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15. Azim Premji, Wipro Ltd. $18.2 billion Wipro Ltd. Chairman Azim Premji listens to a question from a journalist after announcing the company's quarterly financial results at the firm's headquarters in Bangalore, India, Tuesday, July 24, 2012. Wipro's June quarter profit rose 18 percent from a year earlier but it said growth would stall as economic uncertainty in Europe and the US, both crucial export markets, hits India's multibillion dollar outsourcing industry, sending its shares into a tailspin. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
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5. Larry Page, Google, 43.9 billion Alphabet CEO Larry Page speaks at the Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco. Some of Alphabet's gains evaporated late Thursday, April 21, 2016, after the company announced first-quarter earnings and revenue that fell below analyst projections. The first-quarter performance will once again test Page's long-held belief that investors should be looking at the big picture instead of fixating on much a company's earnings rise and fall from one quarter to the next. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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3. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, $69.9 billion Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks about "News Tab" at the Paley Center, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019 in New York. The new feature in the Facebook mobile app will display headlines — and nothing else — from the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, Business Insider, NBC, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times, among others.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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10. Michael Dell, Dell computers, $22.4 billion Dell CEO Michael Dell smiles at Oracle Open World conference in San Francisco. Dell Inc. is making a late push to win shareholder support for founder Michael Dell’s plan to take the slumping computer maker private, an indication that the scheduled vote, Thursday, July 18, 2013, could be close. Supporters of the $24.4 billion buyout believe Dell Inc. stands a better chance of turning around if it can make long-term strategic decisions without worrying about meeting Wall Street’s quarter-to-quarter expectations. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
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14. Lee Kun-Hee, Samsung, $18.3 billion Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee speaks during a press conference at the Samsung Group headquarters in Seoul, Tuesday, April 22, 2008. Lee said Tuesday he was stepping down from his post at the top of South Korea's biggest conglomerate following his indictment on tax evasion charges.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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1. Bill Gates, Microsoft, $84.5 billion Bill Gates smiles while being interviewed in Kirkland, Wash. Bill and Melinda Gates are pushing back against a new wave of criticism about whether billionaire philanthropy is a force for good. The couple, whose foundation has the largest endowment in the world, said they’re not fazed by recent blowback against wealthy giving, including viral moments at the World Economic Forum and the shifting political conversation about taxes and socialism. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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8. Ma Huateng, Tencent (internet media), $36.7 billion Ma Huateng, chairman and CEO of Tencent Holdings Ltd., speaks during a press conference to announce his companies' annual results in Hong Kong. The company co-founded by Ma in 1998 has gone from success to success, first in online games, then with its QQ instant message service and now as operator of the hugely popular WeChat social media platform, which it says has 550 million active users. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
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4. Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp. (software), $59.3 billion Oracle CEO Larry Ellison gestures while giving a keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. Ellison bought a small Hawaii airline Tuesday, Feb, 26, 2013, less than a year after he bought most of the Hawaiian island of Lanai. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
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Can you match the songs to the musicals? (Shutterstock)
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In this Nov. 20, 2018, file photo, a U.S. flag flies outside New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File )
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Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Wednesday that the Senate made "some progress" in recent days toward completing the appropriations process. The Senate did not hold an anticipated vote on a stopgap spending resolution. (Associated Press)
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DNC Focus Group (Illustration by Michael Ramirez for Creators Syndicate)
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This year, nearly 90 cities achieved the Human Rights Campaign's Municipal Equality Index's highest score. At the beginning of the decade, only 11 cities did so. The index scores cities on a variety of issues, including employment, housing and public restrooms. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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An international study trip on infrastructure and economic development, led in September by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, chair of the National Governors Association, included a stop at Port Botany, a deepwater seaport in Botany Bay in Sydney, Australia. Photo courtesy of the Executive Office of the Governor.
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Electric Vehicle Charging Station sign
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Webbers Falls Lock and Dam in eastern Oklahoma is one of 18 locks and dams in the 445-mile McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System (MKARNS). The system supports agricultural and other commercial activity worth $3.5 billion a year. Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Tulsa District.
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Lionel Ritchie received his bachelor’s in economics at the Tuskegee Institute in 1974.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger earned a Bachelor of Science in International Business and Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Superior.
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Natalie Portman received a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Harvard University.
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Aziz Ansari earned a Bachelor’s in Marketing from New York University