Your participation in, and support of, these activities is important because you play such a crucial role in helping communities respond to the evolving financial, educational, and technological demands of this new century. As I indicated in my opening remarks, future historians are likely to conclude that the past five years have been a pivotal period in American economic history.
I trust they will also conclude that it was a period that set in place policies to foster the eventual emergence of full participation of that segment of the workforce that has not fully shared in our economic progress. BIS Review 26/2000  4