Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...viewing rights committee" was established forthwith, and Yale University Junior Alison Wondriska, 20, took a window-to-window census. Calling on small restaurants and shops as well as firms located in nearby high-rises, Wondriska determined that 1,600 windows had full views of the site. Some people gave even more than their share, and the window tax campaign raised some $8,700 within eight months. Next week Connecticut will celebrate Rededication Day to mark the completion of work on the building...
...Wall Street Journal, Church has written and edited primarily in the magazine's Economy & Business and Energy sections. "Homosexuality is about as far removed from business as you can get," says Church. "In economics writing, you can always fall back on statistics. But there is no census of homosexuals, and with so many in the closet or only half emerged, we may never know their actual number...
Today the gays lack a recognized leadership: the heads of their organizations speak for only a tiny minority of a minority, and alone among American leaders they have no census of their constituency. The Institute of Sex Research, founded by Alfred C. Kinsey, defines a homosexual as anyone who has had more than six sexual experiences with a member of the same gender. On that basis, the institute estimates that homosexuals constitute 10% of the U.S. population (13% of the males, 5% of the females). Of these, according to gay leaders, perhaps only...
...much past Feb. 11, 1979. But to the hundred or so top people in the television industry, it was Black Sunday, the costliest night in TV history. In their desperation to knock out one another during the February sweeps-those weeks when Nielsen and Arbitron take an elaborate TV census-the networks spent a reported $13 million on that Sunday night to throw their heaviest punches at one another. CBS led off with Gone With the Wind; NBC followed with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; ABC, hoping to profit from the Presley boom, countered with...
...what their unemployment rates are, Congress forces states and cities to go through a cumbersome 70-step process; many find it impossible and submit figures that are really only guesses. The commission would instead base federal aid largely on state and local figures reported every five years by the census. The numbers would always be out of date, but at least they would represent a hard count...