If you don’t know what the headline means, you already are in trouble. But it’s not too late to prepare for the Year 2000. The first thing you should do is go out immediately and buy a bottle of champagne (or sparkling non-alcoholic grape juice) for your New Year’s Eve party. Reports are that this will be a dear commodity as the new millennium approaches. Having gotten the celebration thing out of the way, now it’s time to get down to business.

You can spend hours on the World Wide Web researching the possible problems associated with turning our calendars from the 1900s to 2000. Business magazines devote articles to it every month. Newspapers already are running as many potential Y2K horror stories as they are covering events that actually are happening in the world.

Widespread power outages lasting from a couple of days to a couple of weeks because power companies can’t replace all the computer microchips in every machine connected to their systems are the main worry. And that worry stems from the companies themselves