Earlier this month, the World Herald "sanitized" a story about a glitch that occurred during a Y2K related computer system change over. This was purportedly because Y2K is a "coined abbreviation" etc. Apparently for the World Herald, use of "Y2K" in relation to events that really are not really related to Y2K is ok....

http://pe.omaha.com/Omaha/OWH/StoryViewer/1,3153,193870,00.html

-- Eyell Makedo (make_do@hotmail.com), July 30, 1999