Some other Y2k 'hypists':
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SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt on Y2k:
' Will our [foreign]
counterparts be ready? I'm not that sure. I said to Corporate America that if
by the end of this year they are not demonstrating their readiness, I would
simply stop doing business with them. . . .
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(Undersecretary of Defense) Hamre said the situation is so grim that the Pentagon is developing a program to share
data from US early-warning satellites with other countries, including Russia and China.
Otherwise, come 2000, such nations may find themselves in the dark, uncertain whether
an attack is coming or not - which, in a crisis, could provoke great anxiety.
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State of Oregon - executive order
state.or.us
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Warning fro Unilever:
The private sector warning came from such business leaders as Bob Bauman,
chairman of British Aerospace; Niall Fitzgerald of Unilever;...
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UK: Utility companies have set up a war cabinet to co-ordinate their contingency
plans to get the UK through the millennium crisis.
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City Of Beverly: help needed on '"hidden" stuff, imbedded chips, traffic
controllers, police and fire equipment'
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'1. Diane Shields - CACI - Submarine Fire Control Systems.
Subsystem vendors go out of business.'
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Shell on shipping:
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'CHAIRMAN ROBERT Bennett, R-Utah, said a survey his office sent to 10 of the
nation's largest electric, oil and gas utilities showed their preparations to ward off Year
2000 bugs were lagging.
Eight of the companies had not even finished assessing their automated systems, a first
step in tackling the problem, Bennett said.
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Tony Blair:
'First, awareness raising. Global awareness of the
problem is patchy. In a recent survey by the World Bank,
only 37 out of 128 borrowing member countries said they
were even aware of the Millennium Bug. Deutsche
Morgan Grenfell point out that only six countries have
established national awareness-raising campaigns like
Action 2000. We need to do far more and the UK can
lead here.
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STOCKHOLM--Sweden may temporarily shut
down its nuclear power plants on the eve of the
new millennium if it can not guarantee their safety
from computer problems arising from the year
2000, the country's safety watchdog said today.
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