Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sustained recovery. The Commerce Department reported last week that its index of twelve leading indicators rose .4% in December-with no help from the stock market, which had a flat month at the end of last year. U.S. exports during 1975 ran $11 billion ahead of imports, according to Census Bureau figures, eclipsing the previous record trade surplus of $8.6 billion in 1947. Businessmen and investors are also encouraged by the Federal Reserve Board's willingness to exert pressure to push down interest rates; last week First National City Bank of New York cut its prime rate on loans...
Morrison's findings were strongly supported by a report issued last week by the U.S. Census Bureau showing that 85% of the nation's population growth in the past five years had occurred in 29 Southern and Western states. While Arizona was expanding by 25.3%, for example, New York State was actually losing .7% of its residents...
...national percentage of black students entering colleges is about equal to their representation in the total population, an official at the Census Bureau said yesterday...
...Census. The Moslem strike into the bastion of moneyed power has roots that go back at least to the creation of independent Lebanon. As France was quitting the area in 1943, an unwritten but carefully wrought National Covenant was adopted by Lebanese leaders in an effort to accommodate the new country's volatile religious mix of Christians and Moslems. With Christians in a slight majority according to a 1932 census, the Covenant provided that the country...
...recent years a higher birth rate has pushed the Moslem portion of Lebanon's population to an estimated 60% of the 3.2 million total. Christians responded by making it all but an article of faith to block any census that might change the original 1932 figures. Such friction might well have been enough to spark violence, but the present explosion has defied control because of still other complicating factors. Christians and Moslems alike are subdivided into sects, each headed by bosses (zu'ama) who have used patronage to build iron loyalty, as well as personal militias...