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...actions and speeches that highlight local initiatives, especially on welfare reform and education, which Clinton sees as his best shot for a lasting legacy. "Most of this work isn't done in Congress," says McCurry. In the coming weeks, Clinton will travel to state capitals to exhort legislatures to beef up educational standards and help put welfare recipients to work...
WASHINGTON: Perhaps the old saying that nobody should watch sausage being made, unless they really want to know what is in it, applies to commercially-raised beef. In an attempt to protect American consumers against Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, the Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday it is preparing to ban the use of animal parts in livestock feed. The measure is intended to erect a barrier which will help prevent any possible transmission of the illness from the feeding trough to the dinner table. "If we don't take preventive action today, we may regret it three to four years...
...manner of wages and benefits have been tied to the inflation rate. Yet there's a wide consensus among economists that the CPI overstates the actual rise in the cost of living. The reasons are complicated, but one, called the "substitution effect," is easily grasped. For example, when beef prices rise, people often switch to cheaper meats like chicken, a consumer choice that the current method of figuring the CPI doesn't catch...
...promising that an audible sigh of relief went up in the press room. Sadly, however, the panel was made up of those real people we hear so much about, and real people apparently don't take their lead from the media. They were still looking for the beef, and didn't know the new spin was, "Where's the mud?" Like jurors who take their responsibility seriously, they were unwilling to pick up on Dole's three early forays into scandal land, even at the cost of forgoing 30 seconds of sound-bite fame...
...bear a lot of the weight and scrutiny in this type of period-piece, are first rate. Credit should also be granted to the care taken to make the play's grotesques truly grotesque: LBJ is represented as a disembodied head atop a glob of what looks like ground beef and pasta that is rolled onto the stage in a wheelbarrow; Lee Radziwell (Jackie's sister) as a child is shown as a three-foot-tall (gnomish) creature wearing a straw hat and a cardboard baby doll dress; Hugh Auchincloss is completely inanimate as a wrinkly amorphous head with...