Word: perots
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...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...
...front of an audience of millions, King interviews writers, actors, athletes and most notably, politicians. In the 1992 presidential election, Ross Perot and Al Gore ’69 used the show as a forum for debate, with Perot even announcing his bid for the presidency while on the air with King...
Other credit unions are aggressively swallowing smaller ones, aiming to gain the critical mass to become more like one-stop financial-service centers. Since 1995, Dallas-based Advancial has acquired 15,000 new members at 250 companies, including Perot Systems and Brinker International. Advancial's head of strategic development, Dave Selsky, courts companies whose employees have good credit ratings and steady jobs and turns down one-third of the firms that want to join. As a result of such policies, Advancial is rated one of the nation's safest credit unions...