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To: Pancho Villa who wrote (8193)12/2/1997 7:04:00 PM
From: Josef Svejk  Respond to of 13949
 
Humble suggestion, try to write it off as a business expense? This year anyway, 'cause, well . . .

forbes.com

ARTHUR GROSS, Chief Information Officer at the IRS, [has said] that the IRS might fail to fix its [computer changeover to the year 2000] problem and that the consequences of such a failure could be a calamity for the government and the economy.

"I would advise you to fine-tune your 1999 tax withholding so that you won't be waiting for a refund check in 2000." -Dr. Edward Yardeni, chief economist, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell.


From tax - segue to anthrax - same page, naturally:

EXPERTS BELIEVE that an international black market in deadly organisms has developed and that Iraq may possess engineered, antibiotic-resistant strains of anthrax and Black Death, as well as botulinum toxin and the Ebola virus.

Nope, not surprised.

Svejk



To: Pancho Villa who wrote (8193)12/2/1997 8:09:00 PM
From: paul e thomas  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 13949
 
Was SI ever free ?