Word: medians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stocks may be faltering, but you still have a roof over your head, and that's worth a lot. The median resale price of homes rose 6% in the past year, up to $330,000 in San Francisco and $121,000 in Charleston, S.C. A new appraisal may enable you to stop paying mortgage insurance or secure a home-equity loan to shrink credit-card debt...
...Teen Research Unlimited found that 84% read magazines in 1997, so it's no wonder that the business of informing their lives, chronicling their troubles and defining their desires has become fiercely competitive. American Girl, Teen Beat and Tiger Beat have the younger age bracket sewn up. The median age of a Tiger Beat reader is 13, but girls as young as eight are snatching up the magazine. "Our readership is getting younger," says Louise Barile, editor of Tiger Beat. "It just goes back to girls' growing up faster. When they begin to get interested in boys, they graduate...
Chances are about one in three that our median man lives in Massachusetts, and it's a bit more than even money that he went to a public high school. If his father went to college, chances are again one in three that it was Harvard; on the other hand, there's only about one possibility in 35 that his mother went to Radcliffe...
...with a substance that targets a receptor for another growth factor called PDGF (platelet-derived growth factor). This receptor studs the surfaces of cells in certain ovarian, prostate, lung and brain tumors. Malkin has been testing the drug, SU101, on patients with an extraordinarily deadly brain tumor called glioblastoma. Median survival for a patient found to have this cancer is 14 months...
Guzell also opposes the redesign for aesthetic reasons. "[The median] is a focal point that can be beautiful at low cost," she said...