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- GRAPEVINE, Page 23So What's New?
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- By SOPHFRONIA SCOTT GREGORY
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- The U.S. Census Bureau has benn quite sensitive lately to
- the question of how it releases reports, even going so far as
- to downplay the release of potentially embarrassing data. So
- more than a few eyebrows rose when the bureau went out of its
- way to make news organizations aware of some fresh statistics
- that could prove embarrassing to Democratic presidential
- candidate Bill Clinton. Census officials faxed to reporters
- rankings of states and their various measures of social and
- economic well-being, in which Arkansas ranked poorly. The bureau
- denies any political motives. It's not as if the information was
- surprising: Arkansas has long been near the bottom of the
- economic rankings.
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