Word: polls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most professional pollsters, jurists and prosecutors in Cleveland dismiss Perk's poll as far less than objective. Among other things, the mayor prefaced his questionnaire with a plea "to have evidence to present in court which will make it unlawful to peddle obscene material in Cleveland." Perk, not so incidentally, plans to run for re-election in November...
...commission's recommendations will be sponsored in Congress by Goldwater and Edward Koch of New York, a conservative Republican and a liberal Democrat. Americans clearly want action. A Harris poll in March found that 3 out of 4 voters back laws that would "lay down rules for the way business and other private organizations should deal with information [about individuals]." But the unusual right-left coalition in Congress may prove tenuous because, says Goldwater, "privacy is a subtle issue with no specific constituency. It will constantly get bogged down in political differences...
...demoniac leer of Charles Manson. Confessions without remorse. An aerospace unemployment line of 180,000 bodies. Flickering images of a bank burning. Such impulses, such possibilities, had always been there beneath the glitter, but once they surfaced, it was hard to see Utopia any longer. Suddenly, a 1971 California poll showed that half the state's recent arrivals, plus a full third of its permanent residents, would leave if given the chance. This was big news. By 1972 California migration was 90% below the annual rate of 300,000 who entered during the '60s. The recession...
Ward, advised by the National Association for Freedom, a right-wing organization made up mostly of businessmen, refused to cooperate with ACAS. He rejected its proposal to poll his employees on whether or not they wanted union representation. When ACAS polled the striking workers anyway, they opted for the union. ACAS then recommended that the company recognize APEX. But Ward went to court to contend that the ballot had been improperly conducted...
...taken against some 20 priests who ran as candidates in the election (three won), despite Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancon's admonition that the church should stay above the political struggle. In any case, the church has a spiritual struggle on its hands?against "indifferentism." According to one recent poll, only 48% of adult Spaniards consider themselves practicing Catholics...