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

To: NickSE who wrote (8243)	8/22/1999 1:55:00 AM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Anyone have a link refering to the percentage of ingredients which the US imports to produce their drugs? (80% comes to mind) FEATURE-Drug industry moves to calm Y2K fears infoseek.go.com CHICAGO, Aug. 20 (Reuters) - While others worry about the Y2K bug infecting computers, the drug and health care products industry is grappling with the possibility that panicky consumers could cause shortages as 2000 nears. [...] DRUG HOARDING 'WOULD THROW THE SYSTEM OUT OF WHACK' ''If everyone were to get an extra month, it would throw (the system) out of whack,'' said Mark Grayson, spokesman for the drug industry trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), which is also part of the alliance. ''Once the medications are in somebody's medicine cabinet, they're obviously not available to anybody else.''..... Thanks, Nick

To: NickSE who wrote (8243)	8/22/1999 4:30:00 AM
From: Ken	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Well done, Maddog, on your interceding, which has apparently, and hopefully, helped solve the Ron-Ken 'tiff' here, once and for all! On the Ron-Rarebird 'tiff' which you are also trying to help fix, I have a suggestion on that one. You addressed your request to Rarebird, only. He wasn't the one to initiate that problem either, obviously, so I believe it is incorrect to address your request to Rarebird, or at least to only him, as that may imply that he was the initiator of that problem , or was the 'bad guy' in that case, which he certainly wasn't. So, in the interests of getting both the adversarial parties involved, I suggest addressing your request also to Ron, and also for the purpose of getting both their consents, as you did with us both. IMHO Maybe you ought to become the peacemaker- designate of this thread :) Looks like there is a third 'tiff' for you to fix up also, that three-way female one that occured yesterday, Mr. Peacemaker! <vbg>