Word: polls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychological setbacks, there was still a feeling of inevitability about Carter's nomination. According to the New York Times/CBS survey, he is the only Democrat who would now beat Gerald Ford and carry the South. The real surprise is the remarkable rise of Brown. No figures from the poll were disclosed, but the news organizations reported that while Ford bested both Brown and Humphrey, Brown would run almost as strongly as the Minnesota Senator...
...Cheating is not endemic," says Johns Hopkins Dean Sigmund Suskind. "It's epidemic. My colleagues all over agree." Yale Dean Eva Balogh describes it as "rampant." At Lehigh University, a telephone poll shows that fully 47% of the students have cheated on exams, and at the University of Southern California, the student newspaper reports that as many as 40% have resorted to plagiarism...
...Japanese public increasingly cynical about its leaders in general. He played on this theme last week at his press conference by accusing the party bosses of dictatorially trying to control events through an agreement among themselves. That may prove to be a persuasive point with the public. A recent poll conducted by the Kyodo News Service indicated that only 12% of the Japanese people thought Miki should step down, while 64% felt he should remain in office until the fall...
...their best record since 1971, winning 10 of 15 games and taking third place in the rough Ivy League. After going 4-9 in 1975 and wallowing in sixth place in the Ivies, the team righted itself this time around and moved into the top fifteen in the national poll...
Scott, to be sure, was not Thorpe's only political problem. His electoral fortunes peaked in the Feb. 1974 election, when he lured enough discontented voters from both Labor and the Tories to poll an impressive 20% of the vote and won, with just 14 seats in the Commons, what looked like an ideal position on the pivot of power. But Thorpe decided against bringing the Liberals into government for the first time in 44 years and turned down a Tory bid to join them in a coalition...