However, a poll conducted by Friends of the Earth in November suggested that 65% of 1, 000 people surveyed would be willing to pay a fee, up from 52% six months earlier.
More than one-quarter, or 28 percent of those surveyed to be exact, are going to miss the ball drop in Times Square compared to 14 percent who are heading out to a party.
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But he stressed that as those surveyed would be the first paediatricians to assess such children, especially out of hours, they needed to know how to spot dangerously underweight children and teenagers and signs of severe complications.
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Despite the sluggish economy, 36% of teens surveyed think they will be financially better off than their parents.
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It said the outlook remained negative with many of those surveyed expecting workloads to be lower in a year.
About half of the consumers (46%) surveyed indicated they will be celebrating with an excursion for brunch, lunch, or dinner.
Seventy-one percent of those surveyed said people should be allowed to protest military action, while 24 percent said they should not.
Most of those surveyed said they would be somewhat or very interested in technology that could help them operate their vehicles safer.
Caution may be the watchword but the economists surveyed do anticipate a 0.5% increase in economic growth in 2013 over the 2012 rate.
Its latest Bloomberg numbers show that 53 percent of those surveyed expect equities to be the best-performing asset class over the next year.
Fifteen percent of the CFOs surveyed said they would be willing to make cash payments to win business and 4% said they would be willing to misstate financial performance.
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The research found 65% of those surveyed thought more should be done to promote Gaelic in Scotland and 81% felt it was important Gaelic language traditions were not lost.
And 9 percent of those surveyed said John Paul would be considered a good or average pope.
It should be noted that of the five companies surveyed, State Farm was the only carrier that consistently charged the good driver lower rates in all 12 cities.
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The HSBC purchasing managers index, or PMI, is compiled after polling around 400 manufacturing firms which tend to be more export-orientated than those surveyed in the official PMI from the National Bureau of Statistics.
Just over 8% of surveyed men said they wanted to be a professional athlete.
And nearly three-quarters of those surveyed said they expect Clinton to be re-elected.
The process needs to be independent of the provider or department getting surveyed.
In China, 80 percent of those surveyed believe the next generation will be in better socioeconomic shape than the current one.
The conclusions of those surveyed in the CNN poll cannot be welcome news for the McCain-Palin campaign, but Republicans have to be happy with Palin's performance, which was gaffe-free even as it was short on substance.
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Appearance represents just a small part of it, but those surveyed said major mistakes in appearance can be detrimental.
President Obama also got some backing, as most of the surveyed economists said that spending cuts should be balanced by raising revenue through tax increases.
In October 1997, half of those surveyed said it was more important to be in the right country and only 20% said that the sector was the key.
Elsewhere, of the popular destinations surveyed, the cheapest airport taxi fares can be found in Asia.
In every country surveyed, businesses owned by multinationals tend to be better run than their locally owned peers.
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Only 4% of business owners surveyed in the Pepperdine study say this would be the most promising method of securing funds this year.
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Only 8% of the French trust their government leaders to be honest with them, while a third of those surveyed trust the government.
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More than two-thirds of those surveyed said employees of publicly traded companies should be banned from earning money by serving as expert consultants, TABB Group said.
Of the women surveyed, only 27% believed they would be able to regularly contribute to an IRA in 2011, and only 30% reported confidence in achieving their goals for retirement savings.
Some 86% of Americans surveyed believe that sex-selection abortion should be illegal, according to a 2006 Zogby poll. (The data is the latest available because the question is so rarely asked in public-opinion surveys.) It is, by far, the most-popular proposed limitation on abortion.
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