Word: perots
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...risen fast by mastering the bureaucracy of a giant company, the other a feisty free spirit who had built a billion-dollar firm from scratch. For two years everyone had wondered what would become of the uneasy chemistry between General Motors Chairman Roger Smith, 61, and H. Ross Perot, 56, the company's largest shareholder...
Last week the answer came: an explosion that hurled Perot off the GM board of directors and into the headlines. At a session that Perot agreed to skip, the other members of the GM board voted unanimously to buy back his 11.3 million shares of company stock for $700 million. In effect, they told the brash Texan that he could take his money and his loud mouth and go away...
...partnership had once seemed so promising. Both men shared the same vision and goal: to use technology to thrust General Motors boldly into the 21st century. When GM in 1984 bought Dallas-based Electronic Data Systems, the computer-services firm that Perot had founded, Smith was trying to inject high-tech know-how and a can-do spirit into a stodgy company. But the job of grafting an entrepreneurial operation onto a highly departmentalized, regimented and unionized organization proved to be more troublesome than anticipated...
...Democratic Senators, Gary Hart and Tim Wirth, in the 1980s. There were legendary Democrats from the region like Arizona's Mo Udall and Colorado's Patricia Schroeder serving in Congress. In 1992 Bill Clinton won Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and Montana--albeit with a hefty assist from Ross Perot, who peeled votes away from George H.W. Bush in fiscally conservative, socially libertarian Mountain states like Montana, where Perot received 26.2% of the vote, his best statewide result...
...Democratic Senators, Gary Hart and Tim Wirth, in the 1980s. There were legendary Democrats from the region like Arizona's Mo Udall and Colorado's Patricia Schroeder serving in Congress. In 1992 Bill Clinton won Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and Montana--albeit with a hefty assist from Ross Perot, who peeled votes away from George H.W. Bush in fiscally conservative, socially libertarian Mountain states like Montana, where Perot received 26.2% of the vote, his best statewide result...