Word: censuses
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...approaching millennium year 2000 is counted from the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem of Judea, in the year (so the Bible says) when Caesar Augustus decreed that a census of the world be taken. A millennial year has thus occurred only once before: fifty generations ago, in the year 1000, on what was a very different, more primitive planet earth. So this one has a strange, cosmic prestige, a quality of the almost unprecedented. The world approaches it in states of giddiness, expectation and, consciously or unconsciously, a certain anxiety. The millennium looms as civilization's most spectacular birthday...
Latinos today make up about 8 percent of the U.S. population, according to census data. This figure is projected to increase to 9.4 percent by the year 2000 and to 10.8 percent by 2010. By 2025, Latinos will be the largest group in the U.S. In California and Texas, Latinos already account for more than one-quarter of the populations. In five metropolitan areas, Latinos comprise more than half of the total population. This is reality. The study of Latino communities in the U.S. is going to be very important to the graduates Harvard turns...
Circumstances varied. Nine-term Democratic Representative Stephen Solarz of New York, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, lost to Nydia Velazquez, former secretary of the Department of Puerto Rican Community Affairs in the U.S. Solarz was partly the victim of a post-Census reapportionment that intentionally redrew his district to encourage Latino representation, which it did. But Solarz was surely hurt by his 743 overdrafts at the House bank. In Massachusetts, 127 bad checks helped do in Democrat Chester Atkins, who lost to a former county prosecutor...
According to the 1990 U.S. Census, roughly 26 percent of Americans belong to "Non-traditional families," Wolf said. Those families need support as well...
Factory orders fell in July. So did sales of new homes, which went down for the fourth time this year, despite the lowest mortgage-interest rates in 19 years. Consumer confidence has retreated 20% since June, back to the depressed levels of March. Now the Census Bureau has reported that more Americans were living in poverty in 1991 than in any other year since...