Word: barabba
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...responsible for sending out the final questionnaires is Census Bureau Director Vincent Barabba. Now on leave from his job as director of market research at Xerox Corp., he had headed the bureau from 1973 to 1976 under the Nixon and Ford Administrations, and was brought back by Carter last June. One major problem he faces is hiring enough enumerators. Though they all are supposed to report to local offices on April 18 for three days of training, last week the bureau was still about 15% short of its recruiting goal...
...decimal point. A growing number of people are worried about the accuracy of the tally because so much-political power as well as the distribution of billions of dollars in federal funds-is riding on the outcome. The nose count will not begin until April, but Census Director Vincent Barabba already predicts that it will be the "toughest and most scrutinized ever. Everyone is going to be watching...
...which was passed with his active support, extended the merit system for the selection of Government workers. But Carter is allowing local Democratic organizations to recommend a large number of the 275,000 census takers. "We will ask Democratic politicians for lists of recruits, but not Republicans," says Barabba, who happens to be a Republican. Appointed originally by President Richard Nixon, he served as census director from 1973 to 1976, and was renamed to the job last June. Barabba defends the 1980 hiring process on the grounds that the jobs have always been handled on a patronage basis. He argues...
G.O.P. National Chairman Bill Brock calls the patronage approach "a blatant political effort to rig the count." Says he: "Allowing the political machine in Chicago to count the people in underpopulated districts is issuing a license to steal." Replies Barabba: "If there is an organized effort to rig the totals, our checking procedure will catch it." Perhaps. But, say Republicans, don't count...