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...cornered, Perot can be as fierce as the rattlesnake whose fangs he keeps preserved in a glass bowl in his office. When EDS lost part of the lucrative Texas Medicaid contract to a rival firm in 1980, Perot employees promptly dug up enough dirt on the winning bidder to overturn the contract award. One of Perot's current business ventures, run by his son Ross Jr., is to develop the land around Fort Worth's new Alliance Airport, which sits on property that the Perot family shrewdly donated (thus vastly increasing the value of the adjoining acreage they kept...
...your first year in office, you established Connecticut's first income tax, clashed with legislators by vetoing four attempts to overturn the levy, and in the process discovered that many residents hate you. Any regrets...
Ferraro added that this election season will be crucial to the pro-choice movement. The Supreme Court is expected to decide this year on a case that could overturn the 1973 decision of Roe v. Wade, which gave states greater freedom to determine the legality of abortion...
...addition, Clark defended the school'sdecision to offer tenure to two visiting scholars,stating that last spring the admissions committeevoted to overturn the policy...
...School officials maintain that the admissions committee voted to overturn this policy last year, after two Black female visiting professors were not granted tenure. Mnookin and Weiler have both left the Law School and would not have been affected by the policy...