Word: superpatriot
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...Henry) Ross Perot will argue with that description. The blunt-spoken, impulsive founder of Electronic Data Systems, who managed last week both to goad mighty General Motors into an expensive estrangement and get his name involved in Washington's Iran-contra scandal, has been variously called a dictator, a superpatriot and an inspiring, unassuming employer-philanthropist. He is also one of America's wealthiest men. His scrappy individualism and spectacular feats of corporate derring-do are the stuff of John Wayne-style legend and its modern equivalent, a television mini-series (NBC's May On Wings of Eagles). Says...