Banks guard Y2K readiness and customer caution
Iowa banks report heavy investment to fix two digit year date systems and test readiness for 2000. Banks urge customers to keep records, back up data, avoid cash hoarding, and beware fraud schemes like pigeon drops during the millennium change.
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Iowa
Gazette
Mercantile Bank
Russ Goldhammer
Iowa Bankers Association
U.S. General Accounting Office
Cap Gemini
Gartner Group
An Unsettling Moment at Iowa Basketball Game
Fans laughed as referee Sam Lickliter collided with a falling player and crashed to the floor. He suffered a head injury and was taken to a hospital, then released. The scene prompted embarrassment rather than humor and raised questions about spectators’ reactions on TV.
Why there are no more leaders
A Wall Street Journal critique argues that polls drive modern leadership and impeaches Clinton allies for backing him amid rising poll influence. It states polling costs shape decisions, with leaders following numbers as a substitute for independent thinking and news coverage becoming poll driven.
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York
Wall Street Journal
Dudgeon
Clinton
the Journal
Albert Einstein
Einstein
George Gallup
National Security
Sandy Berger
Congress
America
House of Representatives
Newt Gingrich
Elvis
CBS
Dan Rather
Time Magazine
Cable News
O.J
Monica
Hoffa Name Signals Change for Teamsters Leader
Editorial views James P. Hoffa’s election as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters as powered by the Hoffa legacy. The piece notes the union’s decline to 1.4 million members, past corruption, and calls for pragmatic reform while wary of reviving past mob associations.
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Chicago Tribune
James P. Hoffa
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Jimmy Hoffa
Hoffa
America
Teamsters
Knight Ridder
Tribun
Sevier
Campaign finance reform urged to curb corporate money
Ed Fallon argues in a Gazette letter that money controls politics through corporate funding, with ads and tax breaks shaping elections. He urges citizens to demand reform from candidates to prevent worsening influence in future campaigns.
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Gazette
Ed Fallon
Des Moines
Gazette invites reader letters for publication
The Gazette requests letters up to 300 words and requires the writer’s name street address and daytime phone number. Only the name and hometown will be published, with Cedar Rapids Gazette Box 511 Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406 as the mailing address and options to FAX or email provided.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Gazette
Humane deer control debated after fatal crash injuries
A Sac and Fox Trail hiker finds a deer hit by a car and later shot by a police officer. The piece notes rising deer-vehicle collisions and argues for hunter culling over bumper actions to reduce harm to deer and risk to people. Rich Patterson, Cedar Rapids.
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Sac and Fox Trail
Rich Patterson
Cedar Rapids
Reader complains Iowa coach coverage in Gazette
A Cedar Rapids reader denounces The Gazette for overemphasizing the Iowa coach with two front page and sports section stories. The letter demands unbiased community news reporting and criticizes perceived year-round coverage bias.
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Iowa
The
Gazette
Ray Wittemeyer
Cedar Rapids
St James Park Name Possession Rule Confusion
A reader from Madison notes London Underground signs changing from St James Park to St James s Park. The writer cites rules for singular nouns ending in s and offers options apostrophe only or apostrophe plus s. The piece discusses pronunciation avoiding triple or quadruple s sounds and mentions the author as the granddaughter of the writer.
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Leslie Dutcher
Madison. Wis
England
London Underground
St. James’ Park
St. James's Park
St. James’s Park
New Yorker
Leslie
Charles
Moses
Xerxes
Sinai
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United Parcel Service
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