Word: skewness
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...already rich). But for our purposes, the salient stats are North American revenue. ?Fahrenheit?: just over $119 million. ?The Passion?: just over $370 million - more than three times as much - to rank ninth on the domestic list of all-time money earners. (To be sure, constantly rising ticket prices skew this list. Interestingly, in Box Office Mojo?s ranking of real-dollar all-timers, ?The Passion,? at #51, is only the fifth top-grossing religious epic, following the 1956 ?The Ten Commandments? at #5, the 1959 ?Ben-Hur? at 13, ?The Robe? at 43 and ?The Bells of St. Mary...
There are exceptions. Democrats are more likely to go to art museums. They also skew toward cognac, which usually costs more than whiskey, the G.O.P. choice. Party demographics help explain that difference: black men have appreciated cognac since the 1970s, even before Jay-Z embraced it, while whiskey has a long history in red states like Kentucky. Sure enough, at the G.O.P. Convention this year, the most requested drink was Maker's Mark whiskey. The Democratic winner was too close to call. "The Kahlúa White House Russian was a big favorite with the ladies, Courvoisier XO cognac with...
...Brussels representative of the member-state governments. The Council President will serve a renewable two-and-a-half-year term, rather than the current ineffectual six months. The job - the particulars of which will be established largely by the first person to hold it - is widely expected to further skew the balance of power away from the Commission and toward national governments. "That's the long game people are watching, not the Commission President," says the diplomat. The short game matters, though. Delors ended up stronger than his German and French promoters had intended; Prodi perhaps somewhat weaker. Given...
...mouth. HCL itself did little to publicize the survey. The survey’s low profile, along with its unfortunate timing—after most thesis research has been completed and before most students have begun term papers—suggests an effort on the part of HCL to skew survey results in favor of the unpopular move...
Powell, meanwhile, said that the day after sending out his message, he received a concerned e-mail from an HCL supervisor, who worried that the e-mail might skew results and stuff the ballot...