Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff is swayed by pretty statistics and misdirected sympathy for the ever-beleaguered administration. If the University were to follow the sentiment of the staff's editorial, it would be completely justified in not hiring a single minority faculty member for the next 25 years...
...connect with the public. Still, relying too heavily on polls can appear to be unprincipled acquiescence to public opinion, as George Bush found out. Bill Clinton promised to be different. To prove it, he laid out a detailed agenda during the campaign and pledged that the whims of public sentiment would not determine his policies. Nevertheless, when it comes to polls, Clinton is more hooked than his predecessors...
...Administration uses polls as feedback, not to chart a course," he protests. "Polls tell us whether what we're doing to communicate is working." And as an activist President who won office with less than half the vote, Clinton has even more reason to fear losing touch with public sentiment...
...held in prime time. Though the session had been planned for two weeks, it was finally scheduled rather quickly. The main reason was to try to counteract a sharp plunge in the polls and do so just before Congress's Easter recess, so that lawmakers would discover pro-Clinton sentiment on the rise back home...
That said, the single most important consideration in deciding whether or not to support a term bill increase should involve what the council plans on doing with the new revenue the increase would generate. Unfortunately, on this point, the council is divided. The collective sentiment seems to be, "Get the cash now and we'll figure out exactly what to do with it later...