Word: y2k
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...have neighbors in Livingston, Mont., who have geared up for every potential Armageddon since the Cuban missile crisis. From the cold war to the Gulf War to Y2K (how quaint it seems now, that odd abbreviation), a certain vocal minority hereabouts has been hoarding ammunition, boiling water and stockpiling gold coins in hopes of riding out some vast calamity that will devastate the unprepared while leaving savvy country folk untouched. That was the vision, at least, until last month, when the attacks on New York City and Washington proved to all but the most stubborn of mountain dwellers that that...
...fact, every virus has been a letdown: Melissa; the Love Bug; Michelangelo; BubbleBoy; the Sniffling, Sneezing, Aching, Stuffy-Head, Fever Virus. Even Y2K turned into nothing. Which is good, except that I'm still eating milletloaf every night...
...fact, every virus has been a letdown: Melissa; the Love Bug; Michelangelo; BubbleBoy; the Sniffling, Sneezing, Aching, Stuffy-Head, Fever Virus. Even Y2K turned into nothing. Which is good, except that I?m still eating milletloaf every night...
...equally conceivable that the worst isn't over. The great unknowable is the significance of American businesses' overinvestment from 1998 to 2000. The buying spree was fueled by the Y2K frenzy, hype that the Internet was the greatest thing since the electric light, and a stock market that rewarded companies that predicted outrageous demand for their products. The overhang of those purchases may depress business investment for another year, however cheap the Fed makes it to borrow...
That’s what he said to me. He paused after the first word, as if searching for the perfect object for his modifier. New Year is what he came up with. It is not the academic New Year. It is not the Christian New Year or the Y2K New Year. It is not the Chinese New Year. It is not the fiscal New Year. I, bewildered, replied in kind and my friends and I went our way, up to the balcony to sing, where we offered our official greeting to the President, a 20-second Latin chorus...