There would also be one median commodity, and ten commodities that had gone down the most (or up the least) during the period.
But, we observe in Table 8 that when we look at the relative returns on each of the specific 454 one year periods, that half (median) of the one year periods underperformed by 0.07% or more.
For families of four at one-half of median income, the 1984 income tax rate of 6.5 percent has been totally eliminated.
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One area the ban does not cover is "median strips" - known as the central reservation in the UK - the sliver of land in the middle of a large road.
Note: median price per square foot in the neighborhood approximately one or two miles around the stadium.
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Last month the drug that resulted from Ferrara's work began to look like a success: Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ) unveiled trial results that showed it extended colon cancer patients' lives by a median of five months, or 30%, one of the bigger advances in years.
With a median population age of 26.2 years, India has one of the youngest demographic profiles in the world (U.S. 36.9, Russia 38.7 and Japan 44.8).
Economists reckoned the uplift in happiness at that time was equivalent to 60% of the increase in wellbeing people tend to experience when they cross the line of median income, from the third income quartile into the second one.
Only in the past two years, for example, have wages begun to increase in real terms, and one study to be released next week reckons that the real earnings of the median worker last year were still 3.1% lower than in 1989.
By 2009 tuition fees had jumped to over 10% of median income for a public university and around 45% for a private one.
One recent examination of primary and secondary buyouts in Europe between 1989 and 2006 found that the median IRR for the secondary buyouts was 32 percent, not far below the 36 percent the primary buyouts earned (see figure below).
After one year, only 48% of historically fast-growing firms continue to grow faster than the median firm.
One of the trials, IMPACT, was formally re-engineered, showed a four-month median survival benefit for Provenge, and was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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The below chart plots the growth in total federal and state student aid against the change in one measure of college affordability: the ratio of real average FTE enrollment-weighted tuition to real median family income.
It is also what causes the median and average of all returns to look higher even though in 50% of the one year periods the gold and real estate blended portfolio underperformed by 0.07% or more.
In London alone, Reynolds has led dozens of covert digs with hundreds of flower-empowered followers to transform derelict dirt on street corners, roadways and roundabouts into places of rediscovered horticultural beauty -- one of his favorite projects, Reynolds says, is a lavender field planted in a once-barren median on Westminster Bridge Road.
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Only one chief executive, James Sinegal of Costco Wholesale, received a pay increase (13%)less than the median.
The one Monday game he pitched during his recent streak (June 18 vs Baltimore) drew 29, 014 versus a median Monday attendance of 23, 970 for non-Dickey starts.
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