<Li> The Computer (Machine of the Year, 1982) </Li> <Li> The Endangered Earth (Planet of the Year, 1988) </Li> <P> In 1949, Winston Churchill was named "Man of the Half - Century", and the last issue of 1989 named Mikhail Gorbachev as "Man of the Decade". The December 31, 1999 issue of Time named Albert Einstein the "Person of the Century". Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi were chosen as runners - up . </P> <P> Despite the magazine's frequent statements to the contrary, the designation is often regarded as an honor, and spoken of as an award or prize, simply based on many previous selections of admirable people . However, Time magazine points out that controversial figures such as Adolf Hitler (1938), Joseph Stalin (1939 and 1942), Nikita Khrushchev (1957) and Ayatollah Khomeini (1979) have also been granted the title for their impacts . </P>

Who has been designated as the man of the decade by the time magazine