Word: censuses
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HOUSTON: President Clinton wants the U.S. Census Bureau to add "statistical sampling" to its current door-to-door method of counting Americans. But despite the rhetoric -- "It's not about politics, it's about people," President Clinton insisted in Houston on Tuesday -- this battle has been fought across the aisle for years...
...Clinton's line got a lot of applause," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "but I bet there were plenty of guffaws too." In terms of party lines, the census issue is simple: The bulk of those who go uncounted under the current system are blacks, Hispanics and the poor -- largely Democratic voters. If the census were adjusted to count more of them, those minorities would get more congressmen, more federal funding and more political attention. And President Clinton wants to be the one to give it to them...
...years ago, the C.T.A. contributed $2 million to California candidates and parties. If Prop. 226 eventually deflates union financial power, it could remake the political map of California: it could affect races for the state legislature that will control the crucial reapportionment of congressional districts following the Census...
...shrub-lined meadows and grassy marshes that abut the streams and creeks lacing the 170 miles from Cheyenne, Wyo., to Colorado Springs. That stretch of land at the foothills of the Rockies is aswarm with housing and commercial development; three counties on the Front Range are among the Census Bureau's 10 fastest growing. "We're talking about critical habitat that's almost gone," says Jasper Carlton, director of the Biodiversity Legal Foundation. "We shouldn't be building in these areas anyway. Protecting the mouse saves the environment...
Steam is an older method of heating that Harvard has used since the 1920s, but the College is by no means the only institution to maintain this seasoned process. According to Morris A. Pierce, district energy historian and energy manager for the University of Rochester, a recent census by the Department of Energy found more than 30,000 district heating systems in the United States and thousands more worldwide...