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

To: Ken Salaets who wrote (3607)	2/3/1999 2:45:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

<<<<PANIC ITSELF IS A PROBLEM >>>> Drug companies prepare for Y2K..... msnbc.com I wonder if posting doom and gloom predictions will be part of the panic? Hummmmm.......

To: Ken Salaets who wrote (3607)	2/3/1999 3:05:00 PM
From: flatsville	Respond to of 9818

Yet more on ominous news on those pesky global linkages/interdependencies. I suppose someone from the other side of the argument (gas comes from the gas station crowd) should call Tenet, Gershwin and some of these "intelligence" types and tell the to lighten up. This type of y2k "hype" could cause serious concern if not outright panic. Their VCRs will work just fine...I mean what? ______________________________________________________________________ Europe could face natural gas shortage because of the Y2K bug: CIA WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (AFP) - Europe could face a natural gas shortage if its largest supplier, Russia's Gazprom, fails to eradicate the millenium bug, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director George Tenet said Tuesday. Speaking before the Senate's armed services committee, Tenet warned that the Y2K bug could interrupt energy flows "in certain countries." He cited Europe as a potential victim of the millenium bug because it receives "more than one-third" of its natural gas from Russia. "In our judgment, foreign countries trail the United States in addressing the Y2K problems by at least several months, and in many cases by much longer," he said. "The lowest level of Y2K preparedness is evident in eastern Europe, Russia, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and several Asian countries, including China," he added. pg/gtk/dkb AFP 022119 GMT FEB 99 (via the South African Press Association's wire service)