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Tables of Contents for Facing Millenium Midnight
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
vii
Chapter One Happy New Year
January 1, 2000, 7:10 AM
3
3
9:15 AM
6
2
9:45 AM
8
3
Counting Down to Millennial Midnight
11
2
What Is Y2K?
13
6
The Hundred-Year Gap
19
5
Greatest Crisis in History?
24
1
Waking Up in the Dark
25
12
Chapter Two
January 3, 2000, 8:00 AM-Monday
37
5
4:15 PM
42
1
6:00 PM
43
5
The Cascade Effect
48
5
Garbage in---Garbage Out
53
2
Electronic Prozac
55
4
Chapter Three
Friday, January 7, 2000, 7:15 PM
59
5
Can It Really Get This Bad?
64
4
The Only Silver Bullets Belong to the Lone Ranger
68
3
What About Bill Gates?
71
2
A World Without Telephones
73
3
A Millennium War?
76
3
The NOARD Test
79
2
Smart Bombs Get Stupid
81
4
Chapter Four
Monday, January 10, 2000
85
3
Joe Everyman
88
3
20th Century Toys or 21st Century Junk?
91
2
Don't Look to Washington
93
3
But the Government Says Not to Worry
96
5
Chapter Five The Pre-Millennium Bug
The Beeper Blackout
101
1
In God We Trust, Others Pay Cash
102
2
The Pre-Millennium Bug(s)
104
1
01/01/99-Let the Testing Begin!
105
1
The Waiting Game
106
1
Gee, Thanks!
106
2
Will We Make It?
108
2
01/04/99
110
2
01/07/99
112
1
22/08/99
112
5
09/09/99
117
8
Chapter Six Whistling in the Dark
Gauging the Threat
125
1
The ``Non-Event'' Scenario
125
1
Reality Check
126
2
Mission Critical Systems of Federal Departments and Agencies
128
6
The Temporary Inconvenience Scenario
134
1
The Partial Disruption Scenario
135
1
Brownout
135
6
The Case for the Brownout Scenario
141
2
The Blackout Scenario
143
1
The Great Depression Revisited
144
1
The Farm Bill of 1933
145
2
You Can't Eat Money
147
1
Don't Get Sick
148
3
Meltdown
151
2
No Government to Help
153
2
So, Which Is It?
155
7
Chapter Seven Y2K and the Global Economy
Easy Come, Easy Go
162
2
Get Out of Debt-Now!
164
1
The Emperor Has No Clothes
165
2
Too Little, Too Late
167
2
A Bug in the Hedges
169
2
The Corporate Y2K Report Card
171
3
What Do the Experts Say?
174
9
Chapter Eight Toward A New (ER) World Order
Some Success Story!
183
2
The Global Report Card
185
1
Missing the Point
186
3
Who's Afraid of a Little Bug?
189
6
Denial Is Not a River in Egypt
195
1
What About Japan?
196
2
Dragon Their Feet
198
3
Panic in the Streets
201
4
Millennium Madness?
205
2
Going Global
207
1
Let's Get Gorby!
208
1
Sounds Familiar, Somehow!
209
8
Chapter Nine Thinking the Unthinkable
What You Don't Know Will Hurt You
217
1
How's That Again?
218
3
Kind of Critical, Anyway!
221
1
Not Another Conspiracy Theory!
222
4
The Technology Administration?
226
2
Direct and Kind of Stern!
228
7
Chapter Ten Now that you Know, Now What?
If=Then
235
3
Assess the Threat
238
3
How Long Will the Crisis Last?
241
3
Prepare for the Unexpected
244
2
Develop a Checklist
246
1
Y2K Survival-The Basics
246
4
Your Y2K Checklist
250
1
I Don't Feel So Good!
251
2
Financial Preparations
253
2
Rounding Out Your List
255
2
What About Rover?
257
1
Epilogue
257
8
Endnotes
265