Word: count
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lived in Jordan W for three semesters so far, more if you count the year. I spent sleeping on the floor in friends' rooms there because I preferred it to my own dorm. Some people have been there almost four years, survivors from the pre-Fox days when freshmen lived at the Quad. Even after that, a couple of freshmen transferred in, virtually unique among their class for escaping both parents and the Yard. Many people there are on the six-year plan of studies: not college and law school but six years as an undergraduate, punctuated by leaves spent...
...function: it helps give stability, or at least predictability, to the future price of grain. That enables everyone from Nebraska wheat growers to Boston bakers to make intelligent forecasts. Each one can determine just how much he will have to spend to buy or, conversely, how much he can count on receiving for selling, grain as much as 14 months into the future. The futures contracts that are traded on the commodity exchanges enable people in the grain business, or anyone at all, to "lock in" a guaranteed future price for the commodity...
This year the bureau will take special pains to get the count as accurate as possible. The census will cost about $1 billion, compared with the $221.6 million spent in 1970. Part of the rise is due to inflation and part to the need to cover a larger population, but millions will be spent on projects like hiring community workers who are at home in crowded urban areas, where the count has been difficult to conduct. More extensive questionnaires will be used this year, and for the first time they will be available in Spanish. More money will be spent...
...hardest group of all to count accurately is the illegal aliens, who have always been considered the same as citizens in computing a state's seats in the House or its federal benefits. Estimates of the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. run as high as 12 million, compared with a rough figure of 2 million in 1970. These aliens are difficult to count because they fear that any information gathered about them will be turned over to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, which will then order them out of the country. The Census Bureau is using...
G.O.P. National Chairman Bill Brock calls the patronage approach "a blatant political effort to rig the count." Says he: "Allowing the political machine in Chicago to count the people in underpopulated districts is issuing a license to steal." Replies Barabba: "If there is an organized effort to rig the totals, our checking procedure will catch it." Perhaps. But, say Republicans, don't count...