Word: medians
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Jack R. Meyer, the management company president, said he knew of no other large endowment which had performed as well as Harvard’s in fiscal 2004. He said preliminary figures indicated Harvard had far surpassed, by 17.1 percent, the median return among the nation’s 25 largest university endowments...
...bean-shaped xA and especially the boxy xB begged for attention; these were not your buttoned-down Camrys. Of course, that was the idea. Scion is the budget nameplate Toyota launched last summer to lure Gen Y drivers to showrooms, and it's getting the job done. The median age of Scion buyers is an industry-low 35 (Toyota buyers overall push 48), and 75% are new to the Toyota family...
...carefree abandon of these older riders, they tend to forsake the noise and vibration of sports bikes. Data from JD Powers show that the median age for sports-bike owners is 30, but for cruisers and touring bikes, which offer more comfort and luxury, it is 45 and 50, respectively. Older riders opt for add-ons besides a comfy seat and a windshield, like a CD player with wraparound stereo and an intercom to keep the couple connected on the bike...
...Professor of Economics Claudia Goldin and former student Maria Shim ’01 suggested that the rising median age at first marriage, proliferation of contraceptive pills and the increasing number of women pursuing “advanced academic degrees” were among the social factors contributing to the trend towards women keeping their maiden names, which they traced back to the late 1970s...
...endowment, which stood at $19.3 billion as of June 30, 2003, is consistently the envy of higher education. And HMC stunned institutional investors this past September when it announced gains of 12.5 percent for fiscal year 2003, tripling the median return for large funds...