Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only 20 years ago that the world's first commercially sold computer, a Univac Model I, was installed at the Bureau of the Census in Washington. Today hardly any type of commercial or human activity in the U.S. goes unrecorded, unpredicted or unencumbered by computers. The machines keep track of almost every bank check, reserve nearly all scheduled-airline seats, scrutinize every federal income tax return. Computers help to diagnose illnesses, plan radiation therapy, and map a path for the brain surgeon's scalpel. One computer has synthesized the tone of a trumpet so authentically that experts cannot...
There was a substantial increase in the number of working wives during the 1960s. Census Bureau experts expect the trend to continue and boost family income. A surprising number of women from affluent families go to work, more out of desire than need. Among wives whose husbands earn less than $5,000 a year, 45% have jobs; but so do 35% of the wives whose husbands are paid $15,000 or more, and 26% of wives whose husbands get $25,000 or more...
Accent on Newlyweds. Above all else, business opportunities in the 1970s will be affected by startling changes in the age mix of the U.S. population. Because of the low birth rate, population rose only 1.1% last year, to 206 million. Census experts envisage an increase of only 1.3% a year until 1975 and 1.4%-a-year growth until 1980 (to about 230 million). Fully one-third of that increase will come among 25-to 34-year-olds; they were born during the postwar "baby boom," and are now becoming newlyweds themselves...
...biggest urban areas is dwindling. Because suburbs have become more populous than central cities, there will be more construction of shopping centers-and more trouble for downtown department stores. The move away from big-city centers will also lead to less crowding of urban land. By the year 2000, census officials expect the population density of sprawling metropolitan areas to drop to about half of what...
...nation's expanding wealth and its enormous range of economic choices give Census Director Brown reason for optimism. "George Orwell was wrong," he says. "Everything I see indicates that we are going into 1985 in a country that is basically people-oriented, with strong individualism, a free market and a democratic society beset by many problems, but working them out in terms of human liberty and dignity...