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Because of some basic changes in the nation's economy, society and technology, more and more married women are going back to work; the median age for women workers has risen to a high 41 years. On average, today's American woman marries at 20, has only two or three children, and can expect to live to the age of 73-which leaves her 30 useful years after her children grow up. She usually returns to work not because she has to make ends meet but because she wants to live better, buy a second car, take...
...claims to have the highest density of telephones of any community in the world (50,000 for 14,300 people). The average family income is more than $19,000. There are no slums, no visibly poor, and no night life. Today's population is the oldest, with a median age of 46.8 years, of any major California city, and a high time in the old town consists for the most part of a movie and a malted...
Also less pretentious, less purple, and more palpable than the Advocate median is "Set Theory," by Donald Bloch, a mature and controlled observation of a son returned from school to the familiar, petty bitchinesses of his parents. Bloch infuses the trivial "stuff of life" that makes up his story with an unusual intensity. Yet he does not languish turgidly over details, a favorite indulgence of Porter and Mary Seager, forcing the reader to rush his eyes downward, hungry for a little less talk and more action...
...prosper at law, it appears, is to belong to a firm, the bigger the better. In Philadelphia, the median income of lawyers who work by themselves is $11,000 a year. In partnerships of two or three lawyers, the median rises to $15,000. With four or five in the firm, the figure is $17,000. In firms where the roster of partners runs to twelve or more lawyers, median income reaches upward to a level that many a successful doctor might find impressive-$28,500 a year...
...figures were available on the number of additional scholarships that will be requested, but observers felt that a minimum of 25 is needed if the College is to keep the median family income of scholarship holders--an important measure of the economic spread in the College--from rising significantly. The median income for scholarship families...