Word: polls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...split could cause Begin trouble at home, although the Premier now has strong support from Israelis, 82% of whom, according to one poll, "absolutely believe" that peace with Egypt will occur within a year. Apart from a small number of dissidents who oppose any dealings with Israel, Sadat also has popular backing at home. Even conservative Muslims, reported TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, consider that "it is right to have peace with people of the book," as Jews and Christians are also considered by Islamic scholars. Cairo's strategy, as a result, will be to proceed unilaterally with...
There was no doubt that Pik Botha was the public favorite. An opinion poll of South African whites the week before the caucus had shown him leading by 83% over the other two candidates. He was also reputedly Vorster's choice for Prime Minister. But Pik's popularity -and his junior status as a minister appointed only 18 months ago-rankled his colleagues. In the end, he was forced to drop out, after receiving only 22 votes on the first ballot...
...that Yaz has forever been Achilles in Boston, sulking and slugging for 18 years, first through determination then idolatry. No one will ever doubt Yastrzemski's indispensibility on the baseball field, and no one was surprised when his adrenalin-powered shot found its way around the right field foul poll and into the seats for the game's first run in the second. And when Yaz popped to third for the final out of the game, myths may have been shattered about his supernatural skills, but respect did not diminish...
...born-again presidency for Jimmy Carter. After months of discouraging setbacks, a steady decline in the polls and increasingly open disdain from members of his own party, the President was exuberantly on the move, roving from New Jersey to the Carolinas to the Middle West. Everywhere he went, crowds turned out and cheered him for his historic success at the Middle East summit talks at Camp David, and those ringing cheers were backed up by new polls that showed him making dramatic gains in the past week. According to a CBS survey, popular approval of his Administration climbed from...
King staffers apparently took a poll in the office on Wednesday and decided that Jordan was the unnamed Carter staff member who had told the Boston Globe that King is a "turkey". "That is, we thought it was Jordan," Kaplovitz said, "until we realized that 'turkey' has six letters...