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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With Harvard and B.C. both in the top five of the NCAA poll, the Crimson-Eagle semifinal should be the biggest game of the tournament...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Crimson vs. Eagles: More Than the 'Pot | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

Voluntary national service has long been widely popular; in an early 1988 Gallup poll, 83% of those surveyed endorsed the concept. The problem is that given free choice, few 18-year-olds are likely to sign on at subsistence wages to empty bedpans or monitor naptime in day-care centers. Existing state and local programs that foster community-service apprenticeships have been unable to tap the wellsprings of middle-class idealism; in 1987 almost all the 7,000 ! young adults enrolled in such programs came from low-income families. The sad truth is that any major commitment to national service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gap Between Will and Wallet | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...greatest difficulty. In his own words, delivered during an NBC television interview last week, he is still "a huge question mark" in the public's mind. That is putting it mildly: to many people the campaign image of an intellectual lightweight stubbornly lingers. In a Yankelovich Clancy Shulman poll taken for TIME before the Inauguration, half of those questioned had no particular impression of Quayle, and 30% viewed him unfavorably. Asked if Quayle is qualified to assume the presidency, 52% said no and only 30% said yes -- a poorer ratio than the negative vote he drew in August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Education of a Standby | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

From a telephone poll of 1,012 adult Americans taken for TIME on Jan. 9-10 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fueling Up a Brawl: U.S. gas tax | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

Here Today...: St. Lawrence (16-1, 11-1) may have had the shortest-lived stay on top of the NCAA rankings this season. The Saints, ranked number one in the poll released January 11, fell to fourth this week after losing to the Crimson, 5-1 last Saturday in Canton...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: More News From Number One | 1/18/1989 | See Source »

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