Word: medians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million World War II veterans enter their years of peak medical need--their median age is 73--the VA may be decreasingly able to serve them. "If you lock us into the 1995 spending levels for the next seven years, you make some assumptions almost as though there's nobody out there to treat," says Jesse Brown, Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. "A lot of people are behaving as though our veterans are already dead...
...more of the benefits were quantified--if we could say how much more bang-per-buck you would get from Windows 95 than from dos 3.0, or from a new CD player than from an old, no-frills model--the official inflation rate would be lower and median wages would then look less stagnant, if far from vibrant. Another benefit of lean, efficient capitalism is jobs; the American unemployment rate is stunningly low by European standards--half the French and Italian rates...
...forum left little doubt that Clinton plans to capitalize on the wage-gap issue in the 1996 elections. Declared Labor Secretary Robert Reich: "Income inequality and the decline in median wages will be major campaign themes" for the President. But conservatives think that the budget-balancing plan will boost the economy and that they'll get the credit. Said Stephen Moore, director of fiscal-policy studies for the conservative CATO Institute: "If Democrats talk about redistributing income and Republicans talk about economic growth, the Republicans will...
That amount was almost $20,000 less than the average research university president, whose median earnings were $295,140, and less than half of Boston University President John R. Silber's chart-topping...
Over those four years, the endowment's average annual performance was 13.7 percent. This return was two percent above the Policy Portfolio and 2.1 percent higher than the median fund as measured by TUCS...