Word: polled
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That uncertainty showed up clearly in a poll of U.S. households taken for TIME late last month by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Fully 94% of those surveyed considered protecting the environment a very important issue, and 63% supported stronger laws and regulations to get the job done. But when it comes to financing preservation, the public is sharply divided. Of the people polled, 48% were willing to "go full speed ahead" in "spending money to clean up the environment," but 47% said that, given other national problems, it would be better to "go slow." Despite their desire for a cleaner environment...
Fears for the biosphere are still strong around the world, but the expectations of Earth Day have given way to endless debate and procrastination. A TIME poll highlights the public confusion that has helped produce the present policy paralysis...
...Society lost faith that there were solutions," says Paul Grogan, president of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a source of funds and faith for grass-roots rescue efforts. A poll by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion shows that 75% of Americans believe the homeless problem will worsen or remain the same. The irony is that the loss of hope has occurred just when hope may be at hand. In city after city, advocates of the homeless can point to programs and policies that are tailor-made, cost effective, time tested. Now if adequate funds are provided, they will know...
...feel of the hustings has got to the former vice presidential hopeful. After stumping for candidates in the midterm election, Ferraro is raising money for a poll to measure her strength against New York's Republican Senator Al D'Amato, who is up for re-election...
...eager to prescribe because medication is an increasingly powerful tool for relieving mental illness. But some critics see an ulterior motive. They contend that what the two professions are really concerned about is profits. In fact, psychiatrists have reason to worry. From 1982 to 1987, according to one poll, the proportion of counseling visits handled by psychiatrists fell from 36% to 22%, while those by psychologists rose from 29% to 34%. This summer Washington loosened psychiatrists' grip on treatment of the elderly by permitting psychologists to receive reimbursements from Medicare. In addition, the California supreme court undercut psychiatrists' authority...