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Article: Women Find Shopping for a Bathing Suit Almost as Stressful as Y2K, Survey Shows.
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- PR Newswire
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- May 25, 1999
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ROY, Utah, May 25 /PRNewswire/ -- It's scary, it's unpredictable and it's nearly upon us. It's an event that millions of women find almost as stressful as the Y2K computer glitch. It's bathing suit shopping.
Y2K ranks just ahead of buying a bathing suit in terms of the stress it causes women, according to a national survey conducted by Roper Starch for Iomega Corporation, maker of Zip(R) disks and drives for backing up computer information. Fifty percent of American women say the Y2K computer problem is very or somewhat stressful, while 45 percent say the same of buying a bathing suit.
Men see things differently. While 36 percent of men say Y2K is ...