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Show Statistical abstract now available The 1988 version of the nation's best-selling annual statistical roundup has been published by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau. It's the 108th edition of the "Statistical "Sta-tistical Abstract of the United States," offering a continuing portrait por-trait of the people, institutions, and trends in America. It is used by students and teachers, journalists, government workers, the business community, and the just plain curious. cu-rious. The new version contains 970 pages and 1,425 tables and graphic charts, with, more than a million statistics drawn from both public and private sources. It has 100 new tables on topics such as population projections, the elderly, AIDS cases, child care arrangements, disposable personal income, mortgage mort-gage delinquency, minority-owned business firms, and residential energy expenditures. As a convenient guide to other statistical publications and sources, the 1988 edition contains a telephone contact list and a new listing of selected foreign statistical abstracts. It also includes a special section on a variety of state rank ings. Copies of the 1988 Statistical Abstract Ab-stract may be purchased for $25 each prepaid for the paperback edition edi-tion (GPO stock no. 003-024-06707-2) or $30 for clothbound (GPO Stock No. 003-024-06708-1) from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, or from GPO bookstores in major cities. Holders of a MasterCard, VISA, or GPO account number may phone in orders to (202)783-3238. A pocket-size insert, "USA Statistics Sta-tistics in Brief," is included at no cost in each copy. |