Word: polls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Polls show that the public is thoroughly confused by Carter's proposal for a net cut of $25 billion in individual and corporate taxes. Though a Harris poll in March turned up a 55% majority in favor of the program, people questioned earlier by Gallup pollsters declared 9 to 1 that it was more important to control inflation than to trim taxes. As a result, strong pressure is building in Congress to reduce the cut to $18 billion or $20 billion, and perhaps to delay it by three months as well, making it effective Jan. 1. Those two moves...
...unease over Carter has spread, he has dropped in the polls. In the New York Times-CBS survey released this month, only 46% feel he is performing well. A Harris-ABC poll puts the approval figure at 43%, though it is up from 36% in March. The Iowa Poll, the most respected in the Midwest, indicates that Carter is in a "public opinion tailspin" that has been gaining momentum in recent months. Those giving him a favorable report plummeted from 80% a year ago to 45% this month, a drop that was exceeded only by Richard Nixon in his last...
...opposition, however, charged that ballot-box rigging rather than hard campaigning was responsible for the Marcos sweep. Laban poll watchers had been harassed in many cases on voting day itself; in monitoring a suspiciously slow canvass of the returns, which at week's end was less than half finished, Laban claimed such irregularities as completely fictitious tally sheets. Even many people who were not Laban activists were disturbed. One group of 17 Jesuit priests petitioned the Philippine Conference of Catholic Bishops to conduct an investigation, saying there were mounting indications that a "deliberate, systematic and therefore widespread dishonesty...
...very devilishness of the complexities, however, forces Government to keep trying new ways to tame inflation. No policymaker can pretend to himself any longer that it will subside on its own, and every national poll identifies inflation as the issue that most worries voters...
According to the poll, 62 per cent of the students plan to enter the most lucrative type of law practice, private practice with an established firm, at starting salaries of $22,000 to $25,000 per year. As one pollee said, "We're after the big bucks...