Word: polls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assembly voted at its last meeting before spring vacation to poll students in the dining halls next week on various campus issues, including whether political parties should exist in the assembly...
James indeed seems not to care. Says he: "Judge me by the bottom line-literacy, jobs, per capita income. I'm going to figure out what's right and do it. If it is right, the people will support it." So far, they have. Preliminary poll results show him with a 69% favorable performance rating, higher than Wallace ever commanded during his twelve years in the Governor's office...
...rhetoric is turning on the conservative rank-and-file Republicans, who traditionally play an outsize role in determining the party's presidential standardbearer. Three weeks ago, the silver-haired Connally made a stem-winding speech to 600 Midwestern Republican leaders at a convention in Indianapolis. A subsequent poll of 254 delegates showed that 29% favored Connally for the nomination, while Reagan trailed with 21%. Admits a rival, conservative Congressman Philip Crane of Illinois: "Connally has a lot of pizazz...
Already some favorable trends are in motion. Every poll shows the electorate moving closer to the political center. Voters are choosing candidates who advocate a sensible balance of moderate regulation and job-creating economic development. Taxes on capital and corporations are coming down, as well as taxes on individuals. In a nation of perpetual, peaceful revolution, the people are in revolt against high spending, heavy deficits and overreaching Government control...
...clearly a violation of the Freudian ethic, which forbids any social contact between patient and doctor, to say nothing of the Hippocratic oath, there is clearly some fire behind the smoke. In Florida alone, nine psychiatrists last year were charged with sexual misconduct during therapy; in a recent poll of 500 psychiatrists, a medical journal found that a surprising 19% said that they approved of doctor-patient sex under some circumstances. The intimate relationships in therapy obviously make both patient and doctor more sexually vulnerable than in other professional relationships, but such deplorable indiscretions are found in all branches...