Word: polls
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...domestic U.S. takeovers later end in divestitures. When a foreign business attempts a long- distance marriage with a U.S. company, the obstacles to success rise even higher. One problem is the ambivalence of U.S. workers toward their foreign bosses. More than 75% of U.S. adults surveyed in a poll conducted last spring for a group of Japanese firms agreed that foreign acquisitions have boosted U.S. economic growth, employment and competitiveness. Nonetheless, nearly 75% viewed the increased foreign presence as undesirable...
...Boston Globe-KRC Research survey fielded the opinions of first-year students at a dozen public and private colleges in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont. It included no margin of error because the survey was a sampling rather than a scientific poll, the paper said...
...several masters also backed Jewett's plan, especially those in houses which are not characterized by aspecific stereotype. In a Crimson poll last springAdams, Eliot and Kirkland House were listed bystudents as the three most stereotyped houses atHarvard...
Massachusetts Republicans have jumped on the Frank affair, and the latest poll shows that only 45% of the Congressman's constituents still look on him favorably -- a blow but not necessarily a defeat, since 61% want him to run for office again next year. Alexander Tennant, Massachusetts G.O.P. state committee director, says the political issue is "not Barney Frank's sex life but whether the Congressman broke the law." Gobie says he did, by abusing congressional immunity to avoid paying Gobie's parking tickets, a charge Frank denies...
...other words, the clamor for Frank to resign involves a tremendous amount of homophobia. If the poll cited is correct, virtually nobody cares about the allegations at all. And most unfortunately, the Associated Press did not care to make this distinction...