The story of the year was a weak economy that could have been much, much weaker. How the mild-mannered man who runs the Federal Reserve prevented an economic catastrophe

Persons of Years Past

Peter Ueberroth

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1984
The man behind the Los Angeles Olympics

"Being TIME's Person of the Year was a gold medal for our 30,000-plus volunteers from Southern California. We developed a new model for the Games and proved that in a free society, anything is possible."

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