The End Of The World As We Know It?
Time Magazine 18Jan99
By Glenn Guilbeau: Advocate sportswriter

The millennium bug could bite VCRs, ICBMs and more. Doomsayers say it's all in God's endgame

LDS Senator Robert Bennett (R, UT), who heads the Senate's Year 2000 committee, sez panicky bank runs could equal computer-generated bank problems. In response, the Fed plans to print up oh, say, $75 billion or so in extra bank notes this year.

And a Utah seller of dehydrated foods is no longer doing most of its business with "Mormons, who stockpile food as a principle of the faith." Now 90% of its sales are to non-member end-of-the-worlders.

"Um, here's your dehydrated bacon and a shrink-wrapped twenty-dollar bill. Would you like to know more?"