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...partial explanation of Perot's success is his equal-opportunity giving. In 1972 he forked over $200,000 to Richard Nixon's re-election campaign. Meanwhile, two Perot executives channeled $100,000 to the presidential campaign of Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, then chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. In 1974, according to Common Cause, Perot gave $90,000 each to the Republicans and Democrats. Although Perot has shown little regard for George Bush, he gave $8,000 to Bush-Quayle committees and $51,000 to the Republican Party between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perot and His Presidents | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...Menu Man did not actually appear on the set. Instead, the host and callers talked to him on the telephone. When a caller asked Menu Man what his favorite meal was, he revealed that he was partial to the chickwich...

Author: By Alison E. Mckenzie, | Title: WHRB May Launch Weekly Talk Program | 5/13/1992 | See Source »

...women can get to any state where abortion is legal, menstrual extraction is unlikely to become a real alternative to physician-provided abortions. But the very fact that it's under discussion once more is a sign of the ways in which America is bracing itself for a partial return to the past. In the two decades since Roe was handed down, a generation has grown up that knows nothing of the days of illicit abortions conducted on kitchen tables, or in doctor's offices at night with the blinds drawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abortion the Future Is Already Here | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

...statement was taken well out of context,and it was a partial quote," Sperling said. "All Ican say is, look what the standard compensation isas a percent of profit in the venture business andapply those formulas and you come up with anumber...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Money Managers' Ethics Questioned | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

...upon arrival in the U.S. have the same learning patterns and achievement characteristics. That might account for the steady stream of visitors to Great Falls elementary, especially from Japan. Now that country has paid the young students of its own language the ultimate compliment: Japan wants to establish similar partial- immersion programs in elementary schools -- using English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: (Is That Correct?) In a handful of American schools, first-graders are discovering math and science -- in Japanese | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

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