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    As you can imagine, when you have a problem like that you don't talk about it until you get it fixed. We don't want to give our enemies anymore information than they need.

    The federal government will be ready for the Year 2000.

    And then, of course, the world will open for business on Monday, and that's when we'll test software systems and information processing systems.

    If they didn't fix the systems, they would not be functioning. Somebody said we did it too well, we made it look too easy. Maybe that's right. Maybe we should have had a control group over here failing.

    Some communities and some companies still are deciding that they're going to wait and see (what happens when January 1, 2000 arrives) and we think that's a high risk roll of the dice.


    If anything important happens, obviously we'll talk with the president as well. But at this point, we've agreed that my personal reports will be to the vice president over that weekend.

    I think by the time we get to Tuesday or Wednesday, we'll fold up our tents until we see how the world does on Leap Day on February 29.

    We think the basic infrastructure in the country is going to be in very good shape, banking, finance, telecommunications, electric power, air and rail transportation.

    I think that means that the chances of some unknown or unmanageable catastrophe happening around the world are minimized significantly.

    I don't think there is any way to deal with determining the nature of the threat, protecting against it and having appropriate mechanisms in place without an effective renewal of those partnerships or networks across the economy.

    Information and the exchange of information is a critical part of being able to remediate Y2K problems worldwide.

    We think the adequacy of health care will be fine. You'll get good treatment wherever you go.

    One of the great goals of this meeting was to have people know each other and be able to communicate directly. We don't have time for the normal diplomatic procedures.

    We will not have champagne, but we will try to make sure people can at least take a moment to pause while we enter the new millennium. Everybody will be working hard to see how the country is making the transition.

    This fund will help us rebuild the soccer infrastructure of the Gulf area. We are designing a streamlined grant application process so we can provide as much support to rebuild the game as money will allow.

    It is far too early to declare victory. We have a lot of systems and a lot of countries to go through yet before we'll see what the actual impact has been of the transition.


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