Word: censuses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tools were census records, property tax records, baptismal records, birth and death certificates, wills—virtually anything that the series’ staff of professional genealogists could get its hands on. Gates described the research as “an extraordinarily painstaking process...
...From Afghanistan to Egypt, not one country that has had an election in the past year has emerged more stable as a result of the experience. In Iraq, three elections-the last one little more than a "census," in the words of Iraqi journalist Nibras Kazimi-have increased the probability of partition or civil war and installed a corrupt, Iran-leaning government of religious conservatives, which will undoubtedly remain in power when the new "permanent" government is formed. In Afghanistan, elections have brought narco-warlords to positions of significant power. Even the Potemkin elections in Saudi Arabia and Egypt resulted...
...Straight, Cohen, Moskowitz, Toussaint, and others—a word-of-mouth search found 11 current Harvard seniors who are engaged—do not a trend make. Over the last few decades, people in the United States have started to marry later, according to statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau. The median age at first marriage was 20.8 for women and 23.2 for men in 1970, 23.9 for women and 26.1 for men in 1990, and has increased to 25.3 for women...
...According to 2000 U.S. Census, 32.5 percent of Louisiana’s population is black...
...person, makes life for the multiracial individual more difficult than it ought to be. Many institutions have come to understand the importance of racial complexities and have accommodated the need to “check all that apply.” For example, after much debate, the Census Bureau finally allowed respondents to identify all their racial groups on the 2000 Census. Even the common application for college admissions allows students to check more than one racial box. Multiracial students can breathe sighs of relief at not having to choose one parent over another and not having to superficially base...