Word: polling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poll sponsored by the American Jewish Committee shows similar feelings among rank-and-file American Jews. The survey found that 58% of American Jews endorse and 18% oppose Israeli-P.L.O. negotiations, provided Arafat's recognition of Israel and renunciation of terrorism are genuine. The poll found that, by a lesser margin, they favor Labor over Likud...
Garcia's erratic economics have cost him his once overwhelming popularity. A + February poll by Apoyo, Peru's leading independent polling firm, charted his approval rating at a dismal 13%. Last December Garcia's support within his own APRA (Popular American Revolutionary Alliance) Party eroded to the point where he was forced to resign as its leader. Nevertheless, the President, whose five-year term expires in 1990, has stubbornly ignored calls for him to step down...
...saving small-town America worth the expenditure of more state and federal money? As U.S. cities face deeper problems, ranging from grime to gridlock, the rural option could become more important, or at least more appealing. In a recent USA Today poll, 39% of the people surveyed said they would prefer to live in a small town. (According to U.S. Census figures, less than 24% of the population dwells in rural areas, compared with 44% in 1950.) At the very least, says former Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland, "it would be unwise for U.S. public policy to force people to leave...
...president, no comment. When it was revealed earlier this week that at least three candidates from a short list of six for the Radcliffe presidency had taken themselves out of consideration for the post, an informal poll of at least 20 Radcliffe affiliates elicited only one response: no comment...
What a difference a year makes. Quincy House is on the decline, according to a Crimson poll. Last year the house was picked first by 13.5 percent of the Class of '91. This year a paltry 2.5 percent of freshmen put the river house on the top of their housing forms...