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...move is particularly startling because President Kirchner actually leads the First Lady in the most recent polls, at a 55% approval rating, according to one survey, to her 45%. The same polls show that, in any case, either Kirchner would easily defeat the leading opposition candidate, the middle-of-the-road anti-corruption candidate Elisa Carrio of the ARI party, who has only a 12% rating. Kirchner's former economy minister Roberto Lavagna, who is seen by many as having masterminded Argentina's recovery from the economic chaos that preceded Kirchner, has only an 11% chance...
Texas is now a state of urban dwellers and many are newcomers who have no cultural memory of the cycle of drought and abundance that rules here. In fact, last year, a survey of Central Texans found most didn't know where their water came from. Most of us simply think of the Highland Lakes as a recreational resource. But the necklace of man-made lakes that control the Colorado River were built in the 1930s to harness deadly floodwaters and provide water and electricity to the region...
...hands of consumers. Daniel Doutol, co-founder of SpinVox, an innovative voice-messaging startup, says it's just a matter of time before companies like Google and Yahoo! compete more directly with the carriers. Both portals, like Apple, have fiercely loyal fans. About 55% of those asked in a survey by Equs Group, a market research firm, said they would happily buy a Google or Yahoo-branded phone. It's a lucrative market: by 2010, about as many people will have a cell phone as a toothbrush...
...Despite a signed contract saying a major research question is why people opt out, there was no survey done of private school, charter and parochial parents,” said School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan '80. “It excluded about 30 percent of our city's families with children...
FREE TO CHOOSE The survey data reveal that parents who have withdrawn their children from the system are more critical of Cambridge's controlled-choice plan, indicating that parents might leave because they are upset about not receiving one of their top choices...