Word: medians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prices in some regions are escalating far faster than personal income, shoving more home buyers into jumboland without a paycheck to match. In Louisville, Dallas and Phoenix, prices are going up 7% to 10% a year. In Charleston, S.C., home prices rose 16% last year. In San Francisco the median home price rose 12%, to a pocket-draining $321,700. Let's put that number in perspective: to buy an average house with the standard 20% down, you would have to borrow $257,360--jum-booo...
...price. Smaller towns within the ring are submerged by crowding they might otherwise zone out. And within the dwindling buildable space of the ring, average lot size has shrunk almost in half over the past 20 years, from 13,000 sq. ft. to 6,700. Yet the median price of a single-family home has more than doubled in just 10 years, from $64,000 to $159,900. Once ranked by the National Association of Home Builders as among the most affordable U.S. cities for housing, Portland is now the third most expensive, just a bit cheaper than San Francisco...
...dinosaur with] hypertrophy of both the premaxilla and the anterior ramus of the maxilla...and has prominent epipophyses for muscle attachments. The neural spines increase in height rapidly in the middorsal vertebrae, forming a low median sail that is deepest over the sacral vertebrae." --Science
...This amendment to the state constitution would tie state legislators' base pay to the median household income in Massachusetts. 2 This law would establish a voluntary campaign spending limits that would reward participating candidates with state funds. 3 This law would reduce the state income tax rate on interest and dividend income. 4 The law--currently in effect--restructured the electric utility industry. A no vote would undo the changes. 5 Should the state representative vote for removal of a nuclear reactor on Albany Street? 6 Should the state representative vote for legislation stimulating increased production and availability of affordable...
Still, a color code might be expected in a subdivision but would be unusual for a whole city, especially one in which the median household income is fairly low, around $27,000. The mayor's plans already have emotions running high. The owner of a yellow house hired a lawyer after the city came knocking. A resident with a soft spot for hot pink (her lipstick and house matched perfectly) threatened a reporter with bodily harm when the topic of her color preferences was broached...