1.   The California Public Education Partnership, a coalition of nonpartisan organizations trying to improve schools, commissioned the poll.

2.   Morris commissions a poll and sends the bill to a friendly general in the Peoples Department of Purloined Nuclear Secrets in Beijing.

3.   Morris said that while he was in the White House, the president commissioned polls almost every week to measure public sentiment.

4.   Official polls are banned in the run-up to the elections though some banks have commissioned private polls, traders said, that showed the communists gaining ground.

5.   Polls were commissioned.

6.   The Beijing Youth Daily commissioned a poll on attitudes towards Japanese goods.

7.   The paper commissioned a poll that showed, not surprisingly, that black and white South Africans generally feel better about each other than they did before the election.

8.   The poll was commissioned by the Connecticut Association of Scholars.

9.   The poll was commissioned by the Freedom Forum, a pro-First Amendment foundation.