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...about selling in the recession, are aware of the change -and consider it a challenge. With the need for adequate housing already essentially filled, the housing industry is making a fundamental shift. Builders are now concentrating on improving their houses and giving the customer more for his money. The median sale price of a house, for example, has dropped from $14,950 to $14,350, the first drop in four years -and the builders are supplying a larger house for the price despite the increase in costs...
...deepest Bronx stands a six-story accretion of bile-colored brick, too ugly to be a mental hospital or a tannery. It is the Bronx High School of Science, and it is a nationally famed rookery for genius. The median IQ of its students is about 135, but in some classes the average runs to 145 or more. If training brains is what high schools are for, the Bronx school may be the best in the country; in 1956 and 1957, students at "Science" won a total of eleven National Merit Scholarships, more than any other high school...
Within each group there is tremendous variation. Though 99% of G.P.s make some house calls, the number ranges from as few as one a week to as many as 77 (racked up by a 70-year-old Pennsylvanian); the median is twelve (ten daytime, two at night). A majority of the polled physicians reported that they try to talk their patients into visiting the office because facilities for examination are better there, and the patient can usually be seen sooner...
...sister's existence, with the hangover. So it goes, until one day Eve Black reports that she is having spells, too, and shortly thereafter-look out, here comes another psychic sidekick. This one calls herself Jane, and seems to be a normal, healthy girl-a sort of emotional median between the other two-but as far as the moviegoer is concerned, the picture has become a drearily confusing game of button, button, who's got her buttons...
...populated his city with conquered peoples, rebuilt it from ruins, crowned it with his palace and adorned the palace with the magnificence of the day. And in history it was only a day: the monuments to the might of Assur-nasir-pal II fell before a Babylonian revolt, a Median invasion, and the scouring sands of the desert...