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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When you're worth $10 billion, you can afford to collect Gulfstreams, Ferraris and yachts. But last week Jeff Bezos, the founder of e-tailing dynamo Amazon.com had his sights set a little lower. Like millions of Internet surfers searching for their favorite obscure trinkets, Bezos joined an online auction, bidding for a pack of 1977 Star Wars trading cards. Alas, the buying force was not with him. He dropped out when the price got too high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now It's One Big Market | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...Century because he showed us a way out of the destructive side of our human nature. He demonstrated that we can force change and justice through moral acts of aggression instead of physical acts of aggression. Never has our species needed this wisdom more. --Steve Jobs, co-founder, Apple Computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Should Be the Person of the Century? | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...most important person of the 20th century was Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, who sacrificed his life for the creation of a new nation. Iftikhar H. Sabir As, Norway

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Should Be the Person of the Century? | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

DIED. LILA HOTZ LUCE TYNG, 100, first wife of Henry Luce, founder of TIME magazine; in Gladstone, N.J. A philanthropist and volunteer for numerous New York and New Jersey cultural institutions, Tyng was married to Luce from 1923 to 1935 and had two sons with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 12, 1999 | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...Hendricks, founder of the jazz ensemble Lambert, Hendricks & Ross

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: Joe Williams | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

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