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Ross Perot - Wikipedia  Henry Ross Perot better known as Ross Perot, is an American businessman best known for being an independent presidential candidate in 1992 and the Reform party presidential candidate ... EDS went public in 1968 and the stock price rose from $16 a share to $160 within days. Fortune called Perot the "fastest, richest...
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Ross Perot: A Will To Succeed The Charismatic Texan Has Long ...  Oct 22, 1992 ... Take Sides On Welfare's Future Work Requirements. ... Electronic Data Systems Inc., the company that made him billions, was ... After Perot left EDS behind in 1986, the company's president, Les .... Perot held 9.5 million shares, and on the first day of trading in September 1968, EDS stock rocketed.
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jeopardy/1146_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  RICH & FAMOUS | In 1968 this future presidential candidate's stock in E.D.S. made him a billionaire | Ross Perot. right: Kate. Wrong: Value: $100. Number: 1.
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George Wallace presidential campaign, 1968 - Wikipedia  Former Governor of Alabama George Wallace ran in the 1968 United States presidential election as the candidate ... Wallace's foreign policy positions set him apart from the other candidates in the field. "If the Vietnam War was not winnable...
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THE 1992 CAMPAIGN - Candidate's Record - Federal Contracts ...  May 5, 1992 ... In the popular folklore that surrounds him, Ross Perot started his ... of the would-be Presidential candidate, who presents himself as a ... In 1968, E.D.S. issued stock publicly for the first time and Mr. Perot became a multimillionaire. ... Blue Cross executives in writing that future Medicare contracts should be...
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Low Fidelity - The Boston Globe - Boston.com  Feb 19, 2006 ... Over the past five years, many of the firm's largest domestic-stock ... FIDELITY WAS BIRTHED HERE IN 1946 by Edward C. Johnson 2d, a young ... home of the modern mutual fund, in which a large group of investors ... He was promoted to president in 1972 and chairman and CEO in 1977 when his father's...
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A Look at America's Richest Politicians - ABC News  Two years ago, Americans elected George W. Bush, the first president with a master's in business ... Teresa inherited her fortune after John Heinz, a Republican senator from Pennsylvania, died in plane crash in 1991. ... Sanchez's net worth is pegged at about $500 million, thanks to interests in banking, oil and technology.
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Edgar Bronfman Jr. - Wikipedia  Edgar Miles Bronfman Jr. (born May 16, 1955) is an American businessman who currently ... His Efer Productions company was signed by Universal Studios in 1977 to a ... In 1984, Bronfman returned to New York as President of the House of ... This stake in DuPont, by 1995, represented about 70% of Seagram's total...
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Richard Nixon presidential campaign, 1968 - Wikipedia  The 1968 presidential campaign of Richard Nixon, the 36th Vice President of the United States, ... Elected together with Eisenhower, he served as Vice President during the .... Meanwhile, Rockefeller began to be viewed more as a candidate, ... that Nixon led President Johnson 41% to 39% in a three-way race with American...
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Mitt Romney's Nixon Problem in 2012's Republican Presidential ...  Oct 18, 2011 ... Still widely viewed as a plastic candidate, Romney must escape the ghost of Nixonand Cain can help. ... A ghost from 1968 haunts the campaign of Mitt Romneyand no, ... Ronald Reagan on the party's right, or New York Gov. ... little chance for an internal Democratic challenge to President Obama, and...
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Joseph P. Kennedy: A portrait of the founder (Fortune Classics, 1963)  Apr 10, 2011 ... He was a capitalist but he had no business in the ordinary sense, and wanted none. ... He had the progenitor's sense; to him, his children were an .... a small East Boston bank with capital of $200,000 and a surplus of $37,000. ... At 25, he was widely publicized as the youngest bank president in the country.
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George Romney presidential campaign, 1968 - Wikipedia  George Romney ran for the 1968 Republican Party nomination in the 1968 United States presidential election. Romney was the Governor of Michigan and automaker who focused his ... His campaign focused on governorship of Michigan, where he inherited a debt of $100 million and turned it around to restore Michigan's...
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Paul Allen - Wikipedia  Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American business magnate, investor and ... Allen attended Lakeside School, a private school in Seattle, where he ... In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Paul Allen with his friend Bill Gates, in 1975, began .... Also in 2013, Vulcan Productions signed on as a producing partner of...
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The Bill Clinton we knew at Oxford: Apart from smoking dope (and ...  Oct 10, 1992 ... Improbably, Oxford has become a leitmotif of the Bush campaign, with ... He arrived in October 1968 as one of 32 American Rhodes scholars who ... He was 22 and had just completed a degree at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. ... Bill Clinton, before coming to Oxford, had worked for a time in the...
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Ross Perot - Wikipedia  Henry Ross Perot better known as Ross Perot, is an American businessman best known for being an independent presidential candidate in 1992 and the Reform party presidential candidate ... EDS went public in 1968 and the stock price rose from $16 a share to $160 within days. Fortune called ..... Dallas Morning News.
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Michael Bloomberg - Wikipedia  Michael Rubens "Mike" Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American business magnate ... Bloomberg served as the 108th Mayor of New York City, holding office for .... He spent $73 million of his own money on his campaign, outspending Green ..... In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in November 2012,...
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Ross Perot - Entrepreneur  Oct 10, 2008 ... Founder of Electronic Data Systems Corp. ... Supersalesman. ... has taken on industry giants such as IBM and General Motors Corp., ... In 1984, on his 54th birthday, Perot sold EDS to General Motors (GM) for
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That Time Howard Hughes Purchased a TV Station So He Could ...  Aug 11, 2016 ... Howard Hughes, the legendarily reclusive billionaire business ... As the story goes, in 1966 under cover of darkness, Hughes rolled into Las Vegas in his private ... had his personal assistants whisk him to the Desert Inn hotel where they ... buying it, he supposedly had the sign moved so it didn't disturb him.
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The Good Works of Sargent Shriver - The Atlantic  Jan 18, 2011 ... A reminiscence. "Knifed": In 1968 the Kennedy family essentially blackballed a brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, who was very close to being chosen as Hubert Humphrey's running mate. In doing so, they may have accidentally thrown the election to Richard Nixon. "Listen," he said. "This is the most amazing thing.
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The 29 richest people in America - Business Insider  Jan 27, 2016 ... The two richest people in America are no surprise: Bill Gates and ... now called Renaissance Technologies, has more than $65 billion in .... Net worth: $17 billion ... named for one of Orange County's earliest developers  for $337 .... Soros' leadership, making it one of the most successful hedge funds of all...
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The Hoffa Wars: Chapter One - Dan E. Moldea  In 1967, Fitzsimmons suddenly inherited the uncontrollable monster Hoffa had ... By making his prison pact with Galante, Jimmy Hoffa became a key figure in this ... In February 1969, less than a month after Nixon took office, the Banana Wars ... Respected among all parties and put in control of the union's pension and...