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IP: Bennett unveils pension-fund Y2K bill; Hatch on Microsoft
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 12:09:30 -0400
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/more/1,1311,1965,00.html?pg=2&continue=0 time.com / The Netly News May 6, 1998 * * * It didn't take Bob Bennett very long. Just days after his new job as head of a Senate Year 2000 Committee became official, the Republican senator from Utah has proposed a law that he hopes will head off some of the most pernicious effects of the Millennium Bug. Bennett wants to require pension fund managers to consider Y2K problems when deciding where to invest money. "For those entrusted with the responsibility to protect these assets, it is vital that they consider the impact of the millennial date change," he said in a statement yesterday afternoon. (Why people who are capable of reading the increasingly shrill press coverage and reaching their own conclusions need Uncle Sam's guidance was left unsaid.) The bill also lets federal bureaucrats reshuffle budgets and boost the pay of programmers who might be eying greener pastures in the private sector. * * * Utah Senator Orrin Hatch didn't wait for it to actually happen before he slagged Microsoft's pep rally in New York yesterday. The ornery Republican, whose home state includes Microsoft arch-competitor Novell, took to the Senate floor yesterday to suggest the industry veeps who were backing Gates were in fact being coerced by Big Bill. [...snipped...]
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