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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ken who wrote (7382)	7/29/1999 11:11:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

U.S. Plans Y2K Bunker, Clinton Aide To Tell Senate << The government is setting up an unprecedented command center to cope with any year 2000 emergencies, President Clinton's top trouble-shooter for the issue prepared to tell Congress Thursday. In a draft statement, John Koskinen, head of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, said federal authorities were urging critical U.S. industries to join in by funneling updates on their systems to the government. '' While monitoring and collecting information on system operations across the globe ... has never been tried before, I am confident that the structure we have put in place '' will work, he said. Koskinen said the focus of his work was shifting to '' event management '' to deal with possible disruptions caused by confused computers. >> ... more at ... dailynews.yahoo.com Probably staffed with plenty of young interns! < vbg > John