Word: y2k
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most of us will never have to escape from a sinking car or figure out how to get down from the top of a moving train, but that doesn't mean we can't worry about it. Y2K was a bust, but anxiety is still America's leading psychiatric disorder. "We're living in about the safest times in human history, yet people seem to be more afraid than ever before," says Barry Glassner, a sociologist and the author of The Culture of Fear. "This book works right off the prevailing ethos that you should be afraid...
...making money." Last January, reflecting on the difficulties of campaigning in enemy territory, he said that "all the farmers in the field ran away as if someone with AIDS was knocking on their door." In February, he asserted that the Americans had all "bought guns" in preparation for the Y2K bug "because when electrical power fails in the U.S., the gangs and murderers come out. Such is American society." Last month he charged that teachers in Okinawa were communist-controlled subversives...
...According to Huidekoper, the University needed the new system before the New Year to be Y2K compliant. July 1 was picked to coincide with the beginning of the University's fiscal year...
...necessary to do because of the central needs of compliance and Y2K, but it has not been a time-saver. It has the potential to be a wonderful system, but we aren't there...
...merger is the largest Y2K threat yet to emerge. This so-called legal consolidation taking place right before our eyes illustrates just how arrogant corporate America has become in its quest to control communication to all. BRAD HUNT Crested Butte, Colo...