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...skimpy voter turnouts of the past few years could improve. Older citizens tend to vote in greater numbers than the young, and the Census Bureau says the median age will rise from 31 to 36 by the end of the century. There will be many more very old Americans. For instance, Arizonans over 80 will increase their number almost fivefold in two decades, from 50,000 to 228,000. Nationally, the number of people 85 and older is likely to double, to 5.1 million. To accommodate this demographic shift, cities and states may adapt existing facilities to the new circumstances...
Five years later, the median SAT of accepted students rose over 1300, and the entering class of 1987 promises to be more geographically diverse than its predecessors. Although George Koval, acting assistant provost for university life, admits that the admissions office has actively moved to "touch pockets of candidates in other areas of the nation where we might not have touched before," he does not see any concerted effort on the administration's part to improve the public image, nor does he consider it a serious problem...
...form is another question. Originally conceived as a youth group, the Corps is now actively recruiting retirees as well as businessmen, accountants and consultants, to meet the growing demand for trained professionals to form and assist the businesses and programs the Corps wants to build. Scotton predicts that the median age of volunteers, currently 28, will continue to increase. Technical schools are also being scouted...
...fill gaps in their knowledge. A full quarter of the student body is non-denominational; the rest represent 46 different denominations, with the largest group--13 percent--Catholic. More than half are women, many of them attracted by the school's unique Women's Studies in Religion Program. The median entering age is somewhere...
Investments in tangible items were far less rewarding than bets in the financial markets. Real estate prices failed to keep pace with the Consumer Price Index, which was only 4.6% higher in November than a year earlier. The median price of a single-family house went up less than 4%, from $65,900 to $68,200. An acre of Iowa farmland, reflecting the slump in agriculture, dropped from $2,147 to $1,801. Explained Robert Jolly, an Iowa State University assistant professor of economics: "The major buyers out there are other farmers." And many of them had trouble holding...