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...except one of those recent predecessors, Brooks had not waived his legal appeals, but waged a court fight to the end. In addition, he was the first black put to death since 1967 and the first U.S. prisoner ever legally killed by intravenous injection. With the death-row census now above 1,100 and rising annually by more than 100, it seemed that the pace of U.S. executions could soon quicken. Says Texas District Judge Doug Shaver: "1983 will bring some more. So many on death row are ripe. They've had years there and have been through...
...more subtle shifts involve regionalism, ideology and experience. A continental population shift disclosed by the 1980 census created 17 new seats in the South and West, mostly taken away from the Northeast and Midwest. That was once expected to help Republicans, but Democrats proved more adept at the fine art of gerrymandering, and so they won nine of the new Sunbelt districts. Regardless of party, however, the shift in the regional balance of power will inevitably affect the way the new House squints at the nation...
...drowning in red ink, scant attention has been paid to the fiscal health of the states. Now two studies show that there is cause for concern. While not nearly as badly off as Washington, the states are busting their budgets at an alarming rate. The Bureau of the Census reports that, while state revenues rose 12.2% to $310.8 billion last year, spending increased at a faster rate (13.1%) and overall indebtedness jumped 10.6% to $134.8 billion. Seven states (Massachusetts, Kentucky, Indiana, South Dakota, South Carolina, New Jersey and New Hampshire) could not balance their books. And according to the National...
...many Chinese does it take to complete a census...
Mailing-list brokers may suggest any of thousands of combinations of consumers. One popular strategy is to target mailings to households living in zip-code areas where the U.S. census has determined that high-income, free-spending families reside, such as New York City's fashionable Upper East Side (10021) or the ultra-upscale retirement community of Naples, Fla. (33940). The Census Bureau sells nationwide tabulations for as much as $250,000 each. Says Dallas' Horchow, whose mailing list has grown from 48,000 to 1.5 million names: "Without a solid list, a mail-order company just doesn...