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...moment, most Americans seem to agree with Busalacchi. In a poll conducted last month for TIME/CNN by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 80% of those $ surveyed said decisions about ending the lives of terminally ill patients who cannot decide for themselves should be made by their families and doctors rather than lawmakers. If a patient is terminally ill and unconscious but has left instructions in a living will, 81% believe the doctor should be allowed to withdraw life-sustaining treatment; 57% believe it is all right for doctors in such cases to go even further and administer lethal injections or provide lethal...
...TIME/CNN poll taken last week by the firm Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 63% said Wall Street bankers and brokers could be trusted "somewhat" or "a little" to do what is best for the U.S. economy while 30% said "not at all." Regarding mergers and takeovers, 68% viewed them as "not a good thing" for the U.S. economy and 56% saw the need for more government restrictions on such deals. The corporate debt piled up in the 1980s will be a problem in the next decade, according to 74%, who saw it as "serious" or "very serious...
Consumers, whose spending represents two-thirds of the economy, generally think the U.S. will steer clear of a recession in the next twelve months. In a poll for TIME/CNN by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 60% of those surveyed think a 1990 recession is unlikely, vs. 32% who believe one is probable. Yet consumers have no great expectations of resurgent U.S. growth this year: 64% think conditions will stay the same, while only 14% see an improvement, and 20% expect things to get worse. One concern is unemployment: 60% of those polled think U.S. joblessness, which remained at 5.3% in December...
Even gun owners seem inclined to accept such restrictions. In a poll for TIME/CNN by the firm of Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 56% of the gun owners questioned described themselves as supporters of the N.R.A. Yet 73% approved of mandatory registration of semiautomatic weapons. Also, 87% said they would support passage of a federal law to require a seven-day waiting period and a background check for anyone wanting to buy a handgun. Those are proposals that the House will consider again in its upcoming session...
...past quarter-century: the explosion of roles for women, their far greater participation in the country's political and intellectual life, the many options that have come to replace their confinement to homemaking. Very few women would like to turn back the clock. A TIME/CNN survey conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman of 1,000 women across the country found that 77% think the women's movement has made life better. Only 8% think it has made things worse. Ninety-four percent said the movement has helped women become more independent; 82% said it was still improving the lives of American...