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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...downsizing of new year's Eve is a logical reaction to that conspicuous, late-second-millennium phenomenon: runaway hype. We've seen years of countdowns, retrospectives and magazine special issues. One entrepreneur went as far as to trademark and license the date 01-01-00 for New Year's gewgaws. No sooner did the milestone begin looming than advertisers began trying to persuade us to, say, associate the Roman numeral 2000--MM--with a certain candy-coated chocolate. Even the Y2K problem has morphed from potential cataclysm to commercial punch line: a Nike ad shows a man going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auld Lang Sigh | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...travel industry is seeing this across the board." And reports worldwide bear him out. In Aspen, Colo., tony resorts that would normally have sold out for New Year's week by early November are still unfilled. On Thailand's balmy beaches it's been "the anticlimax of the millennium," says Imtiaz Muqbil, executive editor of Travel Impact Newswire. In London there's a prospect of empty seats greeting the Queen and the Prime Minister as they open the much vaunted Millennium Dome on New Year's Eve, while all six suites in the New York City Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auld Lang Sigh | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...owners in New York City and Miami put up their pads for sublet at five-figure rates (few takers, so far); British star chef Marco Pierre White tried and failed to auction off private parties at his restaurants at Sotheby's in London. Even in this boom time, the millennium is, like Yogi Berra's fabled night spot, so crowded nobody goes there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auld Lang Sigh | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...stay in this New Year's Eve as to go out. Most boil down to one thing: other people. With no basis in nature, the passage of a thousand years is a man-made phenomenon, and so are its attendant worries. The question of how you mark this millennium is partly a question of faith--not religious faith so much as faith in humankind. Faith that people can throng by the hundreds of thousands in the world's metropolises without havoc. Faith that one's fellow humans will not--out of their own faith or some twisted private purpose--seek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auld Lang Sigh | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Sharpton also urged his audience to take advantage of the new millennium to make a clean start and help society rethink old prejudices...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sharpton Sounds Off on Racial Profiling | 11/23/1999 | See Source »

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