Word: polling
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...several thousand Nazi criminals in hiding abroad might escape justice. There has been international pressure on the Bundestag, particularly from Jews around the world, to abolish the statute of limitation, but television played its part as well. After the U.S. series Holocaust was shown on West German TV, a poll showed a striking increase in the number of people approving a change...
Because nearly 40% of all oil used in the nation goes for gasoline, the first and most important step is to brake gasoline demand. Rationing would seem to be the politically expedient method. A New York Times-CBS News poll in early June found that three out of five Americans would prefer rationing to shortages and skyrocketing prices. Yet any form of rationing would tend to be inequitable and a bureaucratic nightmare. Even during World War II, when the U.S. was united as never before or since, gasoline rationing was marked by corruption, favoritism and loopholes. Today, rationing would...
...Administration has repeatedly emphasized, conservation is a necessary component of any energy program, and Americans are more prepared to support the effort than they are given credit for. A New York Times/CBS News poll last week showed, for instance, that the public would far prefer gasoline rationing to the present skyrocketing price of the fuel...
...until late this month, at the earliest, is the falling Skylab expected to shower the earth with red-hot debris. From the White House last week, it may have looked as if Skylab were arriving early. President Carter's public standing in the polls was still dropping, to an all-time low for him of 37% in the latest nationwide Gallup survey and to an almost unbelievable 11% in Mervin Field's California Poll. The gasoline lines that seemed to be lessening in California began appearing in New York. A new round of Middle East oil price increases...
...poll conducted by the Student Assembly showed most students wanted the Engelhard Library renamed. Even more of those polled demanded the University provide free toilet paper to River House residents, a wish that was granted less than a month later...