Word: polls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tough "Little Italy" district, Rizzo, 55, is accused of failing to uphold law-and-order in the city. Having campaigned on the slogan "He held taxes down," he is now advocating harsh new levies. So sharply has his honor's popularity plunged that a Philadelphia Bulletin poll published in mid-April gave him an anemic 27% approval rating among those surveyed...
...been known as the Triangle Shirtwaist factory-meaning sweatshop-of television journalism. ABC spends about $44 million a year on its evening news (v. about $47 million each for CBS and NBC). The network has fewer correspondents than its rivals and is thought to pay them less. In a poll of 78 television editors, critics and columnists on U.S. newspapers taken last fall by Variety, only 6% gave ABC high marks in news gathering...
Already he is mortifying those aspirants who hoped to win the pot in California's 280-delegate June 8 primary. The California Poll last week found 47% of the state's Democrats leaning to Brown, v. only 15% for his closest active opponent, Jimmy Carter. The results pleased Hubert Humphrey's strategists, who count on dispersion of delegates. But the numbers did little for the Senator's ego. Brown swamped...
There is only one thing worse than having to play the second-ranked team in the country: having to play the top-ranked team. Yesterday morning, only hours before the Harvard-Cornell lacrosse game, The Boston Globe ran its weekly lacrosse poll. On the strength of last week's 15-7 destruction of Johns Hopkins, the Big Red of Cornell had finally passed Maryland into the number-one sopt...
Haunting Presence. As a result, the three networks and two wire services gave up competitive vote counting and formed NES as a nonprofit cooperative under the direction of Associated Press Newsman J. Richard Eimers. By the fall of 1964 Eimers had organized a network of thousands of poll "reporters," plus an election-night headquarters staff of hundreds of students and technicians. Today he still directs the system, haunting each election-night performance with his demanding presence...