I've been delighted by the sense of corporate responsibility that I've seen. This partnership is about how you make government work better and cost less and is at the heart of reinventing government.

It is important to stress, however, that the Y2K problem is not a technical issue alone. World publics must be adequately informed not only about the scale and importance of the problem, but also about its nature so that the inevitable disruptions that will occur sometime, somewhere, in the first days of the year 2000 do not trigger worldwide trepidation, or even panic.