Word: koskinen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...profound desire for the whole thing to be over and done with. For those remaining citizens vacillating between panic and nonchalance, the White House released a statement Monday designed to quell any nagging fears: Things will go wrong on December 31, 1999, says Clinton Y2K guru John Koskinen, but the vast majority of mishaps will be due to ordinary, everyday glitches, unrelated to the calendar date...
There are two little black clocks in John Koskinen's office inside the White House complex. They display not the time of day but how much time is left until the Year 2000. Time is something Koskinen desperately needs more of. He's in charge of making sure the U.S. government's computers don't crash come...
...Koskinen's task is not just daunting; it's impossible. The feds own roughly one-quarter of all the computers in the U.S. The Pentagon alone has about 1.5 million machines--and it keeps discovering more. At last count, at least 4,500 of the government's most vital systems still needed to be repaired. And the studied silence of President Clinton and Vice President Gore on the subject isn't making it any easier to raise the alarm. "This is not a technical problem," Koskinen says. Right. It's a people problem: getting top bureaucrats to listen...
...hasn't worked. Last week Representative Steve Horn, perhaps the most Y2K-savvy Congressman, gave Uncle Sam's software failing grades. "Under Koskinen," the California Republican growled in a voice that could give anyone what-if nightmares, "government performance has fallen from a D minus to an F." At current debugging rates, 13 of the 24 largest agencies won't have fixed their most crucial computers in time. Among them...