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Is it the fondness for executions--half of the nation's last year--the Civil War, the border patrol, the oxymoronic phrase "compassionate conservatism," the sweaty midnight memories of the Bush-Quayle administration, that paunch on John Wayne in The Alamo ? Is it just metropolitan prejudice, the Southern thing but with cattle?
The Post reports that Dade County, Florida, passed an ordinance last year--the first of its kind in the country--requiring businesses with more than 100 parking spaces to provide at least two spots for "stroller parking."
Live artillery shells, a dead sea turtle half the size of a Volkswagen Bettle, a drowned giraffe, antique crockery, pocketbooks, chemical sludge, raw sewage and about 5,000 cords of driftwood a year--the waters of New York Harbor yield a strage and eclectic bounty.
This reliance on the success of one or two films is unique to MGM and to this year--the studio should have a full slate again in 1998--but it does epitomize the industry's new dependence on blockbusters.
The WP lead notes that U.S. wages and benefits rose 3.5 percent in the last year--the biggest one-year gain since 1993.