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The Oxford English Dictionary has 16 words with first citations from 1998. In that year, Suharto resigns the presidency of Indonesia after thirty-two years in office; India and Pakistan conduct a series of nuclear weapons tests; the Second Congo War begins, which will to go on to become the bloodiest since World War II; Hugo Chavez is elected president of Venezuela; U. S. Senator John Glenn returns to space aboard the space shuttle Discovery, at seventy-seven the oldest person to go into orbit; the game show The Price is Right airs its five thousandth episode; and singer Frank Sinatra dies.