Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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That slogan will start bombarding Americans this week from sea to shining sea as the great decennial head count begins. Ministers, priests and rabbis will be preaching it from their pulpits on "Census Sabbath" and "Census Sunday." Put to music, the slogan will blare from radios in Spanish, Cantonese, Russian, Greek, Vietnamese and 26 other languages in addition to English. On TV, the census will be plugged by Kirk Douglas, José Ferrer, Elvin Hayes, Roger Staubach, Mickey Mouse and a cast of thousands. Just in case someone might manage to remain blissfully ignorant of the effort to get every...
...campaign is extraordinary, so is the importance of the final tabulations made by the U.S. Census Bureau. When the results are sent to the President at the start of next year, as the law requires, the shifts in population will determine which states gain and lose seats in the House of Representatives, and they could affect the redistricting of state legislatures and even county and city councils. The census findings are the basis for allocating more than $50 billion in federal funds to states and localities. They provide source material for business and industry about the changing composition and needs...
Weeks before the start of a sedition trial of seven political opponents of Taiwan's one-party regime, human rights activists predicted that the hearing would be a travesty of justice. Leading U.S. law professors, scholars and writers fired off protests and pleas for leniency to Taiwanese President Chiang Ching-kuo. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark denounced the "brutal use of martial...
...work very well. Americans invented themselves in the first place, and then were interminably reinvented by the rest of the world. Perhaps more than most peoples, they need to possess an idea of themselves, a myth of themselves, an ex planation of themselves. It is time for them to start inventing and imagining again...
Early this year the two companies began tightening credit reins. Previously, shoppers were given a free ride on charges until the end of the month. Now interest will start on the day of purchase on accounts with balances outstanding...