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Ross Perot may have lost his big debate with Al Gore last week, but the blustery billionaire did make one telling point: recent college graduates have been having a tougher time finding a good job since 1992 than at any other time in the past 20 years. Irritated by Gore's upbeat description of the benefits of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Perot blurted out, "If this is all true, why is it that everywhere I go in a hotel, I've got a college graduate coming up to the room bringing food, carrying bags...
...used this game to prepare for tougher competition," Baker said...
Californians were unnerved and seeking a focus for their anger. More than one burned-out homeowner wished aloud that the arsonist had gone up with his handiwork. Governor Pete Wilson compared arsonists to child molesters, offered a $250,000 bounty and requested tougher sentencing. In Washington, as President Bill Clinton promised to help the damaged areas with their "extraordinary expenses," Senator Bob Dole introduced an amendment to the crime bill that would hit arsonists with 40-year jail terms and fines reaching millions of dollars...
...Senate has begun hearings that will ultimately lead to the reauthorization, and possible strengthening, of the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act. But the debate will be long and difficult. Environmental groups such as the N.R.D.C. want stricter enforcement of the existing rules, along with new or tougher standards on contaminants like radioactive radon gas and arsenic. Lined up on the other side are state and local governments and water utilities, which insist they don't have enough money to comply with the law as it is, let alone additional rules. The regulations should be relaxed, they say, not strengthened...
...well, the laughing will be added later. Much will be subtracted too: a rough cut of the show is a hefty six minutes long. All in all, David is happy. "It was a tougher show than usual," he says. "But it all seemed to work." When the show airs a week from Thursday, viewers can decide for themselves whether he's right...