Word: medians
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...relievers to score the same ludicrous contracts as in recent years. "Player salaries are extremely sensitive to market conditions," says Stanford University economist Roger Noll. "These players are going to get paid less next year." During the post-9/11, post-tech-bubble downturn earlier this decade, for instance, median baseball salaries dropped...
Which is not to say that Palin is any less real than Obama either. But she represents a kind of life--well-paid blue collar folks living close to the land--that has become rare and far removed from the American median. An élite, if you will...
...Sabanci Dinçer has little patience for such squabbling. Turkey has some critical tasks ahead, she says, including attracting international investment into new manufacturing projects, in order to provide jobs for its young population. The median age of Turkey's 71 million population is under 30, and millions of youngsters will be needing jobs in the future. She's more supportive of the government than many of her peers, but says the political fighting "made us lose time. It scared away some foreign investment. It's bad for the business climate, and I'm sure it affected consumers. Hopefully...
Chief Dull Knife College is small--only 141 full-time students, although a few hundred more attend workshops or study part time. The median age is in the upper 20s; some students have worked to raise money for college, while others needed time to deal with addiction and, in some cases...
Crossing the bay, the wetlands are dotted with a sofa here, a plastic garbage can there and suddenly along the causeway, a flotilla of beached, battered boats appears, awkwardly stuck in the median, wedged against highway signs, land-bound, askew and sad. Capturing the wholesale destruction of a hurricane is difficult. We learned that with Hurricane Katrina where the images, no matter how awful, were insufficient measured against the reality. The most overpowering sensation is the smell, a stench that seems to imprint itself on the brain's memory bank, suddenly wafting back hours after you have left the scene...