1.   But donations to the Democratic Party and pronouncements by the Federal Reserve chairman are not millennial events, capable of changing the world as we know it.

2.   In the United States, alternative spirituality gurus are advertising millennial events in a spring issue of New Age magazine.

3.   People are excited by millennial events as images of beginnings and endings.

4.   Televangelist Robert Schuller of Garden Grove, Calif., is preparing for a grand millennial event.