Word: headcounters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...century ago, Frederick Jackson Turner used the 1890 headcount as a springboard for his provocative "frontier thesis," which argued that America's distinctive culture was the result of its pioneering history. The 1980 Census chronicled the "rural renaissance" of the 1970s, when city dwellers headed for the countryside by the tens of thousands. During the following decade, America did exactly the opposite. Preliminary figures from the 1990 Census -- the final tallies won't be available until after July 15 -- depict a nation that has been growing more rapidly and in more complex patterns than ever before. And with the large...
...YORK--New York City filed a formal challenge yesterday to the Census Bureau's headcount in the city in hopes of boosting the count--and preserving federal aid that's tied to population...