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This decade's census is one of the biggest, costliest and most ambitious statistical exercises in history. Using 120 million forms, 5,000 tons of paper and 85 tons of ink, the survey will amass and tabulate more than 3 billion answers and record them on 5,000 miles of microfilm. To process this avalanche of data, the Census Bureau has had to design (and patent) special scanning equipment that will be plugged into a giant UNIVAC 1100 computer around the clock for months. Meanwhile, an army of 250,000 census takers, or "enumerators," and 15,000 office workers...
...continue borrowing, will go bankrupt. Their demise in turn may shake some thinly capitalized banks that will be stuck with "problem" loans. Says Don Jacobs, dean of the Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University: "We are headed for a paralysis of the financial markets. We will see red ink throughout the financial industry. It could be a disaster. For the first time in my life I am really concerned...
...ink already is a reality in parts of the auto and housing industries. Sales of U.S.-made cars have dropped 15% below a year earlier since the new model-year began in October. Automakers have slashed production...
...Hampshire, the Manchester Union-Leader is, not surprisingly, pouring buckets of ink behind Reagan. Meanwhile, over at his Concord, N.H., headquarters, staffers seem uneasily confident. Two people man Regan's Concord headquarters; an enormous man in a black leisure suit, hand scratching his expansive belly, and an exceedinly elderly woman, a little worried that someone has stopped by to talk...
Military historians have spilled much ink on the difficulties of pushing the German army out of Italy. Mowat writes sparely and in the blood of his friends. They fall by the score while crossing exposed rivers and valleys, and stumble upward to their deaths during assaults on heavily fortified mountaintops. Spandaus and Schmeissers perforate them; eighty-eights and "Moaning Minnies" dismember them. The term "enfilading fire" recurs. It means that the enemy can spray shells and bullets up and down one's position as if he were watering a garden...