Word: polling
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Half of Harvard undergraduates believe that most Faculty members do not care about their academic problems, while in the Ivy League generally about 35 per cent think their professors do not care, a poll of five Ivy League colleges shows...
...University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University also took part in the poll...
...Standing Committee is scheduled to consider the issue next week. A preliminary poll taken by the committee this month showed that most of the Faculty members on the five Core sub-committees oppose the pass/fail option...
...Idaho history. So far, Symms has raised an estimated $1.2 million, half of it from out-of-state conservatives. Church has accumulated $1.4 million, most of it from liberals heavily concentrated in New York. While Symms has whittled down Church's early commanding lead and a Republican poll gives him a slight edge, the race is too close to call. However narrow the winner's margin when the votes are counted, the result is sure to be hailed as a resounding victory for either liberalism or conservatism...
Opposition to Thatcher's policies had been growing steadily-until the Labor Party conference. Before, every major poll showed Labor leading the Tories by ten to eleven points. Afterward, a Gallup poll indicated Labor's lead had dropped to three points in reaction to the bitter fracas. Tory analysts take this to be only a temporary reprieve. Says M.P. Peter Tapsell, a respected Tory backbencher: "We will make a bad mistake if we assume that Labor's shambles at Blackpool guarantee us victory at the next general election [in 1984]. Electorates turn out governments, not oppositions...