Word: polling
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...Robert W. Greenleaf, M.D., of Boston, published The Diet of Harvard Students, a comprehensive review of where and what Harvard students were eating. His poll indicated a variety of places at which University students and affiliates took their meals. Many students ate at Cambridge restaurants or in their places of residence (at the time, many students lived in local boarding houses which were not University-sponsored...
...TIME/CNN poll, 80% of working people say they're not worried about losing their jobs, up from 69% last winter. Incomes are rising among families of every level (wages and benefits were up almost 5% last month), with the poorest Americans seeing the largest percentage gain. Poverty rates for elderly and black Americans are at their lowest levels since Washington began keeping track of such matters in 1959. Welfare rolls are shrinking, and though too many human beings are falling destitute as a result, many more are being forced to remake their lives for the better. People who haven...
...refusing to follow them can be risky. The courts often look to the eeoc's analysis when ruling in discrimination lawsuits. So far, nearly 13% of all eeoc complaints under the disabilities law have involved mental illness, though some experts feel this number is leveling off. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, 62% said they believe employers should accommodate mental impairments...
...President's approval rating jumped to 67% in one poll last week, up from 38% during the hostage crisis. But if Fujimori is to stay there and run again successfully in the election three years from now, he will have to do more than chase guerrillas. He rules with a quiet, icy authoritarianism that will have to soften if it is to make room for the social reforms and additional democracy he has promised. But last week his old-fashioned hardness, the stony style he displayed when he glared down at Cerpa's body on the staircase, unquestionably...
...Oklahoma City bombing is by far the worst terrorist attack in American history, and the pressure on prosecutors to win a conviction could not be greater. According to a new TIME/CNN poll, 83% of the public believes McVeigh is guilty, so if the jury acquits him, the prosecutors, led by Joseph Hartzler, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney from Illinois, will face a tumult of outrage. Last week their burden appeared to become even heavier when the Justice Department released a damning report on the FBI forensics lab. The report specifically criticized work done in the Oklahoma bombing case, saying that...