Word: medians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...particular concern, according to Knowles, is the future of financial aid. A growing gap between college tuition costs and median family incomes, a decrease in governmental loans and grants and heightened scholarship competition among universities are some of the most serious dilemmas facing the Faculty, he said...
...size, however, is one of GM's greatest burdens. Because of arrogance and inertia, GM has fallen out of touch with its customers. Except for products of GM's Saturn and Pontiac divisions, young drivers increasingly spurn the company's cars for Japanese makes or other U.S. models. The median ages for buyers of GM's bread-and-butter midsize lines are 45 for Chevrolet, 55 for Oldsmobile and 60 for Buick. By contrast, the ages of U.S. buyers of Japanese cars range from 35 to 40. GM has foundered while the more nimble Ford and Chrysler, which had long...
...stark contrast with Choi's skewed presentation, lists the Chinese poverty rate as 11.5 percent, the Korean poverty rate as 12.5 percent, with the Japanese poverty rate only at a low 4.2 percent. Severely under-represented Asians such as Laotians experience a 67.2 percent poverty rate. Furthermore, the median income of, for example, a Southeast Asian (Vietnamese) family lies 35 percent below the national average...
Turk also said most tenants are actually below the state median income and that in addition to providing affordable housing, rent control has "stabilized the neighborhoods" and prevented complete gentrification...
...gets painful after a while, like watching people who can no longer control their actions: the drunk bellying up to the bar for one last drink to keep the other 10 company. We could just as well put people to work weeding the median strips on the interstates or digging holes and filling them back up, but we make weapons, so when we want to employ people, we make more weapons; any other form of publicly sponsored employment is derided as "leaf raking" and possibly socialism...