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Word: statistician (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, consider the psychological impact on the students whose grades are artificially lowered to reflect a statistician's agenda or to "discipline...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: A Gentleman's 'B+' | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...graduate of the University ofMissouri, and also studied at the University ofChicago and Bryn Mawr. She worked for the IllinoisState Department of Labor as a statistician...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruth Hibbard Romer Dies at 90; Brought Reforms to City Politics | 7/31/1992 | See Source »

...when H.L. Mencken collaborated with a statistician on three articles trying to establish the worst state in America, Mississippi won that upside-down contest, but with Arkansas and Alabama hotly contesting the bad eminence. Arkansas, near the bottom in most categories, was at the bottom for insolvency. V.O. Key Jr., in his famous study Southern Politics in State and Nation, gave the prize for fraudulent elections to Tennessee -- but Arkansas was a close second. Diane Blair, a political scientist who has written the best study of the state's constitutional structure, calls Arkansas nearly ungovernable. Yet Clinton has governed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton : Beginning Of the Road | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

...Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, the Defense Intelligence Agency last week released an internal estimate of 100,000 Iraqi soldiers killed, 300,000 wounded. But DIA said those figures had an "error factor of 50% or higher" -- to a statistician, a grotesque number. The Pentagon has little wish to refine its figures either. It has strained to avoid both the derision aroused by the body counts announced during the Vietnam War and anything that might sound like a callous boast. Some other assessments indicate the U.S. figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Many Iraqi Soldiers Died? | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

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