Word: perots
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Americans like mythy energies and exemplary deeds. H. Ross Perot builds Electronic Data Systems into a $947 million business before selling out to General Motors in 1984. When two EDS employees are imprisoned in Iran, he plans a raid that gets them out--something that the U.S. military could not manage for the hostages at the U.S. embassy. Seeing that children in Texas are not being educated well enough, Perot organizes a movement to change the system. Even a character like Lyndon LaRouche, in his peculiar way, dramatizes the openness of the American political process, the way in which...
...walked through a Houston oil refinery, where the falling price of oil is doing more harm to Texas than Santa Anna ever did at the Alamo: state tax revenues from oil could fall by $1 billion this year. After presenting a Winston Churchill Award to Dallas Businessman H. Ross Perot for his "bold imagination, pioneering spirit and dynamic leadership," Charles left for California. Despite his princely welcome, he will not be around for the high point of the yearlong, $130 million observance. That comes March 2, Texas Independence Day, more important to Texans than, well, the Fourth of July...
Time was in Texas when a man of letters meant a guy who was on the track and football varsities. But two years ago H. Ross Perot gave Texas education a kick in the pants by leading the drive for the controversial no-pass, no-play rule for student athletes. Now he has given Texas letters an incalculable shot in the arm by presenting the University of Texas at Austin with a rare early English literary collection of 1,105 volumes and 250 manuscript groups. Included are first editions of Donne, Milton and Shakespeare, as well as the first book...
University officials said they are hoping to strike a deal with Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot that would allow him to rent tens of thousands of artifacts from the Peabody's enormous and underexposed collection. The plan would most likely call for the construction of an extension to the Peabody--bearing the computer magnate's name--in Texas which would receive artifacts on a rotating basis. Plans, however, are far from finalized, officials said...
University officials said they are hoping to strike a deal with Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot that would allow him to rent tens of thousands of artifacts from the Peabody's enormous and underexposed collection. The plan would most likely call for the construction of an extension to the Peabody--bearing the computer magnate's name--in Texas which would receive artifacts on a rotating basis. Plans, however, are far from finalized, officials said...