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Fromm also cites a poll on attitudes toward work restriction conducted by the Opinion Research Corporation in 1945, in which 49 per cent of manual workers said a man ought to turn out as much as he could in a day's work, while 41 per cent said he should not do his best but should turn out only the average amount.
From a poll conducted of the American people in December 1999, Clinton was among eighteen included in Gallup's List of Widely Admired People of the 20th century.
In 1986, in a poll conducted by GOAL magazine, he was named the most overlooked talent in hockey.
In 2005, MORI conducted an opinion poll which asked about attitudes to Trident and the use of nuclear weapons.
In December 2006, Zogby International released the results of a poll of military personnel conducted in October 2006 that found that 26 % favored allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military, 37 % were opposed, while 37 % expressed no preference or were unsure.
An opinion poll conducted by the Georgian weekly Kviris Palitra and published on April 10, 2006 suggested that Salome Zourabichvili would garner 23. 1 % of votes if a presidential election were held today.
In November 2002 OSNews conducted a poll to determine the most popular Gecko-based browser, which included several browsers for Microsoft Windows, MacOS and Linux, but didn't include Netscape Navigator and Mozilla Suite.
According to a survey released by the " Beirut Center for Research and Information " on July 26 during the 2006 Lebanon War, 87 percent of Lebanese support Hezbollah's " retaliatory attacks on northern Israel ", a rise of 29 percentage points from a similar poll conducted in February.
A 1998 poll conducted by the American Museum of Natural History found that seventy percent of biologists believe that we are in the midst of an anthropogenic extinction.
According to a poll conducted in 1947, Robinson was the second most popular man in the country, behind Bing Crosby.
" In 2010, " Alone Again Or " came in at No. 442 in a poll of the 500 greatest songs of all time conducted by Rolling Stone magazine ( it was No. 436 in the 2004 poll ).
A poll conducted by Instituto Opina found that 87. 9 % of people from mainland Spain consider the two cities to be Spanish.
In 2009, a poll of 217 Formula One drivers conducted by the British magazine Autosport named Schumacher as " the second-greatest Formula One driver who ever lived ", just behind Ayrton Senna, and the most complete driver, just ahead of Senna.
In the end a poll conducted prior to division showed that strong support remained to keep the name " Northwest Territories ".
In the United States, the ARIS 2001 study, based on a poll conducted by The Graduate Center at The City University of New York found that an estimated 140, 000 people self-identified as pagans ; 134, 000 self-identified as Wiccans ; and 33, 000 self-identified as Druids.
In a poll conducted by Ipsos-Reid following the first prorogation of the 40th parliament on December 4, 2008, it was found that 51 % of the sample group thought the prime minister was directly elected by Canadians.
A three-country poll conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion in July 2010 found that Canadians swear more often than Americans and Britons when talking to friends, while Britons are more likely than Canadians and Americans to hear strangers swear during a conversation.
The Roman census was conducted periodically in the provinces to draw up and update the poll tax register.
For example, the margin of error in polling data is determined by calculating the expected standard deviation in the results if the same poll were to be conducted multiple times.
The helmets also were changed from silver to the lighter " Seahawks Blue " color after a fan poll was conducted.
A 2000 poll of critics conducted by The Village Voice named it the 89th greatest film of the 20th century.
Still in 2004, Marge was ranked third in a poll conducted by the Opinion Research Company.
In a poll conducted by Animal Planet, the tiger was voted the world's favourite animal, narrowly beating the dog.
The film was voted number one in an audience poll of greatest films conducted by MovieMail in 2000.

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and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.
Board members indicated Monday night this would be done by an advisory poll to be taken on Nov. 15, the same date as a $581,000 bond election for the construction of three new elementary schools.
She suggests this explains the low numbers of black women who participated in the feminist movement in the 1970s, pointing to Louis Harris ' Virginia Slims poll done in 1972 for Philip Morris that she says showed 62 percent of black women supported " efforts to change women's status " and 67 percent " sympathized with the women's rights movement ", compared with 45 and 35 percent of white women ( also Steinem, 1972 ).
In 1967 Fulcher became known as Barney Bubbles, though he did not change his name by deed poll for several more years.
Deeds poll are used for this purpose in countries including the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Hong Kong and Singapore.
In the United Kingdom a deed poll can also be used to change a child's name, as long as everyone with parental responsibility for the child consents to it.
The nominees for alumni trustee are determined by a poll of the members of the Association of Alumni of Dartmouth College, selecting from among names put forward by the Alumni Council or by alumni petition.
In 2001 " American Pie " was voted No. 5 in a poll of the 365 Songs of the Century compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The dog tied for first in the reader poll with four other characters-K. K.
Before Kaye had been on the air a year, he tied with Jimmy Durante for fifth place in the Radio Daily popularity poll.
Nonetheless, a poll has suggested over 9 % may have voted differently if the conservative candidate was a man from the West, although this does not clearly show if such a candidate would have gained or lost votes for the conservatives.
Roger Ebert considers it to be the finest film on the Vietnam war and included it on his list for the 2002 Sight and Sound poll for the greatest movie of all time.
A July 2006 USA Today / Gallup poll found that 83 % of the 1, 005 Americans polled blamed Hezbollah, at least in part, for the 2006 Lebanon War, compared to 66 % who blamed Israel to some degree.
A poll in August 2006 by ABC News and the Washington Post found that 68 % of the 1, 002 Americans polled blamed Hezbollah, at least in part, for the civilian casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon War, compared to 31 % who blamed Israel to some degree.
Later, Urquhart blames Party Chairman Lord Billsborough for the leak of an internal poll showing a drop in Tory numbers, leading Collingridge to sack him.
In Australian and British English, a halter is a rope with a spliced running loop around the nose and another over the poll, used mainly for unbroken horses or for cattle.
In the 1994 European Parliament election Patricia McKenna topped the poll for the Dublin Constituency and Nuala Ahern won a seat in Leinster.
By this time, public opinion had softened on the new installation ; a poll found a fifty-six percent approval rating for the pyramid, with twenty-three percent still opposed.
According to a 2012 poll, 51 % of the Turks in Germany, who account for nearly two thirds of the total Muslim population in Germany, believe that homosexuality is a sickness.
Results of a controversial poll taken in 2006 stated that over 35 % of Russians would vote for Stalin if he were still alive.
Senator Philip Le Feuvre topped the poll in 1948 on a platform of implementing Social SecurityThe first election under the new constitution saw a struggle for dominance between the Jersey Democratic Movement and the Jersey Progressive Party, led by Cyril Le Marquand.

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