Word: polled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always seem particularly sobering in the wake of the holidays -- after those Thanksgiving dinners, Christmas parties and New Year's revelries have conspired to undermine whatever remained of the previous year's resolutions. But this year the situation may be worse than ever. According to a CNN Prevention magazine poll of 771 Americans taken just before the holidays, nearly 70% said they planned to go ahead and eat whatever they wanted. Most took it for granted that they would put on weight -- nearly 5 lbs. on average. Fully 40% also said they expected to take...
Drive-through windows and 7-Elevens just make things worse. Takeout-food consumption climbed sharply in the 1980s -- up about 13%, according to a Roper poll -- as Americans found themselves with less and less time to prepare meals. That represents a triple whammy on the waistline: 1) takeout food tends to be high in fat, carbohydrates, sodium and calories; 2) it tends to be eaten quickly, which means more of it is consumed; and 3) it tends to get eaten, all of it, no matter how much of it there is. "I've found that people have no idea what...
...England teams, two state schools forty-one miles apart atop the national poll, have brought basketball back from the Wild West and Tobacco Road to its birthplace. Nothing could be finer for a fan born and raised in Connecticut and living in Massachusetts...
Political apathy among college freshman has grown significantly since the 1960s, a new poll by the University of California-Los Angeles finds. Only 31.9 percent of all freshmen enrolled in classes in the fall semester of 1994 said that "keeping up with political affairs" is an important goal in life -- the lowest rate in the survey's history. The percentage of freshmen who said they often discuss political affairs also reached its lowest point, at 16 percent...
With both Penn and Princeton rated higher than the Crimson in a preseason poll, this weekend should give the team its first opportunity to demonstrate its ability against Ivy League competition...