1.   American Viewpoints Inc., an Alexandria, Va.-based polling firm, conducted the telephone survey for Gingrich in late February.

2.   At the same time, John Zogby was watching events unfold from the Utica, N.Y., offices of Zogby International, the polling firm.

3.   Blendon conducted the study for the Weld administration, along with the polling firm Louis Harris and Associates.

4.   A national polling firm had contacted residents of their state to find out what the people thought about blacks going to the university.

5.   A recent public opinion survey by the leading Republican polling firm has in part sounded the White House wake-up call.

6.   According to the New York-based polling firm Public Agenda, urban administrators are more than twice as likely as their suburban counterparts to face severe teacher shortages.

7.   Adams said RCN has hired an outside polling firm to develop a customer-satisfaction index.

8.   But a recent memo from the Republican polling firm Public Opinion Strategies warned lawmakers that the GOP needs more than tax cuts and terrorism to prevail in November.

9.   Del Ali, president of the Washington, D.C., polling firm, said he would have expected Wilson to do better than second place in his home state.

10.   Hannon was monitoring election data sent to that computer from Voter News Service, the news consortium that hires polling firms to sample the electorate for the TV networks.