Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...town-at the slightest prospect of a better life. The average American family changes its residence every five or six years, much more frequently than the average European household. Now, however, there are signs that the great national game of musical houses is slowing down. Since 1970, reports the Census Bureau, the percentage of Americans who move each year has dropped from 19.1% to 17.7%, the lowest rate in more than a generation. Says the bureau's Larry Long: "As incomes rise in the U.S., more people are unwilling to give up the place, climate and recreational facilities they...
...would collapse overnight. But politically their presence is an embarrassment to the government because they outnumber the whites by so wide a margin. Now, when an urban black's theoretical homeland becomes independent, he automatically becomes a citizen of that homeland?and is even dropped from the South African census figures. In reality, of course, his life is utterly unchanged...
...authors of a proposed book on the '60s will conduct a census in downtown Boston on Oct. 19 to find out what people think happened during that decade...
...harvest-season of the Goddess of Death." He was dead wrong, of course, for as Ovid noted, once he got his mind off sex, autumn is "cum formossisimus annus"-"the fairest season of the year." Had he lived a little later, Horace might have found out from the U.S. Census Bureau that the death rate is usually lower in autumn than in winter and spring. Why? Science doesn't know, but it is quite possible that the will to live is stronger in the fall. Conversely, the will to mayhem weakens: nobody has ever worried about a Long...
...Census Bureau knows when it is whipped. In 1980, head of household will disappear from Census forms...