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...legislation) and its friends among trial lawyers and consumer groups (who just as aggressively opposed it), the Clinton administration accepted the latest compromise bill after some last-minute wavering and tinkering. The final measure tries to encourage mediation and gives companies a 90-day period to fix a computer glitch before a plaintiff can file suit. It also caps punitive damages for small businesses, limits class-action lawsuits and in most cases holds companies liable only for the damage they cause...
...proposed bill would encourage mediation and give companies a 90-day period to fix a computer glitch before a plaintiff could file suit. There would be a punitive-damages cap for small businesses, and companies would be held liable only for the portion of damage they cause. ?Both sides would get something,? says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. Industry would get some protections, but, he says ?the bill would still leave a lot of room for people to go to court.? Some key Democrats, however, want the President to keep insisting that that room be kept as large as possible...
...posed myriad safety problems. For example, the computers used by the Harvard University Police Department were vulnerable to the glitch, as was the keycard system that is supposed to let Harvard students into their dorms and keep intruders...
...Harvard Management Company (HMC), which invests the University's endowment, has been testing rigorously to make sure the records of their investments will not be lost as a result of the computer glitch...
Huidekoper says the great surprise of the Y2K glitch for Harvard was that its effect on important University functions went well beyond its basic computer software. Computer chips that are not programmed for the millennium control many more functions than officials expected...