Hasidic mantras — like the ubiquitous "Uman Uman Rosh Hashanah" — had been set to trance beats blaring from bureau-size speakers.
For example, bonus payments, which companies have increasingly used in lieu of raises, are included in personal income, although the bureau learns the size of the actual payouts only late in the year.
In 1958, the bureau designated clothing sizes in even numbers from eight to thirty-eight, with a plus symbol for fuller-hipped women and a minus symbol for slender figures.
As a result, New York City officials say, the bureau significantly underestimated the size of several groups, including Dominicans and Colombians.
Demographers for New York City, and others, believe the bureau significantly underestimated the size of numerous Hispanic groups in data from the 2000 census released last week.
Because Germany did not mount many strategic bombing raids against the Soviet Union in World War II, few early MiG interceptors saw action in their primary role, and it was only in the postwar era that the design bureau grew rapidly in size and influence.
Herd sizes, the bureau says, double every four years.
In February, the bureau released standards for sizes and shapes of online ads.
Although Bloomberg boasts 2,300 journalists in 146 bureaus worldwide, including a Washington, D.C. bureau roughly six times the size of The New York Times, the news organization still doesn't generate significant buzz outside of the financial world to match its size.
Indeed, the advertising bureau's seven new ad sizes bear close resemblance to ads that appear in columns and boxes in print publications.
Other papers are laying off reporters and editors, dismantling foreign and statehouse bureaus or literally shrinking the size of their publications to stay afloat.
