331. Time Magazine’s  Men/Women of the year you may have forgotten (1980-1999)

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1984 – Peter Ueberroth (helped orchestrate the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles after the 1980 U.S. boycott of the Moscow games.) I guess in a way, you could say he revitalized the Olympics. 

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1982  – The Computer We laugh, but I’m on a computer right now!

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1986 – Corazon Aquino (first female president of the Philippines) 

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1988 – “The endangered planet Earth”. (as I mentioned in the “Murphy Brown Saves the Earth” post from a few months ago) 

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1991 – Duke Phillips Ted Turner (I’m assuming its for CNN’s coverage of the Gulf War)

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1997 – Andrew Grove (CEO of Intel)

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1999 – Jeff Bezos (founder of amazon.com) 

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