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Feb. 16, 1998




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COVER STORY
 The Entertainment Glut
    COVER IMAGE: The Entertainment Glut
    TABLE: Watch Me!
    TABLE: In Their Words
    CHART: Industry Revenues Are Up...But Profitability Isn't...
    CHART: ...Especially among the Giants
    CHART: People Don't Watch TV Networks Like They Used To...
    CHART: ...Or Go to the Movies...
    On the Digital Frontier: A Shoot-Out with No Winners
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY
 Rich Kids (int'l edition)
    EUROPEAN COVER IMAGE: Rich Kids
    CHART: Germans Are Living Longer...Leaving More to Their Heirs...
    CHART: Where the Windfalls Are
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY
 Hong Kong (int'l edition)
    ASIAN COVER IMAGE: Hong Kong
    TABLE: Hong Kong Is Less Competitive in Salaries...Real Estate...And Port Services
    CHART: Hong Kong's Squeeze
 
UP FRONT
 Talk Show
 If Your Privacy's Invaded...Tough Luck
 Tasty Match for Tasteless Tab
 What's in a Name? How About $10 Million
 Big Cheeses, Talking Turkey
 'Let's See--Dweezil? No, That's Taken'
 A Melee over European Soccer
 Good Works--and Great Profits
    TABLE: Total Return
 CHART: Bankruptcy Ebb Tide
 Footnotes
 
READERS REPORT
 Navistar Fires Back
 Let Asian Banks Topple--into the Hands of the State
 Money Spent Is Money Invested
 Having a Social Conscience and Earning Fat Profits, Too
 New Measuring Sticks Bring New Problems to Light
 Let's Stop Appointing Federal Judges for Life
 Selling a Company Often Means Keeping Secrets
 In Some Spheres, Costs Are Still Climbing
 How to Leapfrog Microsoft
 Bribery or No Bribery, Osicom Wasn't Involved
 
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
 ''IRAs: The pros and cons of converting'' (Personal Business, Feb. 2)
 ''Our Child-Care Plan Is Better. Is Not! Is Too!'' (News: Analysis & Commentary, Feb. 9)
 
LETTER FROM VERSAILLES
 A Capitalist Uprising at Versailles
    MAP: France
 
BOOKS
 Power Struggle in the Playpen
    PHOTO: Cover, ''Toy Wars''
 Touchy-Feebly
    PHOTO: Cover, ''Hungry Spirit''
 Bank Caper
    PHOTO: Cover, ''Numbered Account''
 
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
 A Wireless World: Not Yet
    TABLE: Promising, But...
 
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
 Don't Thank the Free Market for Eco-Friendly Cars
 
ECONOMIC TRENDS
 Will Downsizing Ever Let Up?
    CHART: Layoffs Are Picking Up Steam Again
 Still Plenty of Shopping to Do
 Tight Squeeze at the Office
    CHART: Downtown Space Gets Tighter
 
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
 U.S.: The Trade Picture Is Fuzzier Than It Looks
    CHART: A Wider Trade Gap: Asia or Data Quirk?
    CHART: January Export Orders Fell. The Total Rose
    CHART: Strong Income Support for Consumers
 Japan: Not Much Help--or Hope--for Consumers
    CHART: Japan's Job Markets Have Weakened Again
 
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
 Sex on the Job
    TABLE: The Score
    Zippergate: What Executives Are Saying
 Bigwigs, Big Ideas, Hot Debate, Hillary, and Swell Caviar
 Now, Big Tobacco Is Eager to Please
    Smoke-Filled Lobbyists Were Here
 Commentary: Break the Tax-Break Habit
    CHART: The Back Door
 Glaxo-Smithkline: Birth of a Champion--or a Bureaucratic Blob?
    TABLE: What the Two Giants Would Bring to a Marriage
 Strike Up the Broadband
 Commentary: Losing the Trail of the HIV Epidemic
 Labor and the GOP: A Shoot-Out in California
 The Hip New Drink: Milk
 
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
 Warren Buffett: The Sage Bets on Silver
 Good Things for a Japanese Insurer?
 Healing Oxford's Wounds
 Chalk Up One for Microsoft
 Clouds Still Hang over Tokyo
 Those Come-Ons May Go Too Far
 Et Cetera...
 AOL Scores 100
    CHART: America Online's Stock Price
 
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
 Holding Help for Africa Hostage to Fast Track
 Buffett's New Cause
 Politics of Porn
 The Colorado Ronnies?
 
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
 Hong Kong: In the Eye of a Hurricane
    TABLE: Hong Kong Is Less Competitive in Salaries...Real Estate...And Port Services
    CHART: Hong Kong's Squeeze
 It's Not Just the Chaebol That Are Squeezed
    CHART: The Jump in Bankruptcies
 
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
 Bombs Can't Make Up for a Bankrupt Mideast Policy
 Toyota Sports the Green
 France Closes Nuclear Plant
 
SPORTS BUSINESS
 Commentary: Pele vs. Nike: Guess Who Won't Score
 
PEOPLE
 Amway II: The Kids Take Over
    CHART: Amway's March around the Globe
    CHART: The Amway Machine
 
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
 A Revolution in Pain Relief?
    TABLE: Here Come the New Painkillers
 
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
 The Shape of Tidal Waves to Come
 Using Poison from Snakes to Stymie Cancer
 New Robots to Slice and Suture
 With These Gizmos, Your Cell Phone Can Run on Vodka
 Developments to Watch Contacts
 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
 Warp Speed Ahead on the Net
    GRAPHIC: A Real Superhighway
    What Could Whip the World Wide Wait
       TABLE: How the Systems Stack Up Today
 
MARKETING
 The Goosebumps' Deal Goes Bump in the Night
    TABLE: The Goosebumps Players
 
FINANCE
 Ron Perelman, Vernon Jordan, and Zippergate
 Ready for Dow 9000?
 High-Risk Lenders Land with a Thud
    CHART: Big Slide
 
INSIDE WALL STREET
 The Banks She's Putting Money On
 A Special Lilt at Brite Voice
    CHART: Not Much to Talk About Lately
 The Tech Stocks He's Switching To
 
MUTUAL FUND SCOREBOARD
 The Weird World of Closed-End Funds
    TABLE: The Best of the Bunch
    Scoreboard: The Best Closed-End Funds (.pdf)
 
THE CORPORATION
 Can Pixar Keep Up the Magic?
    CHART: Pixar by the Numbers
    PHOTO: Still from Pixar's A Bug's Life
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Toy Story II's Touch-And-Go Trip to the Theater
 
PERSONAL BUSINESS
 Video: Eye-Popping TV--but It'll Cost You
    TABLE: On the Digital Horizon
 New Screens: The Skinny on Thin TVs
 Investing: Turning Gizmos into Gold
    TABLE: Consumer Electronics Values
 Video Phones: They're Fun, but Still Fuzzy
    TABLE: Making Video Calls
 The Web: Cable Modems Really Rock
    TABLE: Are They for You?
 Audio: Sweet Sounds on the Web
    TABLE: Where To Listen
 Gadgets: Pumping Up Your Old PC
    TABLE: How To Rejuvenate a Desktop
 
BUSINESS WEEK INDEX
 Business Week Index
    CHART: Production Index
    HISTORICAL DATA: BW Index Back to 1992
 The Week Ahead
 
INVESTMENT FIGURES OF THE WEEK
 Investment Figures of the Week
    CHART: Mutual Fund Returns
    CHART: Stocks and Bonds
 
EDITORIALS
 Stay Prudent on the Budget
 Hong Kong's Woes Aren't Over Yet
 Airlines Should Reform Themselves
 
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON ZIMBABWE
 A Move to Grab White-Owned Land...May Land Mugabe in Deep Trouble (int'l edition)
    MAP: Zimbabwe
 
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
 The Right Remedy for What Ails Asia (int'l edition)
 How a Brazilian David Smote a Canadian Goliath (int'l edition)
 New Zealand Already Relies on a Hefty Sales Tax (int'l edition)
 Many Lessons from Asia Don't Apply in Russia (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
 Glaxo-Smithkline: Powerful Medicine (int'l edition)
    TABLE: What the Two Giants Would Bring to a Marriage
 Ericsson's Big Leap (int'l edition)
    TABLE: Evolution at Ericsson
    CHART: Ericsson Is on a Roll
    PHOTO: Ericsson Mobile Telephone
 Commentary: VW, Your Road Warrior Days Are Numbered (int'l edition)
 An Iron Curtain for a Metals Company? (int'l edition)
 Is It Harassment, or 'Le Flirt'? (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
 Does This Party Really Want to Turn Back India's Clock? (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
 Can Deutsche Measure Up? (int'l edition)
    TABLE: A Giant under Pressure
    'Our Strategic Priority Is Europe' (int'l edition)
 Commentary: Japan: The MOF Won't Loosen Its Stranglehold (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
 Time to Open Up Online Shopping (int'l edition)



 
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