Word: polls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poll for TIME by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, people were asked whether Government spending should be increased, decreased or kept the same for various public needs. More than 70% said that funds should be increased for health care to the poor and the elderly, for cleaning up the environment and for aid to the homeless. Given a choice of spending more for the military or more for social programs, respondents preferred the social programs, 69% to . 23%. More than three-fourths of those surveyed said Government "should play a more active role" in such areas as health care, poverty, housing...
...unscientific Crimson poll conducted before lottery numbers were distributed on March 12 found that more than a third of the freshman class said they would change their first-choice houses if they received a number in the 300s...
Accordingly, a second poll taken after house choice forms were submitted found that more than 50 percent of the frosh with numbers larger than 250 did not list their favorite houses as their first choices...
Although Winthrop and Quincy led the pack in that first survey, garnering 16 percent of the vote each, the second poll found that Leverett had catapulted to the lead with 17 percent of the vote...
Peter H. Lemieux '71, a lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology who conducted the poll for the Globe with Professor Gary R. Orren of the Kennedy School, said the optimism of the white community can be attributed to the fact that the whites polled tend to live in isolated communities and do not have "day--to--day" experience with racial questions...