Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frenzy over the Y2K computer problem continues, officials at the School of Public Health (SPH) are preparing the nation for a different sort of danger this holiday season--drunk driving...
Unfortunately, viaticals have attracted con artists the way blood does leeches, and regulators are contemplating halting, or at least restricting, the practice. The problem is with folks like Davis, indicted on fraud and other charges by a Dallas County grand jury last summer. He persuaded scores of unsuspecting Texans to shell out millions on supposedly low-risk, guaranteed investments in viaticals offered by his Dallas-based company, First American Fidelity Corp. But authorities say the policies were fraudulently obtained for the express purpose of reselling them, an increasingly common practice dubbed cleansheeting. Davis allegedly solicited HIV-positive...
...which claimed to pay 14% on a one-year maturity. "We wanted to have a sound investment, retire and have some peace and tranquillity," says Linke. After the first few quarterly payments arrived from the company, the money suddenly stopped coming. Liberte Capital blames its escrow agent for the problem. Now Linke and her fellow investors' money is frozen while a court-appointed receiver tries to resolve the dispute...
...DRAG Some DVD players may have trouble keeping audio and video in synch. Most manufacturers will fix the problem for free. Ask about it at the store when...
...assisted jets, nuclear power plants and electricity-supply lines at the moment '99 rolls over into '00. A flurry of bug- fixing and Y2K-readiness reports over the past year seems to have lulled most of us into a what-me-worry? coma, but it hasn't made the problem go away. There are untold millions of embedded chips and creaky old computer systems that will continue to keep track of the date in terms of two-digit years, and no one can predict with certainty how many of our silicon friends will freak out when both digits suddenly come...