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Word: censuses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cambridge's population at the last census count rose a minuscule one half of a percentage point but the percentage growth of minorities has sky rocketed, changing the city's demographic patterns dramatically...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Cambridge Population Shifts in Composition | 3/3/1992 | See Source »

...Nationalities: The 1989 Census and After--by Uri Ra'anan, professor, Institute for the study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy, Boston University. Coolidge Hall, room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

...error in a town census report lists the first grader as an 87-year-old student. Somehow, her birth date was marked as 1904 instead of 1984, and she was recorded as head of the household...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGION | 1/10/1992 | See Source »

Wait a minute, I can hear my neighbors say, we're not as slow at math as the Asian Americans like to think. There's still a glaring disproportion there. African Americans are only 12% of the population as a whole, at least according to the census count, yet they're 33% of the welfare population -- surely evidence of a shocking addiction to the dole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welfare: A White Secret | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...numbers go like this: 61% of the population receiving welfare, listed as "means-tested cash assistance" by the Census Bureau, is identified as white, while only 33% is identified as black. These numbers notwithstanding, the Republican version of "political correctness" has given us "welfare cheat" as a new term for African American since the early days of Ronald Reagan. Yet if the Lakers were 61% white and on a winning streak, would we be calling them a "black team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welfare: A White Secret | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

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