Word: polls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pennsylvania football team went 10-0, including a victory over Division I-A Navy. The Quakers, ranked seventh in Division I-AA, should have been given a chance to prove themselves against the teams ranked higher in the Division I-AA poll...
...League officially became part of Division I-AA, which features a post-season tournament. (Teams are assigned to divisions based on the number of spectators they draw.) In 1986, the Penn football team was ranked number seven in the Division I-AA poll and would have earned a bid to the playoff had it been eligible. This fall, Harvard was ranked in the top 20 within Division I-AA, but could not test its talents against other highly-ranked schools...
Harvard faces New Hampshire on Saturday. Its chances for an NCAA Tournament bid appear to be good. The Crimson, ranked seventh in last week's poll, has won four games since the last rankings, including a convincing win over 10th-ranked and perennial power Maryland. Only six teams make the tournament...
Whether the conservative survivor of the first round is Chirac or Barre, he will almost certainly find himself still trailing Mitterrand in the polls. But with the gap as narrow as the 4% shown in the Le Point poll, there may be time in the two weeks before the second round to mount a credible come-from-behind campaign. If not, Mitterrand will be the first French President to serve a second term since -- who else -- Charles de Gaulle...
...issue. It is also one with wide appeal: it allows a candidate to sound tough in both domestic and foreign affairs while arousing passions among all economic groups, from the mean streets of the South Bronx to the manicured lawns of Westchester County. A recent New York Times/CBS News poll showed that Americans believed, 3 to 1, that fighting the flow of drugs into the country was more important than fighting Communism...