Word: medians
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...join the Academy unless we have contributed large sums of money or are in the upper echelons of Hollywood society (e.g. have already won an Academy award). These rules are a problem, seeing as their application has resulted in an Academy whose members are old (median age over 50), predominately white men. That leaves a significant part of the country out of the loop. This being a democracy, the people must be spoken...
...word, Texas race-normed its admissions process. Most admitted white and Asian-American students invariably came from the top of the national pool of law school applicants. Most black students came from the lower half of the national pool. In 1992, the median LSAT score of white admitted students was at the 91st percentile; the median LSAT score of black admitted students was at the 78th percentile. More than 600 whites with higher LSAT scores were denied admission before the first black was denied admission...
...negative externality that will result from the presence of the Holmes project is homogeneity. In the past, residents and tourists alike have been able to find a wide selection of goods in Central Square. However, when nationwide chain stores enter the neighborhood to satisfy only the needs of a "median consumer" (i.e., a typical household with median income and two children), goods become homogenous and reflect fewer of the extreme tastes that are appealing to minority shoppers (e.g. rebellious teens...
With a history of high unemployment rates and a median household income of $22,647, New Bedford's city leaders were not shocked by this year's numbers...
...past decade has seen a 52% increase in the number of black managers, professionals, technicians and government officials. The gap between black and white median income is wider now than in the late 1970s--largely because blacks did not recover from the last recession as completely as whites did. Still, roughly one-third of all black households have solidly middle-class incomes of $35,000 or more, compared with about 70% of all white households. Blacks manage the department stores that once rejected their patronage. They make decisions at cor- porations where once they worked only on assembly lines. They...