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...from U.S. arms and cash, come to terms, can Kirkuk's three ethnic communities find political accommodation without American assistance? U.S. officials believe it's possible. But there is no clear answer to the question, Who really has the right to decide the city's future? The last official census was in 1957, when the Turkomans had a slight edge over the Kurds, 40% to 35%. In the 1970s, Saddam Hussein sought to reorder the city's demographics by driving out some Kurds and Turkomans and busing up thousands of Arab families from the south. (See pictures of life returning...
According to Sohel Karim, the marketing consultant who presented the results, the raw data underwent “sample balancing” to align the demographics of the sample with what the U.S. Census says are the actual demographics of the community...
...prospects for a turnaround anytime soon are not good, as companies engaged in recruitment report discouraging numbers as well. Job postings from employers fell in all nine Census Bureau regions in October, according to a report released by the job search website Monster.com, whose employment index slid 10 points last month after rising in August and September. The precipitous drop, said Monster Worldwide's vice president of research, Jesse Harriott, "suggests that U.S. businesses are scaling back their recruitment due to uncertainty surrounding the global financial crisis." Other reports confirm the trend: Almost 30% of executives surveyed by the consulting...
Researchers from the CTFS will conduct a census in which every woody plant greater than a centimeter in diameter will be marked, mapped, tagged, and identified, Weiblen said...
Tootle said that, so far, there is “nothing on the ground.” He predicted the first census would be finished in two years and that the plot is “very remote...