Word: mason
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goal in most cases is to increase strength without adding bulk. "We're trying to make runners and jumpers, not body builders," says Dave Ash, weight-training coach at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. One technique is to do many repetitions at low resistance, which takes longer to increase strength but vastly improves endurance. As part of her pre-Olympic regimen, Jamaican long jumper Diane Guthrie has been doing 250 leg curls every day wearing 10-lb. ankle weights. The 20-year-old Guthrie, who trained at George Mason, notes that when she slacked off onweight training, she hurt...
...this story is open to dispute. Take the tale that as a preteen Perot delivered the Texarkana Gazette in a dangerous neighborhood, riding a horse so that he could escape from customers who might try to mug him. In his 1990 book, Perot: An Unauthorized Biography, journalist Todd Mason suggests that Perot actually rode a bicycle...
...trivial matter? Not to Perot. For six months he bombarded Mason and his editor, Jeffrey Krames, with letters and phone calls from himself, his sister Bette and boyhood acquaintances who insisted Perot did so ride a horse. He even sent Krames a poster-size map of Texarkana, with his route outlined block by block, and pretyped letters of retraction, needing only a signature. He never...
...second salary as a full-time schoolteacher. This, however, is a rare case of Perot deflating a tall story; more distressing than any of the disputes about individual incidents in his early career is his seeming ability to convince himself of the truth of whatever he wants to believe. Mason quotes EDS general counsel Richard Shlakman as saying, "A part of his genius is that he can be self-delusional when most of us are only hypocritical...
...Perot, vacationing in London, got news that Bradford National Corp., a New York-based firm, had wrested a Texas Medicaid contract away from EDS. Perot could not accept the idea that EDS had lost fairly. He flew back to convene an EDS meeting in Dallas, at which, says author Mason, "eavesdroppers outside the third-floor conference room heard him shouting, 'I want to find the son of a bitch who let this happen and get him out of the company!' " Though the principal question was whether EDS or Bradford had submitted the lower bid, Perot and his aides...