Word: medians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...streamlined, cost-efficient operation. The agency has adopted a pragmatic approach to promoting long-term self-sufficiency in 60 developing nations. While most of the volunteers 20 years ago were young, liberal-arts-educated generalists, the Peace Corps now attracts specialists in forestry, agriculture, health and engineering. The median age has risen from 23 in the 1960s to 28 today. Volunteers make an average of $215 a month plus expenses during the usual two years of service. The total number of volunteers has remained at about 5,500 since 1981, far below the peak...
Truck buyers are young-the median age is around 33-and about one-third of new owners between the ages of 20 and 30 are women. Joan Cheek, of Simi Valley, Calif., passed along her 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass to her son, and now commutes to her job at a hospital in a 1984 Chevy S-10 pickup. Says she: "A lot of women are driving trucks now. It's the thing." Cheek finds her truck handy for carrying groceries and hauling tree trimmings to the dump. She plans to add a metal cap (average price: $270) to cover...
TWENTY-ONE PERCENT of last year's seniors pulled off an amazing double feat--they had below median grades and they graduated with honors. Such is the end result of Harvard's system for distributing honors, a system that is increasingly growing out of sync with the ostensible purpose of the practice--rewarding superior performance...
...these people inching toward work or back from it spend more of their income on retail goods than people do in any other city. This city is ranked 97th in what Sales & Marketing Management magazine calls median household after-tax "effective buying income" ($23,655), yet it is first in retail sales. New Yorkers spend 37% of their effective buying income on retail goods; Angelenos spend 48%. In 1982, in Beverly Hills, where the figure has to be skewed by out-of-town buyers, $143 million was spent on clothing, $72 million on cars, $96 million on general merchandise...
Promoters planted the first palm tree here in the 1880s. At the same time, real estate agents were known to pin oranges on Joshua trees, claiming this had been a terrain given over to orange groves since beyond memory. At the beginning of this year, the median sales price for an existing house in greater Los Angeles was $114,200-in the nation, it was $71,800. But who can find a "median" home? The other day, on a quiet street in Santa Monica, a FOR SALE sign went up in front of a three-bedroom, one-bath, fake stucco...