1992 Woman of the Year

The newsletter is all for starting new trends. That Barney the Dinosaur thing we did kind of took off right through the roof. So this year we’d like to start what we hope is another long lasting tradition, our end of the year award aptly named, "Woman of the Year." This award will be given to the person who most closely matches the following criteria:

The winner must have affected/effected our organization in a significant way.

The "Woman of the Year" can be a world, national, local or private individual who we feel stands out most among newsmakers of the year.

Employees of the company, and their family are ineligible to be selected.

Any question as to why our finalist was selected can be answered by the philosophy: "Because that person ‘felt’ right to the editor.
We hope some day people will talk about our pick as much as its Tim Magazine counterpart. The "Woman of the Year" award is meant to spark conversation and controversy. Hopefully it will improve us as people, and as a nation.

1992 Woman of the Year

Picking this year’s "Woman of the Year" was a difficult choice. There a lot of qualified candidates. There was the jury of the Rodney King trial whose decision disrupted the already fragile race relations in this country. There was also Ice T, whose response to the situation was to write an equally disturbing message. There was Sinead O’Connor and Madonna who both continue to challenge by stirring up minor "happenings" with their behavior (and product). Of course on any list has to be God, and this year saw its share of "religious" news along with "natural" disasters like Hurricane Andrew.

All this being said, the winner of this year’s Woman of the Year award can be considered a sister to its "Man of the Year" counterpart. With a major surprise in the outcome of the 1992 election, (who could have thought Bush was so beatable?) America has seemingly changed its direction. The winner of the election wasn’t the most important figure in the outcome. Instead, that little billionaire from Texas, H. Ross Perot changed the frame of the entire campaign. By forcing media devotion to the state of the economy, Perot made the race impossible for Bush to survive. It’s no secret big business has been the driving force in this country for some time; but by seriously considering putting a CEO in charge of things, Americans showed that politics as usual is passe. The resulting election and post election economy shows how little faith this country has in the people in Washington D.C. Ross Perot may not have won the election, but he was the major disrupter of the status quo in 1992. Thus he is our Woman of the Year.