Word: censuses
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...result, twentysomething people are staying single longer and often living together before marrying. Studying the 20-to-24 age group in 1988, the U.S. Census Bureau found that 77% of men and 61% of women had never married, up sharply from 55% and 36%, respectively, in 1970. Among those 25 to 29, the unmarrieds included 43% of men and 29% of women in 1988, vs. 19% and 10% in 1970. The sheer disposability of marriage breeds skepticism. Kasey Geoghegan, 20, a student at the University of Denver and a child of divorced parents, believes nuptial vows have lost their credibility...
Instead of a populist revolt, the legacy of the 1980s appears to be a widespread sense of civic alienation. This fall an estimated two-thirds of the electorate will not go to the polls. Large numbers of American households resisted sending back their census forms, and this year's tax-evasion gap is expected to exceed $100 billion for the first time ever. Faced with the largest financial fiasco in U.S. history -- a savings and loan bailout that could cost up to half a trillion dollars -- American taxpayers have barely uttered a peep. "People don't feel any sense...
...impressionistic synopsis of a recent week's worth of prime-time TV watching on all four broadcast networks. Why would anyone voluntarily subject himself to nearly 50 hours of sex-and-sass sitcoms, puerile police procedurals and yuppie yammering about the meaning of life? Call it a census of sorts, a time-slot-by-time-slot canvass of the nation's nightly fantasy life, a solitary journey up the lazy river of the collective consciousness armed only with VCR and fast-forward button. The goal was to view television through the eyes of an outsider and to pretend to encounter...
Though it's not all her fault, the Census director seems to have lost almost half of us. Only 57% of forms were returned by last week, a whole California town was forgotten, and in some places 10% of homes got no forms...
Meanwhile, California Republicans are desperate to hold on to power in Sacramento to stop the Democratic legislature from redrawing congressional districts entirely to their advantage after the 1990 census. Even conservative supporters of incumbent Governor George Deukmejian have been willing to unite behind Wilson, although it means overlooking his moderate pro-choice, pro- environment, anti-off-shore-drilling stances. Wilson heads into California's TV-heavy general election ready to deploy $16 million to $20 million, while Van de Kamp and Feinstein will already have spent most of what they have raised -- about $4 million apiece...