8/93Percentage of Americans who say they have never heard the term “managed competition”: 60
8/93Chances that an emergency-room patient in a U.S. hospital does not require emergency care: 1 in 2
8/93Percentage change, since 1990, in contributions to congressional campaigns made by health-care industry PACs: +36
8/93Amount Ross Perot’s advocacy group, United We Stand, claims it has raised since January: $15,000,000
8/93Amount contributed to the Democratic National Committee since January: $13,600,000
8/93Number of New York Times articles in May containing the words “Clinton” and “focus”: 102
8/93Percentage change, since 1989, in the average number of presidential approval polls released each month: +100
8/93Percentage of Americans who think all ethnic groups in the former Yugoslavia are equally to blame for the war there: 58
Average amount spent on weapons by Croatian and Muslim forces each day since then: $2,000,000
8/93Average value of the goods and services produced each year by a full-time Japanese worker: $38,200
Average value of the goods and services produced each year by a full-time American worker: $49,600
8/93Percentage change, since 1979, in the value of property seized under federal asset-forfeiture laws: +5,658
8/93Portion of all war fatalities in the last 500 years that took place in this century: 3/4
8/93Portion of all foreign direct investment in developing countries last year that went to Asia: 1/2
8/93Percentage change, since 1980, in the number of U.S. residents who speak Mon-Khmer, a Cambodian dialect: +676
8/93Percentage change, since 1980, in the number of people calling themselves “American Indian” on the census: +38
8/93Chances that an adult resident of Los Angeles is white: 1 in 3
Chances that a voter in Los Angeles’s June mayoral election was white: 2 in 3
8/93Number of Democratic House members whose percentage of the vote in November was lower than Bill Clinton’s: 0
8/93Percentage of Americans describing themselves as “ultra-liberal” who consider S&M “an acceptable sexual practice”: 6
Percentage of Americans describing themselves as “ultra-conservative” who say this: 18
8/93Enrollment at Miss Vera’s Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girls, in New York City: 100
8/93Percentage change, since February, in average daily attendance at the Dr Pepper Museum in Waco, Texas: +102
8/93Days elapsed between the fire at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, and the first TV movie about it: 34
8/93Gallons of Kool-AID consumed by Americans each summer: 204,000,000
8/93Number of Americans who must become Rhodes scholars for Clinton’s Cabinet to “look like America”: 17,000,000
8/93Rank of Bill Clinton’s shoes, among the largest of any president since Woodrow Wilson: 1