Today's News Brief...

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...in case you may have missed anything.

From Sanger & Shannon's Review of Y2K News Reports

Federal Reserve hikes overnight rate to 5.25 percent ... Food and Drug Administration "sees no widespread problems" with medical devices, "as long as the solutions now offered by manufacturers are implemented" ... Electronic Funds Transfer Association reassures that ATM's will work ... Thai military planted story in the press to get funding ... Pakistan Computer Bureau officials are worried about the healthcare sector ... London Metal Exchange postpones implementing new index until next year ... Quayle urges Clinton to take steps to shield the economy from Y2K; peg the dollar to gold ... Colorado lawmakers vote down emergency appropriation for embedded chips ... German citizen buys rights to "Y2K" -- offers them on Ebay ... Australian telephone system testing ...

-- pshannon (pshannon@sangersreview.com), August 25, 1999


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