Word: medians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that patients need the right to sue because medical societies rarely drive out low-quality practitioners. If doctors cry that between 1980 and 1984 the average malpractice award jumped 63%, to $660,123, lawyers may retort that half of all awards made in that period were below an unchanging median sum of $200,000. The average annual charge for malpractice insurance coverage may have increased 79% between 1976 and 1984, but doctors' total income went up 89% at the same time...
...ratio of women to men for the current academic year is three-to-two. Seventy-seven percent of the program's students, whose median age is 29, have already earned college degrees...
Black family median income is half that of whites...
...median combined SAT scores of students accepted to Harvard is 1400, and most scores fall between 1000 and 1600 on the 1600-point scale, Evans said...
According to the report, real median family income rose by 3.3%, the greatest increase since 1972. Poverty rates for blacks, women and the elderly also declined. Despite the gains, some economists suggested that the benefits of the economic recovery were not evenly shared. Claimed Robert Greenstein, director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which has been highly critical of the President's policies: "The new Census data show that the gap between rich and poor in the U.S. is now wider than at any time since Census began collecting income-distribution data in 1947." Nor was Greenstein sanguine...