| A | B |
|---|
| William Jefferson Clinton | elected president in 1992 |
| H. Ross Perot | third party candidate for president in 1992 |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | appointed by President Clinton to head efforts on health care reform |
| North American Free Trade Agreement | created a free trade zone for Canada, the United States and Mexico |
| Newt Gingrich | Republican Congressman who led opposition to Bill Clinton's policies |
| Contract with America | statement of Republican goals for the 1994 election |
| Kenneth Starr | independent prosecutor charged to invetigate the President for potential financial wrong doing in Arkansas |
| Al Gore | Democrat, Clinton Vice President who ran for President in 2000 |
| George W. Bush | Republican who defeated Gore for president in 2000 |
| service sector | part of the economy that provides services to consumers |
| down-size | the practice of trimming payrolls by laying off workers and streamlining operations |
| Bill Gates | software mogul who turned computer technology into a huge personal fortune |
| NASDAQ | technology dominated stock index on Wall Street |
| dotcoms | technology companies that boomed in the 90s |
| General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade | treaty that lowered tariffs and established |
| WTO (World Trade Organization) | organization fomed to resolve trade disputes |
| information superhighway | a network of communictions devices linking people across the nation and the world |
| Internet | international network linking computers |
| telecommute | to work out of one's home instead of going to the office every day |
| Telecommunications Act of 1996 | removed barriers that prevented one type of communications company from owning anothr related one |
| genetic engineering | artifical changing of DNA to alter an organism |
| urban flight | process in which Americans left cities for the suburbs |
| gentrification | process of rehabilitating old neighborhoods in big cities, sometimes displacing long time residents |
| Proposition 187 | California proposal to cut educational and nonemergency health benefits to illegal aliens |
