Word: polling
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What got the government on edge also seeped through to the public. The State Department issued two warnings about possible overseas attacks. The FBI chipped in with an alert for mail bombs, further raising the temperature. A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll on Thursday found that 62% of citizens surveyed believe terrorism is likely by New Year's Eve. Yet at the same time, official after official trotted out with reassuring words to soothe the jitters. "The authorities are on a higher level of alert," said President Clinton, the nation's Calmer in Chief, but ordinary people ought to go ahead...
MEMORY CHECK The Alzheimer's Association is urging families to take advantage of holiday reunions to assess elderly relatives for that most delicate of problems: memory loss. An association poll reveals, however, that 1 in 2 persons incorrectly believes normal forgetfulness could be Alzheimer's. To provide some better guidance, the group is offering a booklet of warning signs to those who call 800-272-3900. Among the disease's indicators: preparing a meal and forgetting to serve it; putting things in wrong places, such as a watch in a sugar bowl...
...poll released this month by the Center for a New American Dream shows that such holiday breakdowns are more common than I thought. Among the 1,015 who were surveyed, 58% are trying to "reconnect with the joyfulness of the holiday," by cutting down on their consumption. It is counterintuitive at this time of year to concentrate on doing less for our families, but redirecting that holiday energy offers real rewards. Families that manage it will have fewer toys but more time, less debt and more satisfaction...
...Your poll on what people will be doing New Year's Eve listed those who would be spending it with friends and family, alone with a spouse or alone by themselves, and those who weren't sure yet exactly what they would be doing. But what about the thousands (or maybe millions) of us who will be working through the midnight hour? We don't exist? PETER WARREN Vancouver...
...VIDEOTAPE If yours is like most families, you'll be renting movies to watch together this holiday season, to help get into the spirit. What kind of spirit? In a poll for the video chain Blockbuster, 1 in 3 respondents cited It's a Wonderful Life or White Christmas as the film that best represents their typical holiday experience. Another 1 in 3 named Home for the Holidays, Home Alone or Beavis and Butt-head Do Christmas as most representative...