Word: polling
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...editorial on the second page admits that for the first time, "In October 1989, a Gallup poll reported that more Americans agreed than disagreed that homosexual relations between consenting adults should be legal." That if far from saying that most Americans support homosexuality...
...Sweden, 13 in Italy, 9 in Belgium and Austria, and 2 in Luxembourg. In Eastern Europe, which is barely percolating with democracy but stuck at the center of the world's worst swath of industrial pollution, anxiety over the environment has quickly moved to the surface. A poll released this month on Czechoslovak television showed that 83% of respondents considered the environment the "first priority" for the new government. In Cracow, Poland, residents last month elected the first Green Party mayor of any large city in Europe and forced the local Nowa Huta steel mill to agree to shut down...
...surprise is the breadth and depth with which the nation has reasserted its greenspiritedness less than a decade after electing Ronald Reagan, a President clearly hostile to environmental interests. In one recent poll some 80% of Americans said they would support more strenuous environmental efforts regardless of cost. But better measures of the nation's sense of urgency about preserving the planet are the stories of people like Lynda Draper, 40, whose fight against ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbon emissions began in the kitchen of her Ellicott City, Md., home early last year. "I was basically a PTA volunteer," says Draper, until...
Though Cincinnati's reputation for conservatism is well deserved -- "Decency Central," local columnist Jim Rohrer calls it -- the city is hardly unique. Says Alfred Tuchfarber, a University of Cincinnati pollster: "Hamilton County tracks the nation perfectly on major social and moral issues." A poll released Friday by the Cincinnati Post and Tuchfarber's Institute for Policy Research showed that 58.9% of those questioned thought the Mapplethorpe exhibit should be allowed. Only 38.4% felt it should...
Yale Sucks, Part II--That friendly rivalry is alive and well in the Yard, too. According to a very unscientific poll of pre-frosh this week, even those prospective members of the Class of 1994 who are not completely certain about their college choice know better than to head south. "I didn't see a lot of trees when I was at Yale," lamented Molly Confer of Lincoln, Neb. "Why would anyone like Yale?" asked Rachel J. Storch, who hails from St. Louis...