Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When 2000 arrives, our undoing won't be a massive computer problem [Y2KY2KY2KY2KY2KY2K, Jan. 18] but the public's senseless panic triggered by the radical sensationalism surrounding the issue today. Instead of fueling fear, the media should reassure people that the new millennium is not something to be dreaded. But it may be too late. Just imagine what lies in store economically if terrified individuals begin making drastic withdrawals from bank accounts and selling off stocks. We would be better off sitting tight, staying calm and letting the computer programmers do their job rather than getting ready for a Judgment...
What worries me most is the families you profiled in your millennium-bug cover. One has two rifles, a shotgun and a handgun. Another is buying rolls of toilet paper in Arkansas. While these people are shooting it out over the last piece of toilet tissue on New Year's Day, my family and I will be comfortably watching the Rose Bowl parade with all of our electric appliances working just fine. DOUGLAS A. HIKADE Mount Laurel...
...MILLENNIUM MADNESS...
Hosting the first convention of the new millennium seems like a natural step for Boston, according to the mayor's office...
...group of Americans already exemplifies that future. The Millennium Generation, today's 15-to-25-year-olds, is the most racially mixed generation this country has ever seen. Its members are 60% more likely to be nonwhite than those of their parents' and grandparents' generations, and an increasing number are racially mixed. A third are black, Latino, Asian or Native American. And the two-thirds who are white have grown up with more exposure to people of other races, through school, sports, dating and the media...