Word: perots
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Currently, there is talk by H. Ross Perot, chairman of the Governor's Select Committee on Public Education of stiffening academic requirements for high school athletes, cutting athletic budgets, and changing eligibility requirements to eliminate the incentive for holding student back. Such recommendations--several of which are supported by President Bok--are both reasonable and well-intentioned. But the committee must keep in mind when formulating such reforms that eliminating athletics programs will not just protect students from exposure to an unhealthy environment: it is also closing off perhaps the only avenue many students have to "getting out"--a painful...
Lovely irony. Like life. An infantry corporal with nine pieces of shrapnel in his back carried on the fight for three years, pressing, retreating, always recovering and trudging wearily ahead, overcoming protesting generals (Air Force Ace Robinson Risner) and multimillionaires (Ross Perot) and politicians (Congressman Phil Crane) and pundits (Columnist Pat Buchanan) and bureaucrats (Secretary of the Interior James Watt...
...monument. Illinois' meddlesome Congressman Henry Hyde carelessly spread misinformation and doubt, impugning the sponsors of the idea. Democratic Presidential Candidate George McGovern, who ran in 1972 and was one of the first and most vehement opponents of the war, rallied behind the campaign. Texan Ross Perot intruded with ideas for bigger and grander edifices and statues. With little fanfare, Nancy Reagan penned thank-you notes to hundreds of the donors among the 250,000 who contributed a total of $6 million...
...Ross Perot...
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