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Census officials are not at all surprised by the commotion. Slip-ups are just about inevitable in an undertaking as gargantuan as this year's $1 billion effort to reach the nation's 86 million households and then process the answers contained on 120 million forms. It is to uncover major inaccuracies that the bureau decided to issue tentative findings this year. The disclosure is part of a new review process in which the early field counts, along with the maps of housing units used by census takers in making their tally, are being sent to the nation...
Mother was right: stand up straight. Keep the body relaxed but erect, although not in the ramrod West Point style. Throw back the shoulders, keep the abdomen pulled in. As a check, stand with heels, buttocks, shoulders and head pressed firmly against a wall. If you can barely slip your hand between the wall and the small of the back, mother should have no reason to complain...
...call comes in to the central ambulance station at 10 Koptelsky Lane. One of 34 telephone operators notes on a lavender slip of paper the time, name, address and problem-chest pains and dizziness. The slip is relayed to a second room of dispatchers who stay in constant touch with the 36 ambulance substations in the city. Most substations serve a radius of two to three miles, but there are specialty brigades in such disciplines as cardiology that cover the city at large...
...Corsaire. But wait. Up onstage were none of the usual Bolshoi Ballet stars, no Plisetskayas or Vasilyevs, no familiar figures at all. In fact, although the dancers showed flashes of the rigorous technique and expressive line that mark the Bolshoi style, there was here and there an unaccustomed slip, a slack fouetté, a leaden lift. What, then, accounted for the electric atmosphere in the theater? Why was the audience applauding so encouragingly, pointing out dancers and scribbling notes in programs...
...downer. He said it offered hardhats from the nearby refineries a chance to escape from their harsh, boring, workaday reality into a fantasy that was simultaneously readymade and hand-me-down. Duding up each night in western duds that no working cowboy would ever wear, the clock punchers also slip into a set of values that are as impractical for modern urban life as a pair of chaps. For a little while each night in Gilley's, they can play at being tough loners who like their whisky rough and their women silent, pliable and indifferent to indifference...