Data trends show regions with educated residents and single demographics
The piece notes top education regions like Los Alamos and Falls Church and high single-person percentages in Williamsburg Lexington and West Feliciana. It argues data from demographics firms guides business decisions from banks to shopping malls and hospitals, with examples of market targeting and Candlewood Lake’s development.
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Los Alamos
N.M
Falls Church
Montgomery
Williamsburg
Lexington
West Feliciana
Virginia
Bryant Robey
Donnelley Marketing Information Services
Stamford
Conn
Hidden Lives of the Homeless Women of New York
A Pacific News correspondent recounts the plight of about 6000 women who sleep on New York streets each night with only 600 beds available. Esther Cohen profiles Goldy, an outdoor resident of the Upper West Side who speaks a rough mix of Yiddish and other languages and has no easy path to shelter.
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New York City
PNS
Esther Cohen
Pacific News
Rnce
Goldy
Upper West Side
Manhattan
The Bag Lady And I
A narrator encounters a homeless woman who claims an apartment promise and arrives with bags of orange peels and tissues. After a tense wait in the apartment the woman emerges seeking shelter and offers a $20 bill to stay, but the narrator has no space.
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Goldy
Taking Risks AIDS Helpers Reach Out To Victims
In New York City, Gay Men's Health Crisis aids 250 people with AIDS while volunteers like William Carroll visit Stephen Lamb, a dying patient. The group, formed two years ago, grew from six founders to a 1984 budget of 900000 with 500 volunteers and 12 staff, reflecting a more mature and politically aware gay community facing stigma and death.
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Porter
Maureen Dowd
New York Times
York
RY Stephen Lamb
Lamb
New York University Medical Center
William Carroll
Carroll
New York
East Side
John Keats
Andrew Marvell
Stephen
Bill
Chelsea
Rodger McFarlane
Douth
McFarlane
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Candlewood Lake
Connecticut
Candlewood
Sylvia Porter
Universal Press Syndicate
Ruoney
U.S
Offic
Mmo
Antic
Biow Grees
East North Central
the Bag Lady
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