Word: medians
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Weld's plan gives limited protection to anyone earning less than 60 percent of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) median-income guidelines, and for elderly and disabled tenants earning less than 80 percent of the guidelines...
...cutting the payroll-tax rate and requiring workers to invest the savings. Any money saved by such reforms could be used to reduce the budget deficit. But Washington politicians will be more tempted to cut taxes, especially in a way targeted to working families near the median income of $37,000 a year, whose real wages continue to slide despite robust growth in the overall economy...
Orange County is far wealthier than Cuyahoga, of course, and therein lies one of the ironies of the Southern California area's financial fall. With a population of nearly 2.6 million and a median household income of $47,774, Orange is the fifth largest county in the U.S. and boasted the fourth richest county government before the crisis. As famed for its political conservatism as for Disneyland and aerospace giants like McDonnell Douglas, Orange County was the birthplace of Richard Nixon and gave Ronald Reagan the largest margin of victory of any U.S. county in his presidential races...
...think we might take a step in the right direction by making some changes to the transcript, mainly by reporting the median grade on the transcript as well as the student's grade in that class," Hall said...
There is never any question about her technical facility in either the Sibelius or the Bruch, for she is arguably the finest technician of her generation, but she remains inexplicably aloof from both of them. The Sibelius is a tepid performance at best-tempi cluster around a comfortable median, and the soul is left wanting, in spite of flawless execution. There is absolutely no magic from her first entrance in the Sibelius, and her tone simpers more than it captivates. During the most dramatic moments of the piece, one wonders whether she is capable of producing anything outside...