Word: medians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Professor Peter N. Kiang '80 of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, who also spoke at the forum, said that many of the criteria used to evaluate the success of Asian-Americans are misleading. Supposedly objective measures of success, such as median family income, scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and grades can give a mistaken impression of the true position of Asians, he said...
...projections of the cocaine supply, which still amount to guesswork, nonetheless indicate that the Government's longtime effort at interdicting shipments has been largely ineffective. In fact, smugglers have become so efficient and so numerous that since 1981 the median national retail price of cocaine has declined from $115 a gram...
Under common mortgage-lending standards, people can pay three times their salary for a home price. $70,000 is three times a salary of $23,333, which is below the median income for rent-control tenants. So Proposition I really does provide a choice of affordable homeownership...
...fact, however, very few moderate-income renters today would be able to choose to buy their home. Carrying a mortgage on an average-priced home sucks up over half of the median income of a young family with children...
...time when Black median income in the United States is only 57 percent of the median income for whites, professional sports would seem to be a bastion of racial fairness and equity. After all, Blacks make up more than three-quarters of the NBA and more than half of the starters in the NFL. And with each year a greater number of Hispanics are becoming star players in major leagues baseball...