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To: Bill Ounce who wrote (148)	11/16/1999 10:16:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (1) of 198

computerworld -- It's Only a Movie, But Y2K Raises Real Concerns computerworld.com By Kathleen Melymuka 11/15/99 Sure it's only make-believe, but concerns raised by a forthcoming NBC movie about year 2000 are real. Y2K, scheduled to air on NBC Sunday night, is billed as a suspense thriller about a year 2000 troubleshooter trying, as the network bills it, to "save the world from catastrophic disaster" on New Year's Eve. But the film is causing headaches for a variety of industries. "A movie that exacerbates fears or plays to people's darker side will result in lots of money being spent by industries just protecting themselves," said John Castagna, a spokesman for the Edison Electric Institute, a Washington-based trade group for the electric power industry. [...]

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