Word: polls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lack of youth fitness," declares former Pro Football Coach George Allen, chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. "It's a disgrace." The alarm comes as a shock to most parents. Nine out of ten believe their own youngsters are physical marvels, a Louis Harris poll reported for Children magazine. In truth, 40% of boys and 70% of girls cannot do more than a single pull-up, according to a survey of 19,000 six-to-17-year-olds released last year by the President's council; a third of school-age boys...
...slash its salaries 10%. That is not likely to happen in 1987. But as members of the 100th Congress weigh the very real financial needs of officials in all branches of Government, including themselves, they are painfully aware of how public sentiment is running. During a call-in poll last month, ABC television recorded 167,600 votes opposing proposed pay hikes for top Government officials, vs. only 5,800 favoring the raises...
Equally, the loss did little damage to Harvard in the national polls. This week's national poll placed the Crimson in second place, behind North Dakota and in front of Boston College...
...questionable whether the White House emphasis on Reagan's lack of culpability will really help defuse the scandal. In a poll for TIME last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 58% of the respondents said that what bothered them most about the Iran-contra affair was that the public had not been told everything that happened. More than three-fourths of the public believe that Reagan is still holding back what he knows...
...leaked Senate report provides fresh insights into the Iranscam puzzle. -- Presidential hopefuls rush the 1988 campaign kickoff. -- A poll for TIME shows that Iranscam has hurt the Republicans. -- A provocative book on Martin Luther King and a television special on civil rights shed light on the man and the movement...