Word: medians
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...Connor. The federal ban on partial-birth abortion? Polls consistently show overwhelming support for it. Affirmative action? After the Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative-action plan in 2003, Michigan voters repudiated it in a referendum. "Any court on which Justice Kennedy is the median voter will never do anything to provoke dramatic backlashes," says Michael Klarman of the University of Virginia School of Law, "because Justice Kennedy has his finger on the pulse of Middle America even more than Justice O'Connor did." In the last week of the term, Kennedy joined...
...median first-year base salary for male members of the Class of 2007 is $60,000, compared to $50,000 for females, according to the survey results...
...between male and female wages is largest in the technology sector. The median male salary in that industry is $74,000, compared to $50,000 for females...
...Within most sectors, the gender gap is actually quite narrow. In banking and consulting, the median salary for men and the median for women are identical...
...battle over affordable housing played out between Daley and many of his doubters earlier this month in the Chicago City Council. On its face, the notion of requiring most new housing developments to reserve at least 10% of their space for people earning less than the city's median income of $75,000, as Daley and his backers proposed, would seem like a good idea. But while the ordinance would create an estimated 1,000 new affordable housing units each year, critics say it isn't nearly enough to help Daley fulfill his ambitious promise made more than four years...