Word: rossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University officials 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 Museum of Archaeology's enormous and underexposed collection...
...lost more than $1 billion in the period of a month and once carried out a mission to rescue two of his company executives from an Iranian prison. H. Ross Perot is not the typical Harvard benefactor...
...company that Smith sought. "They are a storehouse of technology," he says. "Hughes' single biggest asset is its brainpower and teamwork." But Hughes coveted its independence and initially spurned GM. The rebuff turned the automaker toward Electronic Data Systems, a Dallas-based computer-services firm that Founder H. Ross Perot had built into the largest company in its field. Smith sees E.D.S. as the key to upgrading GM's worldwide computing operations. Under the Texas firm's guidance, GM machines performing tasks as varied as running payrolls and controlling robots will be forged into a unified network. As a first...
Hollywood thinks so too. Director Herbert Ross, who did Funny Girl and Footloose, is considering her, he says, for the lead in a movie about Stripper Blaze Starr. Producer Ray Stark has talked with her about starring in a film about Libby Holman, the '20s and '30s torch singer. "Considering" and "talking with" do not cost much, of course, but Madonna's considering is moving in the same direction. "I don't think of myself as a rock star," she tells an interviewer as she cools out in her hotel room after her concert two weeks ago in New Orleans...
Singlaub, for his part, insists that he is not working for the CIA. But Reagan Administration officials know about and tacitly approve of the former general's activities. As Singlaub told TIME Correspondent Ross H. Munro: "I try to communicate, sometimes by telephone: 'This is what I am about to do. If you object to it, send me a signal.' " So far, he says, none has come...