Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rate is now the highest in the state. Atlantic City has 7,472 casino hotel rooms, but its housing stock is down by about 15% since 1980. The casinos have created 41,000 new jobs -- more than the city's population -- but the welfare rolls are up, and the number of overnight guests at the Rescue Mission has swollen from an average of 25 in 1976 to 220 today...
...healthy local economies, some black mayors became preoccupied by the needs of the middle class, black and white, at the expense of poorer constituents. During Maynard Jackson's two terms as mayor, from 1974 to 1982, Atlanta became a symbol of New South prosperity. In the 1970s, however, the number of black households in the city classified as poor actually increased by almost a fourth, to 31%. But Jackson jolted the local white establishment by aggressively demanding that black businesses get a share of city contracts. As a result, his tenure is so fondly remembered that when he decided...
...path to West Germany's door in the past. According to polls conducted for the Ministry for Intra-German Relations, more than half of the refugees are under 30, and only 17% are over 40. Surveys showed that fully 86% have vocational or professional training, and an equal number held down professional jobs in East Germany. All of those polled owned television sets back home, almost two- thirds owned private cars, and 15% had weekend homes...
...newspaper story. Other questions aroused Wilkinson's interest as a reporter. Among them: Is it not odd that a major domestic cash crop should be so heavily dependent on imported black labor? What is going on down there? For the next four years, Wilkinson paid a number of visits to South Florida trying to find...
...original concept, developed in the mid-'60s by Lofti Zadeh, a Russian-born professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, is that things in the real world do not fall into the neat, crisp categories defined by traditional set theory, like the set of even numbers or the set of left-handed baseball players. In standard Aristotelian logic, as in computer science, membership in a class or set is not a matter of degree. Either a number is even, or it is not. But this on-or-off, black-or- white, 0-or-1 approach falls apart...