Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fitzgerald romanticized the business (as he did everything else) and so vastly exaggerated his census of production genius. Another writer, William Goldman, author and fixer of many a screenplay, came closer to the true figure, which is zip. NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING, he wrote, putting his dictum in capital letters in the vain hope that people would pay serious attention...
...neighborhood's poverty rate remains thehighest in the city but is decreasing. Of the 486households counted in the 1990 U.S. Census, 18.6percent lived below the poverty line, down from26.9 percent in 1980. Area Four also has thecity's highest unemployment rate, more than 10percent...
Area Four is the most diverse of the City's 13neighborhoods. According to the U.S. Census, 60percent of its residents are minority, 19 percentare Hispanic and more than a third are Black...
...into the big league. The "oldest old"-those 85 and older-make up the fastest-growing segment of the population in the U.S. and other prosperous nations. Between 1960 and 1990, while the overall U.S. population grew 39%, the ranks of those 85 and older jumped 232%. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by the year 2040, there will be 1.3 million Americans 100 years or older; some demographers put the figure at 4 million...
...altar pieces, stare back at you from the opposite wall. Replete with 19th century Harvard baseball team photographs and old maps of the square, the store is historically more interesting than any Crimson Key tour. The loft area, which counts among its decorations 1891 Harvard-Yale football tickets and census reports from the turn of the century, includes complimentary issues of Cigar Aficionado for you perusal...