According to a public opinion survey conducted by The Hill, a Beltway based magazine covering Congress, nearly half (47 percent) of likely voters believe it is now completely impossible for them to become rich in the course of their lifetime.

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In a Palestinian public opinion survey released last week by The Israel Project, 65 percent of Palestinians said they believe that they should conduct negotiations with Israel.

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In Islamabad the British high commission noted a secret public-opinion survey of 2005 that showed that Mr Musharraf, the West's Pakistani ally against terrorism, would lose the next election to Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party.

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Affronted Brits might draw some comfort from a recent survey of American public opinion by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, which found that Britain was the second most popular foreign country among Americans, just after Canada.

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Nearly one-third of the respondents to our new public opinion survey have deserted a news outlet because it no longer provides the news and information they had grown accustomed to.

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It carried out a phone, online and paper survey of public opinion on how to meet that target.

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Public opinion on the proposals is now being sought via a survey before taking the scheme forward.

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