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...census shows a shift...
...certainly as the sun rises, Americans are moving from the North and Midwest to the South and West. Preliminary 1980 census figures released last week indicated a U.S. population of 226 million, up 11% over 1970. Most states in the North and Midwest had increases below the national average. The two regions will lose an estimated 16 seats to the West and South when the census is used to reapportion the 1982 Congress. If, that is, the troubled head count is ever finished. A fire in Brooklyn destroyed New York returns; a recount is under way. A federal judge...
...wave of settlers has by no means crested: the Census Bureau predicts that during the 1980s, seven of the eight Mountain States will be among the country's ten fastest growing states (the one exception: Montana, which will rank seventeenth).* Within the next 20 years, the population of the region is expected to grow...
...WOMEN FACULTY CENSUS 1979-80 (as a percentage of the faculty) Tenure Ladder Other Total HARVARD 3.4 19.8 37.4 13.5 MICHIGAN 6.8 25.0 28.6 10.3 M.I.T. 5.2 17.2 9.7 PRINCETON 3.7 20.4 25.0 10.9 STANFORD 6.3 25.7 10.9 YALE...
...Winners should be described as 'estimated winners.' Avoid any reference to 'calling' races or 'declaring' winners. Do not refer to estimates as 'projections.' " How will the computer know what "estimates" to make? Mitofsky, a former Census Bureau statistician, has selected 4,000 key precincts nationwide to show him what is happening in each state. A CBS employee in each of those precincts will phone in results to a bank of computer-terminal operators in a soon-to-be demolished Manhattan warehouse. If this information seems to add up to a clear victory...