48-Across in today’s New York Times crossword: “group you can rely on when it counts?”
Twelve letters.
I’ve referred to their work as our nation’s once-every-decade exercise in large-scale enumerative combinatorics. (Although of course they do more than just the every ten years count required by the Constitution, and their mathematically trained employees are surely statisticians.)
I’m sure, despite the government bureaucracy, we can come to a concensus on this.