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

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (5262)	4/5/1999 11:13:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Respond to of 9818

Workers Denied Vacation for YK2 Bug y2ktoday.com ASSOCIATED PRESS -- Merrill Lynch, with 64,000 employees worldwide, has asked managers and other key personnel not to take time off from Dec. 1 through Feb. 15, 2000. -- The DuPage County Sheriff's office, just west of Chicago, has blocked off all of November, December and January for its 530 employees, ranging from deputies to secretaries. -- More than half the 200-plus chief information officers and technology executives polled by CIO magazine earlier this year said they would ban vacations for information technology staffers in the week around New Year's. -- The Federal Reserve, anticipating a surging demand for cash toward year's end, plans to stockpile an extra $200 billion, one-third more than normal, and the Fed branch in Cleveland is asking its 1,200 employees to be available from Dec. 27 to Jan. 10, 2000. Cheryl