Word: polling
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Many Catholics believe the time has come for the hierarchy to consider ordaining married men, or perhaps even women. As the synod was concluding, an Italian newsmagazine poll reported that 53% of the country's Catholics favor a married priesthood. In the U.S., priest-sociologist Andrew Greeley, himself no opponent of celibacy, claims that a change in the requirement "would probably lead to the ordination of 1,500 more priests a year...
...least dangerous drugs, they claim, and ignores the far more serious problems posed by alcohol in Alaska. More fundamentally, argue ads launched by Alaskans for Privacy this month, the campaign is "about the government telling you what you can eat, drink or smoke in your own home." Poll tallies taken before the latest privacy offensive show the anti-pot initiative passing...
...While the candidates have been slashing with equal vigor, Williams' ads have had far more visibility because he has outspent Richards $17 million to $11 million. A self-made success in oil and ranching, Williams threw $6.5 million of his own into the pot. Yet last week a Gallup poll showed that his lead of 10 points had diminished to 5 since September. The survey indicated that Williams has slipped to 45% while Richards was holding steady...
Despite a poll that said 90% of Brazilians did not consider the affair sufficient reason for dismissal, President Fernando Collor de Mello was worried that the scandal might damage his administration's credibility. His sensitivity is understandable: three weeks ago, a woman from the state of Alagoas claimed that the President was the father of her 10-year-old son. Last month a candidate for governor in the state of Rio Grande do Sul was hurt by allegations from his former wife that he had deserted their three children. And in the state of Amazonas, gubernatorial candidate Gilberto Mestrinho...
...Economic Advisers; Peter C. Goldmark, Jr., Rockefeller Foundation director, Roger B. Porter, chief domestic policy adviser to the Bush Administration and IBM professor of business and government at the Kennedy School; and Neil L. Rudenstine, executive director of the Mellon Foundation and former Princeton provost, are in the poll...