Word: medians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black students now go to majority-white schools--a higher degree of segregation than existed 26 years ago, when the Supreme Court first upheld mandatory busing. In these circumstances, the N.A.A.C.P.'s. insistence on school integration appears antiquated to many young blacks--a situation that an organization with a median age approaching 50 can ill afford...
...Brown he nurtured it into a nationwide corps of 30,000 activists. He was elected to the Sierra Club's 15-member board of directors in 1994, and last spring his colleagues voted him in as president. His mission? Gen X-ing a 600,000-member organization with a median...
...days before she began work at the Justice Department, Gorelick says she read a piece in The Washington Post which listed the median tenure for the average high-ranking Justice appointee at 22 months...
...deal with perceived grade inflation, Paul suggested that the median grade for each class be included in parentheses next to the grade for that class on a student's transcript...
...combination of forces--inflation, hubris, competition, the Chivas Regal effect, perhaps even conspiracy--drove up Penn's tuition. In comparable dollars, says former president Meyerson, a year at Penn today costs about twice what it did in 1970. Yet from 1970 through 1994, government figures show, median family income in constant dollars increased only 10%. In more recent years it has actually fallen below the 1986 figure. Taken together, these trends make tuition a very painful prospect for any parent whose kid has just been accepted by Penn or, for that matter, Harvard, Yale or Princeton...