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Yahoo - Less than Half of Water Systems May Be Prepared for Y2K; Government Panels Misinterpreted Key Information, Says ReportHome - Yahoo! - Help[ Business | US Market | By Industry | IPO | AP | S&P | International | PRNews | BizWire | CCN ] Related Quotes^DJI^IXIC^SPC^IIX^PSE11224.703620.281417.04532.75827.50 +89.91+26.11+8.93+11.70+3.64delayed 20 mins - disclaimerFriday December 10, 1:56 pm Eastern TimeCompany Press ReleaseSOURCE: Center for Y2K and SocietyLess than Half of Water Systems May Be Prepared for Y2K; Government Panels Misinterpreted Key Information, Says Report WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Surveys of drinking-water and wastewater facilities by industry groups indicate that, at ...

Reason Magazine -- Suing Gun Makers Breaking Issue      Suing Gun Makers Updated: December 8, 1999 First Posted: July 11, 1999 Clinton plans federal gun lawsuit. (12/7) The White House is preparing a class action lawsuit against the gun industry on behalf of local public housing authorities.  The suit would be based upon the same dubious legal theories behind the anti-gun lawsuits filed by 29 municipalities. (A judge recently dismissed one such lawsuit filed by the city of Cincinnati.) More on the gun lawsuits: In 1994, when states started demanding that tobacco companies compensate them for the cost ...

. . . Robert Mundell, 1999 laureat in economics, took as his memoral lecture subject "A Reconsideration fo the Twentieth Century." . . . [Mundell] has been a champion not only of exchange rate stability but of the supply side policy mix that allowed the Reagan administration to subdue the stagflation it inherited in 1981. . . . [According to Mundell] "the absence of gold as an intrinsic part of our monetary system today makes our century, the one that has just passed, unique in several thousand years." . . . The gold standard worked . . . because of ...

Vice President Al Gore would be his first choice, but if a Republican had to be elected president, environmental powerhouse Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would hope it would be Arizona's Sen. John McCain. Texas, under Gov. George W. Bush, is an environmental disaster, said Kennedy, chief lawyer for the National Resources Defense Council. Although Kennedy considers McCain's overall environmental record poor, McCain supports campaign finance reform, which Kennedy considers an environmental issue. Kennedy said that under Gore's leadership, the Clinton administration preserved 30 years of federal environmental law, fighting a successful "rear guard action" against the Republican-controlled Congress. "The ...

Former Republican national chair Haley Barbour and Tommy Boggs, lead purveyor of corporate lawyers to the Clinton administration, are opening a $3 million, 240-seat Washington restaurant together. Minority investors include Terry "Sure I'll Sign That Note for You Bill" McAuliffe and tall GOP lawyer C. Boyden Gray. They're all lobbyists who presumably will save considerable cab fare by having their congressional victims not only come to them, but pay for the pleasure of being manipulated -- a sort of S&M club for politicians. Oakland mayor Jerry Brown told the Washington Post of the deal, "At least it has the virtue ...

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Hey All, I got this in the e-mail today and thought I would forward it to fellow patriots. In the early morning hours of Monday, November 8th, 1999, some of our nation's children let us know what they think of our nation, this cradle of liberty, this land of truth and justice. They stealthily surrounded a small military memorial in a small town near Rochester, New York, they poured flammable liquids on it, and they burned it to the ground. Let me repeat that: they burned it to the ground. In this nation, where we protect to the highest ...

Reagan the Patriot, Meet Clinton and His Legacy Bandleader Guy Lombardo once said that when he died he was going to take New Year's Eve with him. Perhaps the same can be said about Ronald Reagan and patriotism. When Reagan delivered his presidential farewell address to the nation in January 1989, he issued an Eisenhower-type warning about the future, which most Americans have by now forgotten. He cautioned that what he termed the "new patriotism" that swept the country in the 1980s would fade unless it was reinforced by constant reminders of America's past and present greatness. After almost eight ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Climbing out of debt, the Democratic National Committee hopes to raise at least $100 million to help its presidential nominee avoid political bankruptcy in the face of George W. Bush's fund-raising juggernaut.p> ``We'll have enough money,'' DNC executive director Rob Engel said. The party expects to virtually wipe out its longstanding debt this month, and start with a clean fund-raising slate for 2000. Still, party regulars are privately expressing fear that the Democratic nominee will be steamrolled by Bush if the Texas governor wins the GOP contest. Engel and his boss, DNC national chairman Joe Andrew, said ...

Published 12/10/99 Is Taiwan going nuclear? By Edward Timperlake/William Triplett IIOn Dec. 8, Taiwan's highly capable vice president, the Hon. Lien Chan, told a military audience that Taiwan should develop its own "long-range ground-to-ground" missiles capable of withstanding an attack by China's People's Liberation Army. He did not use the word "nuclear" but a Taiwan missile program of this type would be provocative without being effective as a deterrent if it is not nuclear-armed. Why would the Republic of China's government make such an extraordinary policy change? The answer lies in another event of Dec. 8. On that day The ...

References: Final announcement of meeting and 12/8/99 AP article on gigantic push by the greens to restrict or eliminate off-road vehicle use and this article which deals with what is happening in Nevada right now and this article which is a vile piece of green propaganda dressed up as news about other Forest Service meetings. Here are 4 examples of the propaganda handed out at the meeting: Exhibit A Exhibit B Exhibit C Exhibit D I found out about this meeting by reading the Federal Register (which i now make a daily practice). Being aware of the issue for more ...

WASHINGTON (December 10, 1999 3:38 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Fired scientist Wen Ho Lee was indicted Friday for removing nuclear secrets from a secured computer at the Los Alamos weapons lab where he once worked, government officials said. FBI agents immediately arrested Lee at his home outside of Los Alamos, N.M. He was being taken to Albuquerque for an initial appearance later Friday before a federal magistrate, said FBI Special Agent Doug Beldon. The indictment, which was expected to be unsealed later Friday, was issued by a federal grand jury in Albuquerque at the request of U.S. Attorney John Kelly. ...

Reagan the Patriot, Meet Clinton and His Legacy Presidencies: Reagan inspired a love of America. Clinton's presidency is more self-absorbed. By DOUG GAMBLE Bandleader Guy Lombardo once said that when he died he was going to take New Year's Eve with him. Perhaps the same can be said about Ronald Reagan and patriotism. When Reagan delivered his presidential farewell address to the nation in January 1989, he issued an Eisenhower-type warning about the future, which most Americans have by now forgotten. He cautioned that what he termed the "new patriotism" that swept the country in the 1980s would fade unless ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Anarchist protesters climbed onto the Lenin mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square, a rare demonstration at the holy of holies of the former Soviet Union. A Moscow police spokesman said five young protesters climbed onto the squat, red marble building which has housed the mummified corpse of the first Soviet leader, Vladimir Lenin, since 1924. In an apparently pointless prank they climbed to the top of the building to stand where Soviet leaders used to watch tanks, soldiers and missiles parade across Red Square in annual commemoration of the Bolshevik Revolution. The protesters draped a white banner with ...

"It is sad but true," House impeachment manager James E. Rogan (R-Calif.) wrote a supporter, "that I am under constant attack by Bill Clinton and his vast array of leftist liberal allies because I did my constitutional duty . . . alongside Chairman [Henry J.] Hyde [R-Ill.]." "I'm sure you have heard of Clinton's promise to defeat me in the next election," Rogan said in the Sept. 29 fund-raising appeal, "because of his desire for revenge for his self-inflicted embarrassment. And Bill Clinton has sounded the trumpet calling his left-wing friends to help carry out his threat of revenge." Rogan ...

  Report: H.S. Diplomas Inadequate By Anjetta McQueen AP Education Writer Thursday, Dec. 9, 1999; 1:21 p.m. EST WASHINGTON –– With high school requirements that ignore advanced math and reading skills, many graduates are finding themselves unprepared for college and the work world, according to a report Thursday criticizing state education standards. "Many American young people are totally undone by the gaps between high school and college," said Kati Haycock, director of Washington-based Education Trust, which examines state academic standards and prepared the report. For graduates who turn to the world of work – two-thirds of high school graduates ...

Presidencies: Reagan inspired a love of America. Clinton's presidency is more self-absorbed. Bandleader Guy Lombardo once said that when he died he was going to take New Year's Eve with him. Perhaps the same can be said about Ronald Reagan and patriotism. When Reagan delivered his presidential farewell address to the nation in January 1989, he issued an Eisenhower-type warning about the future, which most Americans have by now forgotten. He cautioned that what he termed the "new patriotism" that swept the country in the 1980s would fade unless it was reinforced by constant reminders of America's past and ...

SEATTLE (Reuters) - U.S. billionaires Bill Gates and Craig McCaw Friday said they will give Nelson Mandela's charities $30 million, wrapping up the former South African president's three-day Seattle visit. Through their own charitable foundations, Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., and McCaw, a telecommunications pioneer, each gave $15 million to two Mandela funds promoting health care, education and economic development in Africa. Mandela, 81, will fly to Orlando to meet U.S. President Clinton Saturday and discuss peace plans for the Middle East. not for commercial use

LONDON –– Amnesty International on Friday called for an inquiry into police action during demonstrations in Seattle against the World Trade Organization. The international human rights group said in a statement that it was concerned about allegations of indiscriminate use of tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets and noisemakers. The group also called for an investigation into allegations of cruel treatment at Seattle's King County Jail of some of the hundreds of arrested protesters. It said some of the alleged incidents, such as the use of restraint chairs and beatings, appeared to have violated international human rights standards. "One person ...

FBI Agents Arrest Physicist Lee WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI agents on Friday arrested physicist Wen Ho Lee, a key figure in a scandal over allegations that China stole U.S. nuclear secrets, for mishandling classified information and other charges, U.S. officials said. They said Lee, a nuclear weapons scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory who was fired in March for alleged security violations, was arrested in New Mexico without incident.