| A | B |
|---|
| ENIAC | 1st computer |
| integrated circuit | complete electronic circuit on a single silicon chip |
| Silicon Valley | region south of San Francisco; high tech jobs |
| microprocessors | chips containing several integrated circuits, memory, and computing elements |
| Steve Jobs | co-founder of Apple |
| Bill Gates | co-founder of Microsoft; software designer |
| telecommute | work from home via computer |
| blog | web log; a kind of public diary or notebook |
| Clinton wants to do this to taxes | increase |
| Hillary Clinton | in charge of designing a national Health Care solution |
| AmeriCorps | students work on low-income housing, environmental, and education projects (similar to VISTA) |
| Brady Bill | Gun control legislation |
| Contract with America | conservative plan promoted by Newt Gingrich |
| Health Insurance Portability Act | allows a worker to keep his insurance if he changes jobs |
| Election of 1996 | Clinton defeats Dole |
| Clinton's impeachment | charges of perjury and obstruction of justice |
| Kenneth Starr | independent council during the impeachment proceedingS |
| perjury | lying under oath |
| Haiti | Aristide is ousted from this country and a UN trade embargo is imposed |
| Bosnia and Kosovo | site of civil war in the 1990's |
| ethnic cleansing | brutal expulsion of an ethnic group by the majority |
| Dayton | city in which Peace Talks occur in 1996 |
| Slobadan Milosevic | Serb leader tried for war crimes |
| 1993 Declaration of Principles | plan to create a Palestinian government |
| Immigration Act of 1965 | abolished national origins quota system |
| migration chains | newcomers send for their relatives |
| amnesty | pardon and legal status |
| Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 | penalties for employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants |
| globalism | interconnectivity throughout the world |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement |
| APEC | Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation |
| WTO | World Trade Organization |
| euro | common currency in the EU |
| EU | European Union |
| global warming | increase in average world temperatures |
| Kyoto Protocol | promise to reduce carbon dioxide emissions; Treaty not signed by the U.S. |
