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Hirohito
Hirohito , 1901-89, emperor of Japan. He was made regent in 1921 and succeeded his father, Yoshihito (the Taishō emperor), in 1926. He married (1924) Princess Nagako Kuni (1903-2000); a son and heir, Prince Akihito , was born in 1933. For 20 years he reigned as sovereign as Japan went to war...
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Rudolph William Giuliani
Rudolph William Giuliani , 1944-, American government official, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. He attended Manhattan College and studied law at New York Univ. In the Justice Dept. as associate deputy attorney general (1975-77), associate attorney general (1981-83), and U.S. attorney for New York's Southern Distr...
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Queen Charlotte Islands
Queen Charlotte Islands archipelago of several large and many small islands, off the coast of W British Columbia, Canada. The main islands are Graham and Moresby. Masset on Graham Island is the main settlement. About 2,000 of the Islands' 5,700 inhabitants are Haida, a native people whose ancient v...
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Alberto Fujimori
Alberto Fujimori , 1938-, president of Peru (1990-2000), b. Lima, Peru. The son of Japanese immigrants, he was educated in Peru and attended Univ. of Wisconsin. Fujimori was an unknown economist when he scored an upset in the 1990 presidential elections. He inherited a nation experiencing a severe e...
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Vicente Fox Quesada
Vicente Fox Quesada , 1942-, Mexican political leader, president of Mexico (2000-6). Raised on a ranch in rural central Mexico's Guanajuato state, he became a successful rancher and business executive. He joined Coca Cola in 1964 and rose to become the company's head in Mexico and the Caribbean. A c...
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Ted Turner
Ted Turner (Robert Edward Turner 3d), 1938-, American television network executive, b. Cincinnati. After inheriting his father's billboard company, he founded (1976) a television station, WTBS, and built it into the Turner Broadcasting System (TBS). He pioneered "superstation" broadcasting, in ...
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Year 2000 problem
Year 2000 problem Y2K problem, or millennium bug, in computer science, a design flaw in the hardware or software of a computer that caused erroneous results when working with dates beyond Dec. 31, 1999. In the 1960s and 70s programmers who designed computer systems dropped the first tw...
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John Vliet Lindsay
John Vliet Lindsay , 1921-2000, American politician, mayor of New York City (1966-73), b. New York City. He practiced law and then served (1955-57) as executive assistant to Attorney General Herbert Brownell. A liberal Republican, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1958 and was r...
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census
census periodic official count of the number of persons and their condition and of the resources of a country. In ancient times, among the Jews and Romans, such enumeration was mainly for taxation and conscription purposes. The introduction of the modern census—a periodic and thorough statist...
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Keizo Obuchi
Keizo Obuchi , 1937-2000, Japanese politician, prime minister of Japan (1998-2000), b. Nakanojo. The son of a silk manufacturer and politician, Obuchi graduated from Waseda Univ. in 1962 and in 1963 was elected to the parliament seat once held by his late father. A member of the Liberal Democratic ...
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