Word: perotism
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...grows to $500 billion and those in charge seem inclined only to add to it. "There's going to have to be a crisis to get people to pay attention," says one of the leading members of the tribe. "And there's going to have to be another Ross Perot...
...home state of Karnataka. He's already spent time and money stumping for candidates from an affiliated party in a recent election for the state assembly, and he says he plans to field candidates of his own in future elections. Emulating his heroes-American tycoon-turned-politician Ross Perot and Italian media magnate-turned-Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi-Mallya is pushing hard to break down the barrier traditionally separating business from politics in his country. "This is the first time a major businessman has officially entered politics in India," says P.S. Jayaramu, a professor of political science at Bangalore University...
...Ross Perot was very interesting. He was surrounded by his people. He offered me carte blanche, anything he could do for us, anything at all. I couldn’t think of a thing. I could kick myself sometimes. I have become good friends with Molly Ivins and Jim Hightower and they are marvelously funny and interesting. Molly and some of us went for a drink to The Good Life on Mass. Ave.var after her speech last week, and she is so wonderful to be around...
...mishaps did little to quell the private talk in Washington that Clark is a little bit, well, odd. Some saw a touch of Ross Perot in the man who implied in June that the Bush White House had pressured him to link 9/11 to Saddam Hussein, and then backtracked by saying the call had actually come from a Canadian think tank with access to "inside intelligence information." He also claimed the Administration had tried to get him fired from CNN. Clark insisted to TIME that he had never said that was anything more than a rumor...
...have covered eight presidential campaigns, and the answer is always the same: find a deus ex machina. In my time, these have ranged from Jerry Brown (1976) to Ralph Nader to Lee Iacocca to Mario Cuomo to Al Gore (1992, when Clinton seemed to be stumbling) to Ross Perot. Most were wise enough to stay away; those who jumped in failed...