Word: polling
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...fashion, perhaps she can be comforted by the fact that Thatcher mementos are. A limited edition of 1,000 Thatcher Toby jugs -- ceramic mugs shaped in a likeness of her wearing a three-cornered hat -- moved briskly at $200 each when they were introduced in 1989. Then came the poll tax early this year, and sales vanished. Once Thatcher resigned, however, the orders jumped again, obeying Thatcher's dictum that the marketplace should be allowed to dictate demand...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 1,000 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Nov. 27-28 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus 3%. "Not sures" omitted...
GROWING discontent with Bush's military buildup demands more than ever that Congress get involved in the formulation of foreign policy. More than half of U.S. citizens, according to a New York Times poll, believe we are headed for war with Saddam Hussein. But two-thirds of us don't consider oil or Kuwaiti sovereignty--two of the Operation's professed goals--to be good enough reasons to sacrifice American lives. What began as a defensive force to protect Saudi oil has grown into a 400,000-person military presence that's ready for war. And millions wonder why Bush...
...drive. Armed with the results, the would-be buyer can renegotiate or reconsider. Says Patrick Ludwick, founder and president of the Dallas-based company: "Normally the engine or the transmission doesn't fall out. It's the smaller items that will nickel and dime a person to death." A poll of Ludwick's first 1,000 customers found an average saving of $600 a purchase...
Above all, Britons can expect some relief from the hated poll tax, a local levy instituted by Thatcher to replace the property tax. It is a flat tax on everyone in a local community, regardless of each person's income; the amount is decided by the local community, based on its financial needs. Thatcher fervently believed the old tax should be dumped because it affected only property owners, but the new assessment exacted the same amount from rich and poor alike. Nothing except perhaps Thatcher's personality provoked so much anti-Conservative sentiment among voters. The poor were as angry...