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Challenges of the New Millenium . Bill Gates. Co-Founder of Microsoft, created one of the most recognized brands in the computer industry. First to see the potential of the personal computer. Sam Walton. Founder of Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club. Estee Lauder.
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Co-Founder of Microsoft, created one of the most recognized brands in the computer industry. First to see the potential of the personal computer.
First African-American billionaire. Founder of BLack Entertainment Television.
Founded the largest Hispanic advertising agency in the US. Political consultant to several Republican Presidents.
Was created by the Obama and Congressional leaders to jumpstart the American economy.
A worldwide association of nations that depend on oil sales for their national income and that sets oil prices.
Formed in 1947 to further trade by reducing tariff levels on many commodities. Replaced by the World Trade Organization in 1994.
Trade pact signed by Canada, the U.S., and Mexico in 1992. Decreased and eventually eliminated tariffs to encourage economic activity between the countries.
First Hispanic Justice and the third woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Supervising producer and host of the top-rated, award-winning The Oprah Winfrey Show for two decades. She is a global media leader and philanthropist.
To charge a government official with an offense committed while in office
Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and refused the U.N.’s request to withdraw. U.N. forces under U.S. leadership, attacked Iraq.
Ethnic groups pushed for independence which resulted in the breakup of Yugoslavia
Islamic Fundamentalist terrorists boarded our different U.S. airlines. Once airborne, the planes were hijacked. Then, the terrorists flew the planes into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon building in Washington, D.C. A fourth plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, when passengers resisted the terrorists.
