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...began building up his mass of data-currently called PINS (Political Information System)-in 1968 when he conducted his first polls for Reagan, who was preparing to run for re-election as Governor of California. In the years since, Wirthlin has been expanding the bank steadily, adding dollops of census data and studies of voting history to the results of his own polling. In the latest survey, finished just before Labor Day, Wirthlin's agents interviewed 7,000 people, five times the size of the typical Gallup or Harris sample, investigating not only overall preferences but trends...
...conclusion of the study: schools must pay more attention to the problems of one-parent children. According to the Census Bureau, 48% of children born this year will spend a considerable amount of time in a one-parent family...
...Palestinians, who are pitted against the Christian militia, represent the fighting edge of a leftist, largely Muslim coalition that calls itself the National Movement. The Muslims, who probably constitute a majority of Lebanon's population-no one can be sure since there has been no census in 48 years-have been strongly influenced by the P.L.O. ever since the end of the civil war, when the Palestinians emerged as a powerful state within a state, controlling most of southern Lebanon...
...census figures that will confirm the shrinkage or stagnation of many cities will also undoubtedly show small town America growing at a faster rate than the country as a whole...
These figures are based on current college enrollment statistics and 1970 census figures for nine- and ten-year-old males...