Word: medians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposals; and a computerized reference guide known as the Bibliographic Retrieval System. Delegates had only to press a few buttons to plug into storehouses of information containing such items as the Supreme Court's decision in Regents of the University of California vs. Allan Bakke, or the 1978 median income of U.S. families. Many of the retrieval systems are now available mainly to scholars and businesses. But Participant Nicholas Johnson, a former Federal Communications Commissioner, argued that libraries should spread access to this data among the citizenry. Manhattan Attorney Whitney North Seymour Jr. agreed: "A dramatic change in information...
...Florida men had a median sperm density of 60 million per milliliter, compared to a median 100 million for men in a 1929 study...
...Kaiser Permanente hospital in a contract squabble with the big health maintenance organization. In Denver, municipal nurses are now suing the city, charging sex discrimination in salary scales.* Nurses in Denver make less than, say, a trainee traffic-signal repairman. An even greater disparity exists with doctors, whose median income is now more than $65,000 a year...
...twelve months through May, the median price of new one-family houses jumped 13% to $62,900, and the National Association of Realtors expects roughly the same size rise this year. Prices of old houses are moving up just as rapidly. The average mortgage rate for a new home has jumped from 9.1% in January 1978 to 10.7% last month and is rising faster than at any time since...
...Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates that in 1970 half the people in the U.S. could have afforded to buy a median-priced new house -then $23,400-by the normal credit rule that they spend no more than 25% of their pretax income on mortgage payments...