Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left-of-center Republican Front. On election day the Socialists won 94 Deputies to Mendès' 50, thus giving Mollet a claim to being the senior partner. Mollet's claim rested on the fact that the Socialists picked up 455,000 new votes to poll a solid 3,188,000-their first increase since 1945, though through the inequities of the electoral system, the party actually dropped eight seats. The governing center-right coalition had lost even more, could no longer put together a majority without the Socialists...
...realize the daily scandal which they present to the nation. They do not have the remotest idea of the atmosphere which their insensitive conduct foments in factories, in the fields, in the university and in professional circles." The bishop may have had in mind the secret government poll taken recently at the University of Madrid, which showed 60% of the students against the regime (TIME...
...Washington Post and Times Herald, self-classified as Independent but leaning in a Democratic direction, assessed a poll of heart specialists who voted 141 to 93 (without the benefit of an examination of the patient) that Ike could be regarded as physically able to serve a second term. "The most significant conclusion to be drawn from this," said the Post, "is that heart specialists tend to be Republicans by a preponderance of about...
...merger would retain the basic format of the existing catalogue, but would incorporate certain descriptive titles to replace the numbers now used. "The Registrar's staff collected the names by secret poll," as an informant in the registrar's office said...
...took up the theme. Unrest among Spanish students and workers and dissatisfaction among some intellectuals, said Franco, are due to the "venom of materialism" propagated by radio broadcasts from Communist countries and "seconded by misguided Spaniards at home." What obviously disturbed him were the shattering results of the university poll, though his Spanish listeners could not know this, since no word of the poll has yet appeared in Spain's unfree press...