Word: medians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unlike." Says Celler: "The Irish don't like to live among the Poles. It's the same situation." Last month, when A. Gordon Wright, Midwest director of the Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration and the son of a millionaire, moved into exclusive Grosse Pointe, Mich. (median income: $11,200), whites drove past his house screaming, "Nigger, get out!" When Massachusetts' Attorney General and G.O.P. Senatorial Candidate Edward Brooke tried recently to move to Milton, a wealthy suburb of Boston, he was peremptorily turned away; now he lives in Newton, an equally swank suburb...
...retail stocks and account for 65% of Merrill Lynch's business. The firm selects one of every 15 sales applicants, trains him for seven months in a program that includes McCarthy, Leness and Thomson as schoolroom lecturers. It pays salesmen a salary that is now at a median of $18,000 but ranges upwards of $200,000 for real stars. To discourage "churning"?the unnecessary turnover of stocks in a customer's account as a way of earning fees?Merrill Lynch, unlike most brokerage houses, does not pay its salesmen commissions. Instead, it gives "adjusted compensation," or extra...
However, the extramarital affair does not lead straight to the divorce court. The median divorce age in the U.S. is 32. In the 40s and 50s, divorce is major surgery, and a man is reluctant to cut that much life out of his life. Besides, time sometimes taunts the older lover with the crudest of jests. Having roused the ardor of a younger woman, he may find himself no match for her physical demands and end up more ruefully conscious of his age than when he set out to refute...
...Harlem than the other, white-owned, banks. Hudgins claims that the bank makes long-term loans to Negroes which they cannot obtain from white banks. In practice, the degree and nature of such discrimination is difficult to measure, since many Negroes who would like to borrow have low incomes--median Negro income in New York City is a little more than half that of median white income--and cannot hope to measure up to the established credit standards for long-term, low-cost loans. Hudgins firmly believes that discrimination on all loaning for large amounts or long periods is widespread...
...comedian is not a man who says funny things," Ed Wynn once said. "A comedian is one who says things fun ny. For instance, a comedian is not a man who opens a funny door - a co median is one who opens a door in a funny...