Word: medians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enough fuel to keep its factories running and homes heated. The output of goods per hour worked has stagnated. From 1948 to 1973, the productivity of American employees increased 2.9% annually, thus permitting steadily higher real wages and higher standards of living. Last year productivity dropped .9%. The real median income of American families jumped 64% from 1950 to 1970, but has crawled up by less than 1% a year in the past decade. Weekly real take-home pay has been declining for two years. That gauge of American economic health, the stock market, has been sharply depressed...
...would be to appoint younger chief executives. They would be more likely to look at long horizons and take the creative chances that would pay big dividends on some distant tomorrow. The median age of corporate chiefs is now 59, and so they are often driven to achieve short-term results. There is too much pressure for risk-free, sure and often modest success. Unless managers know?and the public understands?that they must be free to fail in some ventures or wait for the longer-term payoff, they will never take the daring step...
...oxidizing strips of bacon by placing them on a heat-conductive surface. Photosynthesis generally meant reorganizing the family snapshot album. But opportunities have expanded. According to a study by the American Chemical Society, women graduates in chemistry now get better salary offers than their male classmates. In 1979 the median starting salary of women with a bachelor's degree in chemistry was $15,600, compared with $15,000 for men. For women who specialized in chemical engineering, the median starting salary...
...many of the screening methods on which ETS depends to ensure fairness in its exams are themselves the subject of the most heated criticism. For example, every question given on an SAT must be "pretested," a process ETS considers to be essential. ETS tries to see if the median score of students who answered the question correctly is higher than that of students who got the question wrong. This ensures that the tests will always measure the same things in the same way. Critics claim that by doing this ETS operates under the assumption that what it measures...