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...survey, conducted by an Illinois industrial consulting firm, concludes that the median income of those who graduated from Harvard's Master of Business Administration (MBA) program ten years ago is $42,000 compared to $32,000 for a similar group of Stanford alumni, partly because Harvard MBA's tend to work in New York and Boston, where business salaries are higher than on the West Coast...
...change fast), the average woman clerical worker's salary was 62 per cent of the average man's--lower than the 68 per cent figure of nine years earlier. And the old image of the young, unmarried, female office workers is way out of date. By 1960, the median age of women clerical workers was 35, and more than half were married...
...priced charter flights to everywhere notwithstanding. Bookings in North America, which account for more than 80% of the world's cruise trade, totaled $1.6 billion in 1977, double the volume of a decade before. The number of passengers has passed the million-a-year mark, and the median age is dropping...
...Knowing the median verbal aptitude of our students, I'm sure they will coin a slogan befitting the significance of the occasion," Horner said yesterday...
...they are remarkably confident about their own economic futures. The close-in issues of inflation and unemployment, energy and taxes top the worry lists in all the polls, but concerns about far-off Russia or Africa are way down on the list. Despite the ravages of inflation, the median U.S. family's income rose in 1977, and 92 million Americans are now working, up from 86 million in November 1974. The hottest country-and-western hit is Johnny Paycheck's good-natured, blue-collar cry for the freedom to find work that satisfies as well as sustains: Take...