Word: count
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...uproar reflects the high stakes involved in the decennial count. Population totals have long been important in the U.S. because they determine the allocation of seats in the House of Representatives and state legislatures. But with the burgeoning of federal programs like revenue sharing in the past decade, population now also affects the way more than $50 billion a year in federal funds are disbursed. If the preliminary figures hold, for example, New York City could lose four of its 18 congressional districts and $50 million annually in federal...
Several cities are taking their own census and concentrating especially on minority neighborhoods. Illegal aliens can be especially difficult to count; they often try to avoid the census takers, fearing that the data provided eventually could be used by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to deport them. (In fact, census information remains confidential and is not made available to other agencies...
Crane too was frustrated by the cycle of inattention. He blames the "liberal inclination" of the press, and he proposes that candidates who appear on television interview shows be forced to assign "a dollar value" to those appearances, which would count against total spending limits...
...22nd Olympiad promised to be a tarnished affair. As of last week, an estimated 31 countries, including Canada, Japan, West Germany, China and Kenya, were heeding the Carter Administration's call for a boycott to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. By the host country's count, 83 nations will participate. The boycott has taken the luster off such men's sports as track, basketball, boxing and gymnastics; the competition in swimming, yachting, field hockey, archery and equestrian events has become almost meaningless. Even so, the countries coming to Moscow won about 70% of the medals handed...
...stand up to the regime in the name of Christian justice. As one priest says, "The government calls a bishop a Communist, but when we see people being exploited, we have to say this is contrary to the Gospel." The toll has been high -since 1968, by church count, 122 bishops, priests and seminarians and 273 lay pastoral workers imprisoned or detained, and 84 people physically or psychologically abused. Despite the harassment, the progressive National Conference of Brazilian Bishops has become the most severe critic of the government. The church's task now, explains Paulo Evaristo Cardinal Arns...