Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also said that the number of Republicans inhis district has grown, though slowly, over thelast five years. In the last election for the sameoffice, his current Democratic opponent, 10-yearincumbent John F. Cox, slipped through with a51-49 victory, he said...
Claudet Houle, Panagopoulos' campaign chair,said that Cox "is probably laughing at us," sincePanagopoulos is only 20 years old and without muchexperience...
...Cox, however, said he and his staff "feel veryconfident" about beating Panagopoulos in theupcoming election. "We're going to run thiscampaign as we normally have in previous years byworking hard and running on our record," Cox said...
...Cox, now 66, bitterly recalls that just as the 90-day period was ending, Perot demanded that Cox return his commission. "The account required almost constant attention, and Ross just let the deal die," says Cox, who feels that Perot then "would have resold ((the computer)) to Southwestern in a few months and kept 100% of the money. He was extremely devious...
...Cox says Perot relented only after Cox surprised his superiors by requesting the right to install the computer himself from California. "I was going to . take it all the way to the top of IBM," he says. "There are very few people who have really tried to cheat me on anything. And, in Ross's mind, he wasn't cheating me at all. That's the frightening part...