Word: poll
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...turf, Bush is sure he can beat Gore. Public education "is a bright and dividing line in this campaign," Bush said repeatedly last week. He called it "a defining issue" and (in case anyone missed the point) "a deciding issue." According to a new survey by the bipartisan Battleground Poll, Bush does about as well on the issue as Gore--44% said the Vice President would "do a better job" on education, and 42% gave the nod to Bush--erasing the usual Democratic advantage...
...recent AFL-CIO-sponsored poll of union members revealed that in 51% of working families, mothers and fathers work opposing shifts. This is one way around the child-care crunch, but the exhaustion and lack of familial connection of "ships passing in the night" parenting is hardly a solution. Parents working early and late shifts often turn to the neighbor network, sharing child-care duties with co-workers or plugging in to the tried and true low-tech child-care referral service found on bulletin boards at churches, pediatricians' offices and schools. But even when "the village" takes a hand...
...poll, published on Monday, is assembled weekly by the USILA on the opinions of 12 Division I coaches who rank each team that they feel ought to be in the Top Twenty...
Hobart (1-1), who has won 15 NCAA titles in the past three decades including nearly every title in the 1980s, also received votes in Monday's poll, but not enough to make the Top Twenty...
...China" is fading fast, and while armed conflict across the Taiwan Straits remains unlikely in the immediate future, it may have become inevitable in the long term. Taiwan's president-elect Chen Shui-bian began softening his rhetoric on independence from China even before his victory in Saturday's poll, and on Monday he called for peace talks with Beijing, an offer promptly rejected by President Jiang Zemin. The investors who bolted Taiwanese equities Monday, shrinking the value of the Taipei stock market index by 2.5 percent, may have had a savvy read of the long-term implications...