Word: polling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real blow for Thompson is how many Americans concur with Fowler by implicitly trusting Al Gore. According to a USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll, 64 percent believe Gore is "an honest person." Which, given what we know about that fund-raiser and those phone calls, means we probably aren't crediting him with that much intelligence...
...football media has recognized that this is a team replete with senior leadership at several key positions, particularly on the defensive side of the ball, rewarding Harvard with a number two ranking in the annual preseason media poll (Penn was ranked first). All that remains for the Crimson is to live up to its considerable billing...
Considering that Harvard has been picked to finish second in the Ivy League Football Preseason Media Poll, Philbin hopes to create the same offensive results as a Crimson coach...
...book begs the question: If progress really is so great, why don't blacks believe it? Even those blacks who are high achievers are bitter about the racism they face (as witnesses another compelling book, Ellis Cose's The Rage of a Privileged Class, published in 1994). A recent poll for the New Yorker found that 65% of blacks say they have never been denied a job or promotion because of race--yet even a greater percentage believe racism remains a huge problem. Is this mass delusion or something else? Is there no way to get to the motivation...
...regulations: "It's better to keep your constituents happy than to keep a political party happy." So far, it's been a winning strategy: all these mayors have been re-elected handily, except Giuliani--who is running this year and led his nearest rival by 23% in a recent poll...