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Title: Nasdaq Composite Freezes As Cable Fails Summary: The Nasdaq composite index, symbol of the roaring ``new economy'' stocks, froze for about 2-1/2 hours on Friday on a technical glitch, leaving investors clueless about the direction and movement of the technology-saturated market.Source: Reuters Online Date: 02/18/2000 15:28
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-- Dee (T1Colt556@aol.com), February 18, 2000
Hmmm, so it took them 2 1/2 hours to plug the cable back in?
-- NO Polly (nopolly@hotmail.com), February 18, 2000.