a recent poll who said the aroma that best defines America is barbecue...
...World Cup may be a good strong-arm tactic to use with the bosses, but it ain't exactly going to win any sympathy contests. With thousands of soccer fans -- not to mention Eritreans attempting to flee the growing conflict with Ethiopia -- stranded, the pilots' popularity is plummeting. A poll in Le Journal du Dimanche showed that just 38 percent of the union-friendly French public support their strike. Compare that to 79 percent for the truckers last fall, and you have the picket-line equivalent of an own goal...