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Perot Systems, the computer services company founded by former presidential candidate Ross Perot, is all set to add about 3,500 jobs in India and move into two new facilities there this year. Most of the growth will come from a call centre and medical claims processing business, whose employee numbers are expected to rise to 2,800 workers from 800, said a report in the Star Telegram, published from Dallas, Texas. Mindy Brown, a spokeswoman for the company, said the expansion was related to acquisitions of two Indian companies made by Perot Systems in the past year. In July, Perot Systems...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- As a growing number of GOP heavyweights rally behind Republican gubernatorial hopeful Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sen. Tom McClintock risks being labeled a "spoiler" if his candidacy costs the Republicans the election.</p> <p>But former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader, widely considered a spoiler for taking votes from Democrat Al Gore in the 2000 election, said dropping out now would cost McClintock a major loss of integrity.</p>

The new Electronic Data System office in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) is half a world away from company headquarters in Plano, Tex. Getting to this Indian office requires a bumpy two-hour drive from downtown Mumbai. At every stoplight women dressed in rags and holding emaciated, dull-eyed infants tap car windows to beg. In the slums lining the roads, thousands of people live crammed into dirt-floored rooms, sheltered from monsoon rains by plastic sheets. At the end of the drive is a heavily guarded, new office tower that rises above the slums. This is where Amit, 24, works. "This is Andy. How...

Lessons of the Bush Defeat: The Conservative Electorate of 1992 by David K. Nichols …what Perot's candidacy did was to give the voters who were dissatisfied with their respective parties a chance to protest without taking the revolutionary step of voting for the other side. Clinton received only 10% of the Republican votes, up a mere 2% from 1988. Almost all of the Republican voters who deserted Bush moved to Perot. This is perhaps the most conclusive sign that Bush lost, rather than Clinton won.If there is agreement on anything about the 1992 election, it is that the election represented...

According to a book proposal he's circulating, the former Bush spoiler is positioning himself as a voice to reckon with in 2004 -- and maybe more. Aug. 8, 2003 | Is Ross Perot plotting a return to the national stage in time for the 2004 elections? Judging from a well-written 95-page book proposal making its way through the New York publishing circuit, a copy of which arrived unbidden in my e-mail, the crazy aunt in the basement wants to sing again. For connoisseurs of political entertainment, "America the Broken: How to Reform and Revive the Greatest Democracy Ever Known," which...

The year was 1992. America was in the midst of an economic recession, and a presidential election was looming. The two major parties produced a pair of candidates that had the electorate issuing a collective yawn -- a sitting president who seemed aloof and clueless on how to turn around the sagging economy and a slick-talking governor from Arkansas who seemed to have only a passing familiarity with the truth. Out of nowhere rode a brash little Texas billionaire who ran one of the most successful third-party presidential campaigns in history by spending a great deal of his own money...

For those who would like to know, Ross Perot is endorsing Rick Perry for governor. I know how many feel about Ross Perot and I don't blame them but Ross did endorse George W. Bush for president and feels Rick Perry would be best for the job. He says the country is at war and needs leadership like Churchill. Patriotism is coming first in people's lives thanks to President Bush and the momentum is shifting. If you have not voted, get out and vote. If you know fence sitters, get them to the polls. If you are a patriot, you...

<p>SACRAMENTO (AP) --  Even before California's deregulated energy market opened for business, employees with Perot Systems, the firm that developed software for the market, understood how to game the system for higher profits, a state senator said documents received by his committee show.</p>

Ross Perot convinced Dr. Robert Haley to start studying Gulf War illness in the early 1990s. The Dallas tycoon and former presidential candidate had approached the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, where Haley is head of epidemiology, wanting to fund research into the cause of Gulf War illness. An ardent veterans' advocate, Perot steadfastly has disputed scientists' contention that stress is responsible for Gulf War illness. In January 1997, Haley published three papers in the Journal of the American Medical Association describing the results of the Perot-funded research. Haley had done questionnaire surveys in which he asked...