Word: medians
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...these women? The median millionaire woman next door is 49 years old, a wife (nearly 40% have been married more than once) and a mother. She wakes up each morning at 5:58 a.m. and crashes at 10:32 p.m. In that window, she logs 49 hours a week doing work she enjoys and spends three to four hours a week at the gym. Her average annual income is $414,000, which represents 71% of her household's income. She has probably been through college (and about half the time paid her own way), and she owns her own home...
Indeed, while you may not have noticed your raise last year (if you even got one), senior executives felt theirs. Median compensation for CEOs of companies in the S&P 500 rose 27% in 2003 on top of an 11.4% hike in 2002, according to the latest pay survey by the Corporate Library. Other surveys, which don't account for exercised stock options, found just single-digit increases in salary and bonus. And, yes, corporate profits rose sharply during 2003, up 18%. But that wasn't the case in 2002, and the gap between pay for the average worker...
...claim an exclusive zone extending 200 nautical mi. (370 km) from their coast. "When countries have overlapping claims," says Nuno Antunes, East Timor's legal adviser, "the best settlement is to be found in international law." Citing 75 precedents, he says equidistance is the key principle. But a median line would put all the petroleum reserves on Timor's side. Australia argues that the contours of the seabed are unique. "We have successfully established that the natural promulgation of the continent extends to the Timor Trough," says an Australian official involved in the talks last month in Dili. In Canberra...
...increasing the country's resilience. China is now a member of the World Trade Organization, has more-diverse industries and markets, a more flexible industrial base and a better-trained workforce. Although the country's official growth target of 7% is thought to be difficult to achieve, the median prediction among economists tracked by Bloomberg holds that China's GDP growth will slow to 8.7% this year...
...median age of the American people is approximately 36 years, and the typical U.S. history course required of high school students seldom reaches World War II. When such a course does reach the present time, the past 70 years are fleetingly covered. More than half of our citizens have not lived or been well-taught about the Plessy years. They can’t appreciate the massive social, psychological and economic damage caused by that policy and how it propagates into our own time. Millions of its victims and perpetrators are still alive and either bear scars or enjoy benefits...