Word: y2k
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Armani maintains that the company is on track for a glorious Y2K. Unlike competitors Gucci and Prada, Armani has been spending his cash--some $650 million in 1999--not on acquisitions but on tightening his control over the way his products are made, displayed and sold. Last month he bought two of the Italian factories that produce his signature White Label collection from conglomerate GFT, and he recently established an office in Singapore to run his Asian business. He has also bought back the franchise for his stores in Japan. The new accessories collection should be very lucrative, the company...
...wait, before you rush to fill your fallout shelter with Y2K leftovers, there are a few things worth knowing about nuclear secrets in general. Even if evil powers have gotten their hands on the blueprints to nuclear warheads, it's not as if they're an Erector Set away from building the bomb. After all, the general recipe has been widely accessible for decades, with the basics (if not the quantities) even available on the Internet. "This stuff isn't going to help anyone build a nuclear arsenal," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "But if it fell into...
...mayor 14. New computer virus, the __ Bug 15. Look after 16. ALF and Mork, for short 17. On the main 18. Label that is removing 40-Down from its top spot 20. He and Blair made another bid to revive the peace process 21. The White House has blamed Y2K for problems with this 24. He phoned Juan Miguel on May Day 28. Navy bombing range that was the site of a protest 33. The State Department has identified South--as a terrorism hub 34. My --, site of a '60s wartime atrocity 35. This bear can be major or minor...
DOOMSDAY PREDICTION Y2K, the millennium bug, would cause financial chaos or nuclear holocaust...
...book, and its promoters, are interested in. A quick Internet search for "5/5/2000" brings up a company called The Survival Center, which maintains a website for the author and sells copies, posters and videos as well as other books with contradictory cataclysmic predictions for the millennium. It also sells Y2K-era survivalist equipment--food, water, medical equipment, underground shelter kits--all the while telling readers how to survive the catastrophes by ordering "Basic Preparedness," which is $16.95 plus $2.95 shipping and handling...