Word: perots
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...runs, Barend would be the only Democrat vying for the seat in this 29th district, which went to Bush in 2000, tossed 25 percent of its vote to Ross Perot in 1992, and has four Republicans who have declared that they will run if Houghton retires...
...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...
Where are you, Ross Perot? The Texas millionaire who won 19% of the vote in 1992 after teaching the country to get angry about the budget deficit should be banging his spoon on the table right now. Or a draft-Perot movement should be under way. (Perot declined to talk to TIME.) In addition to the new burden for Medicare, discretionary spending has increased 27% in the past two years. Much of that has gone to fighting the war on terrorism, but funds have also been spent on new benefits for veterans, subsidies for farmers and aid to low-performing...
WHERE ARE YOU, ROSS PEROT? A $400 billion Medicare bill, pork galore--fiscal responsibility has become...
...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...