Word: medians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some 360,000 families at the poverty level from taxes altogether and softening the bite on low and middle income citizens-though only slightly. The average British family man, who earns $7,410 a year and gives up fully 20% of that in taxes (compared with 14% for the median U.S. taxpayer), can look forward to keeping an additional $3.50 of his weekly pay; that is about enough for one extra beer a day at the local...
High-income freelancers are as scarce as generous magazines. The median annual earnings of the 500 established writers of the American Society of Journalists and Authors was a modest $10,000 when they were last polled two years ago. Loretta Schwartz's articles for Philadelphia have won her a wailful of journalism awards-and an annual income of less than $7,500. Says Catherine Breslin, a now successful New York City writer who made $800 in 1975: "A freelancer lives at the end of a sawed-off limb...
...help. Last week, however, the Justice Department released a report suggesting that victims of crime may be just as responsible for such delays. The study, conducted by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration in Kansas City, Mo., showed that for 1,000 victims of major felonies, it took a median time of 6 min. 17 sec. to call the police. Many victims were said to have telephoned other people, investigated the crime scene themselves or called a private security guard before summoning police. The survey also cited "hesitancy to take personal responsibility and indecision concerning the need for police assistance." Once...
...survey, conducted by an Illinois industrial consulting firm, concludes that the median income of those who graduated from Harvard's Master of Business Administration (MBA) program ten years ago is $42,000 compared to $32,000 for a similar group of Stanford alumni, partly because Harvard MBA's tend to work in New York and Boston, where business salaries are higher than on the West Coast...
...change fast), the average woman clerical worker's salary was 62 per cent of the average man's--lower than the 68 per cent figure of nine years earlier. And the old image of the young, unmarried, female office workers is way out of date. By 1960, the median age of women clerical workers was 35, and more than half were married...