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...many investors are sitting on the sidelines, waiting out the Y2K fiasco. (You know, mayhem that would make Moses proud when computers misread 00 as 1900 on Jan. 1.) Yes, stock prices could unravel if Y2Khaos really occurs, or if anything else for that matter ignites a panic. Can you say higher interest rates? But serious jitters seem a long shot. The market has already stood firm against three interest-rate hikes. As for Y2K, I believe the panic came when tech stocks hit the skids last summer. Done. Finito. The market is now looking well past the millennium, having...
Maybe there's something about being immersed in cyberspace that makes people paranoid. That's one possible explanation, anyway, for the waves of panic emanating Tuesday from a meeting of international business and legal executives in London. The conclusions from the conference, organized to address issues affecting international commerce, led the director of the FBI's national infrastructure center to dire postulations. "Companies and private-sector entities are the new targets for terrorism and acts of war," he told Reuters. Internet crime, he added, is spreading rapidly and will affect everyone...
...comment may have been the obvious palliative to throw out to the legions of labor activists - core Democratic party voters - in Seattle to protest, but it got U.S. trade negotiators in a panic. And with good reason. Within hours of the paper hitting the streets, delegations representing developing countries had dug in their heels, convinced that the world's most powerful trading nation planned to deny many of them their only competitive advantage - cheap labor. They vowed to block any progress on further trade liberalization, and claimed victory when the conference ended in failure late Friday. "Protesters weren...
...several families. Two members of truck company walked up a set of smoky stairs to stretch a hose line to the second floor. Suddenly, they yelled a may-day. A ladder was brought to the second floor--quickly--and the firefighters escaped. They barely escaped injury. And the panic in their voices sticks with me today. This was a "normal" fire--an everyday happening for the men in uniform...
...panic mode or anything, but we want to make sure we are winning games that we are expected to win," Moore said. "We're looking forward to getting back on the winning trail because we want to make winning a habit...