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...That cry of alarm can be heard in Dallas, Chicago and Atlanta these days, as leaders of the top U.S. airlines wail about a threat to their hard-won global dominance. While on the campaign trail, Bill Clinton joined the chorus of alarm. In the final presidential debate, Ross Perot sounded the most impassioned warning of all. "We're getting ready to dismantle an airlines industry in our country, and none of you know it," he declared. "This deal is terribly destructive to the U.S. airline industry...
...PEROT: The Lessons Learned...
...their resumes updated: 53 Representatives retired or just declined to run again. Others, like New York's Stephen Solarz, found the ground shifting beneath their feet as redistricting removed their old constituencies. One way or another, an empty space opened up, and that great sucking sound, as Ross Perot might have put it, was women rushing in to fill the vacuum...
...have shared their law school classes with women or their homes with actual feminists. This puts them in a different geological era from Bush, who, when questioned about appointing women to office, mentioned the woman in his Administration who's responsible for doling out souvenir tie clips, or Perot, who cited his wife and "four beautiful daughters...
...knows the value of humility -- and isn't afraid to steal a line from Ross Perot in order to project it: "I'll wake up every day in the White House with the idea that it's not my house; it's your house. I am nothing more than a temporary tenant and your chief hired hand...