41.   He also concedes that public attitudes about smoking are shifting.

42.   However, Kerekes said the Newsweek poll was similar to Nuclear Energy Institute polls that he said show improved public attitudes toward nuclear energy.

43.   In addition to clashing legal theories, changing public attitudes may steer the course of the controversy, legal experts say.

44.   In both Europe and the United States, Esposito said, public attitudes toward Islam are gradually improving, with apprehension giving way to a greater acceptance.

45.   In an agriculture committee hearing in May, Haas apologized for conducting politically tinged focus groups in Topeka and Indianapolis on public attitudes toward food stamps.

46.   In the face of such mixed signals and mixed public attitudes, Clinton is once again searching for the middle ground.

47.   In the first four months of Republican control, public attitudes about Congress were much higher than they are today.

48.   It is an article of faith among GOP strategists that public attitudes will turn around once a budget balancing agreement is forged.

49.   Kennedy challenged the contention that the tobacco industry has suddenly adopted a new and responsible public attitude.

50.   Karlyn Bowman, a researcher at the American Enterprise Institute, has detected a shift in public attitudes against abortion, and she attributes it to three things.