Word: y2k
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...short, it's October again, and investors are behaving like idiots again. This time last year it was the Y2K bug; the year before, presidential impeachment and the collapse of hedge fund Long-Term Capital; the year before that, the plunging Thai baht and Asian contagion. None of those crises proved catastrophic to U.S. stocks...
...Madison Square Garden designed to drain the tear ducts of anyone who has ever even considered humming The Way We Were. She duetted with a videotaped Frank Sinatra on I've Got a Crush on You, bantered (albeit with aid from a TelePrompTer) with Shirley MacLaine about the Y2K virus, and dedicated a love song to husband James ("Double A-beep-beep-M-C-O") Brolin. In an emotional high point, Streisand related that someone recently sent her a love letter written by her father, whom she never knew, when he was a young man. And yes, that woman, Esther...
...products and services. He has sponsored bills to reduce the number of lawsuits by workplace victims of asbestos and to eliminate legal claims for pain and suffering by car-accident victims in return for lower insurance rates. He also fought for procedural hurdles and caps on suits resulting from Y2K failures...
Both political parties and their presidential candidates have been bidding shamelessly for high-tech affections, and e-companies have won a string of victories in Congress as a result. These include a moratorium on new taxes on e-commerce, limitations on lawsuits against firms involved in Y2K glitches, and a bill that accepts the validity of personal signatures sent over...
...taken some anxious years of real-world experience for people to figure out that crypto turned loose in cyberspace will not make the world blow up. Crypto's more or less around and available now, and no, it's not an explosive munition. The threats were overblown, much like Y2K. The rhetoric of all sides has been crazily provocative...