Word: polls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mitterrand and Prime Minister Jacques Chirac are locked in a struggle over terms for selling off state-owned corporations. A particularly heated battle has raged over Chirac's efforts to sell TF1, France's oldest and largest national TV channel. Strikes and marches have protested the transaction, and a poll found that 56% of those questioned were against the deal...
...answer was not long in coming. By 2 p.m. on voting day, Colude, a nonpartisan civic group that monitored the election, reported that P.A.N. poll watchers had been thrown out of 33 polling stations and supplanted by impostors who beat them to the job in 21 others. Observers also said that ballot boxes had been stuffed with P.R.I. votes in 54 districts and stolen in four others. Hardly had the polls closed when the ruling party announced a sweeping victory in all but one of 67 contested municipalities. "What can you say?" said one Reagan Administration official of the blatant...
...crucial point the Meese commission is fully in tune with most Americans: both consider pornography a worrisome problem. A poll taken for Time by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman found that nearly two-thirds of the respondents* are "very" or "fairly concerned" about the pervasiveness of pornography in the U.S. Not surprisingly, porn is much more troubling to women than to men; precisely half of all women said they were "very concerned," while only 27% of men were similarly bothered. Overall, the proportion of people who want the government to crack down harder on pornography has varied only slightly since Yankelovich first...
...launched. But these defections | are considered unlikely to topple the governing coalition. And while a few months ago the popular Peres seemed to be looking for an excuse to bring down the government, he does not apparently want the coalition to fall over this issue. A recent poll shows that the public, which credits the national unity government with solving many of Israel's economic problems, strongly opposes a breakup of the coalition and early elections...
...Congress has long been uneasy about such assistance and moved two years ago to restrict it to "humanitarian" supplies like boots and bandages. Capitol Hill has mirrored the national wariness; nearly two-thirds of the U.S. public opposes the aid, according to a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll. Reports of corruption in the contras' ranks have hurt the Administration's case as well. Government auditors reported that some $13 million of last year's $27 million in assistance could not be accounted for. In Miami two weeks ago, contra dissidents told reporters that field commanders had bilked...