Word: polls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arab-Jewish problem is geographic--who will live where, under whose sovereignty--and the only solution to it is political. Real, apolitical hatreds may not run as deep as Shipler suggests. On the Israeli side, at least, animosity toward Arabs is not generic. A poll Shipler cites in another context showed that while Syrian Arabs were perceived as being violent by 57.6 percent of Israelis, only 20.7 per cent viewed Egyptian Arabs as violent after Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel. That's roughly the same percentage of Israelis who viewed Israelis as violent...
According to several recent polls, Hampers' negative tactics helped her move up from "barely a blip on the screen," to a serious opponent who almost tied Crane in one poll. However, her popularity appears to have peaked already, as voters have begun to find her aggressive advertising offensive...
...Terriers (now 14-1-2) were ranked sixth in yesterday's Intercollegiate Soccer Association of America (ISAA) Division I national poll, but their number-one regional ranking holds more significance, as far as the Crimson (4-2-3) is concerned...
...will help with the most urgent and expensive projects. The bulk of the cost, however, will fall on state taxpayers in the form of increased taxes and bond issues. That's why voting for the tax ceiling proposed in Question 3 would be serious mistake. According to a recent poll, almost two-thirds of Massachusetts voters were willing to pay an extra $100 in taxes to fund the clean-up effort, and almost 70 percent said they thought standards for protecting the environment could not be too high "regardless of the cost...
...presidential candidate worth the cost of a private poll knows it is never too early to visit Iowa and New Hampshire, sites of early delegate contests in 1988. Now Democrats who dream of life in the White House have one more stop on that long and winding road: a meal and a chat with a group called Impac...