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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 1, 1992                   TAG: 9201010030
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: HOLIDAY 
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BRIEFLY . . .

The U.S. rings in the new year with 2.7 million more people than it had a year ago, pushing the population to 253.6 million, the Census Bureau said Tuesday. The bureau's projection showed a 2 percent increase over the 1990 census count of 248.7 million Americans two years ago.

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