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Feb. 23, 1998




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SPECIAL REPORT
 Let's Talk!
    COVER IMAGE: Let's Talk
    TABLE: Cool Applications That Listen to What You Say
    TABLE: Talking Points
    GRAPHIC: How to Recognize Speech? Or How to Wreck a Nice Beach...
    Five Trailblazers of Speech
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Talking Your Way through the Web
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: It Works in the Lab, but What About in the Market?
    For the Disabled, a Necessity
    Microsoft: Beyond Talking Barney
    Babel Moves to Belgium (int'l edition)
    Kissing Kanji Goodbye? (int'l edition)
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A with MIT's Victor Zue
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A with Kurzweil's Ray Kurzweil
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A with Editor William Meisel
    ONLINE ORIGINAL TABLE: Voice Technology Web Sites
 
UP FRONT
 Talk Show
 The War of the Wendts, Continued
 Have Patent, Will Sue Microsoft
 Did Griffin Stack the Deck?
 TABLE: Name One for the Gipper
 Look, Ma, No Keystrokes
    PHOTO: CrossPad Personal Digital Notepad
 Women Who Have It All--Except Golf
 Hey, Nose-Pulling Still Pays
 CHART: Now for the Bad News
 Footnotes
 
READERS REPORT
 Melvyn Weiss for the Plaintiffs
 A Minimum Wage Gives Families Minimal Help
 Building Self-Esteem Is a Teachable Skill
 How America Can Compete with a Revitalized Asia
 Don't Paint So Many Clouds over Sun
 Two Views of the Millennium Bug
 Quotas Are the Wrong Tool for Fighting Discrimination
 Why Roman Catholics Shun Prenuptial Agreements
 Let's Hear It for Women Business Leaders
 
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
 ''Who Needs Color Lasers?'' (Technology & You, Feb. 9)
 ''Navistar: Gunning the Engines'' (The Corporation, Feb. 2)
 ''Are Tech Buyers Different?'' (Marketing, Jan. 26)
 
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
 Make the World Safe for 'Creative Destruction'
 
ECONOMIC TRENDS
 Is the Trade Gap a Ticking Bomb?
    CHART: As One Deficit Vanishes, the Other Hardly Budges
 U.S. Students Get a Bum Rap
 Small Biz Is Bouncing Along
    CHART: Small Business Feels Some Heat
 
BOOKS
 War and Peace on the Tobacco Front
    PHOTO: Cover, ''Cornered''
    PHOTO: Cover, ''The People vs. Tobacco''
 
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
 Why I'm Rooting for Microsoft
 A Modem That Travels Well
    PHOTO: Psion Dacom Gold Card Global 56k PC Card
 Giant Home-PC Screens
    PHOTO: TeleVideo's SVP300 19" Monitor
 Web Destinations
 Help Desk
 
LETTER FROM IRAN
 Behind the Scarves, Iran's Second Sex Seethes
    MAP: Iran
 
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
 U.S.: How Much Longer Will This Jobs Surge Be 'Cost-Free'?
    CHART: The Job Machine Picks Up Speed
    CHART: Who Is Still Looking for Work
    CHART: Productivity Growth Bounces Back
 Europe: The First Signs of an Employment Rebound
    CHART: Has European Joblessness Peaked?
 
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
 AOL: The Right Kind of Busy Signals
    TABLE: A New Era at AOL
    CHART: Up, Up, and Away
 Ready to Drop the Big One on Bill Gates?
 No, Netscape Isn't Throwing in the Towel
 Computer Associates Hits the Download Button for $9 Billion
    TABLE: Combining Forces
 Commentary: Dow Jones: Bright Lights, Big Mistake
    CHART: The Dow Jones Lagging Average
 Airlines Raise Their Class Consciousness
    TABLE: Making the Plush Seats Even Plusher
 Commentary: The Workplace Cops Could Use Some Backup
    TABLE: More Money for the Regulators
 The Scramble to Keep Commonwealth Edison Aglow
    TABLE: High-Voltage Problems
 Prescriptions: Partly Filled, Fully Billed
 CVS: Drugstore Cowboy
 
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
 John Frazee: A Real Page-Turner
 Getting Aggressive with Union Pacific
 Will Helms Hamstring the IMF?
 From Ticketmaster to Telemarketer
 The Limited Aims to Lighten Up
 Like Tacos for Quarter-Pounders
 Et Cetera...
 GM's Repo
    CHART: General Motors Corp. Stock Price
 
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
 All That Gore-Bashing May Not Leave Much of a Dent
 Senator Clinton?
 Newt's New Nemesis
 Impeachment Intrigue
 
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
 Astra: It's Not over Yet
    TABLE: The Heat on Mogren
 Commentary: Mexico: Why AT&T and MCI Are Up in Arms
 The Shareholder Revolt Comes to Korea
    CHART: The Runup in SK Telecom
 Will Indian Silver Tarnish Buffett's Plans?
 
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
 The Euro Isn't out of the Woods
 Mexico Eyes Asian Imports
 U.S. Rewards Market Reforms
 
MARKETING
 GM Brings Its Dealers Up to Speed
    TABLE: The Makeover Plan
 
SOCIAL ISSUES
 Can Ernst & Young Retain Women by Rethinking Work?
    TABLE: Blocking the Exits
 
THE CORPORATION
 Pulp Fiction at Kimberly-Clark
    CHART: Absorbing Scott Gives Kimberly Bumpy Earnings...And a Lagging Stock
 Hilton: Sleeping with the Enemy?
    CHART: Hilton's Stock: In Need of a Deal
    The Honeymoon Is Over in Vegas and Atlantic City
 
PEOPLE
 Al Checchi Is Singing: California, Here I Come
    TABLE: Resume: Alfred A. Checchi
 
FINANCE
 Share Buybacks That Pay Back in Spades
    TABLE: A Primer on Buyback Puts
 Just over the Horizon: North American Banks
    TABLE: Matchmaker, Matchmaker...
 What's on GE's Mind?
 Commentary: Indonesia: A Currency Board Is No Magic Bullet
 
INSIDE WALL STREET
 Pick Up This Call. Hang Up That One
 Myers: Stolid Maybe--but Solid
    CHART: Several Rivals May Be Looking
 Renex Was Born to Be Bought Out
    CHART: A Big Drop Since the IPO
 
SPORTS BUSINESS
 Tom Clancy's Gridiron Dreams
 
BITS & BYTES
 Pampering a Dino in Your PC
 Will Shoppers Take to Cyber Groceries?
 A Net School for Olympics Couch Potatoes
 Software That Thinks Like You Do
 Bits & Bytes Contacts
 
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
 SRI and Sarnoff: Research Labs Reborn As Spin-Off Machines
    TABLE: Science Stalks Profits
    The Legacy of an Eternal Optimist
 
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
 The Breath of Life--Thanks to a Chip
    PHOTO: Aradigm SmartMist
 A Worm for All Seasons
 Counting the Troops in the HIV Fight
 Can a Little Lichen Predict the Big One?
 Developments to Watch Contacts
 
GOVERNMENT
 Hey, I Owe 99 Years in Back Taxes!
    TABLE: Now That's What You Call a Big Job
 
MEDIA
 Would You Pay to Read Slate?
    TABLE: The Stats on Slate
 
LEGAL AFFAIRS
 Are Corporate Predators on the Loose?
    TABLE: Aggressive to a Fault?
    TABLE: It's Not Just Bill Gates
 
PERSONAL BUSINESS
 Beware, These Bonds Can Fail You
    TABLE: Bond Traps
 Mergers May Juice Up Energy
    TABLE: Oil Explorers' Prey
 A New Gold Medalist in Fund Software
    TABLE: Weighing the Fund Analyzers
 Caribou Steaks with the Crees
    PHOTO: Cree Guide Anna Bosum Making Snowshoes
 
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
 More Evidence of a New Economy
 Stamping Out Soft Money
 
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON AUSTRALIA
 Victoria Gives Its Rival a Run...But Not without a Backlash at Home (int'l edition)
    MAP: Australia
 
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
 A Good Legal System Is Key to Kazakhstan's Success (int'l edition)
 Maybe Mahathir Wasn't So Far Off Course After All (int'l edition)
 Indonesians' Patience Should See Them through the Crisis (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
 ''Powerful Medicine'' (European Business, Feb. 16) (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
 Bill Gates Is a Target in Europe, Too (int'l edition)
    TABLE: Prowling the Continent
 Club Med Looks for a Break in the Clouds (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
 The Asian Swat Team from Washington (int'l edition)
    TABLE: Economic Troubleshooters
 Wharf Is Searching for a Port in Hong Kong's Storm (int'l edition)
    CHART: Wharf's Slide
 A Roaring Spy Business in Taiwan (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
 A Magic Bullet for Indonesia? (int'l edition)
    TABLE: How a Currency Board Works...And Why Indonesia May Not Be Ready
 In Russia, a Rising Chorus: Enough Is Enough (int'l edition)
    CHART: Moscow's Market Plunges
    Boris Nemtsov: The Voice of 'People's Capitalism' (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
 A Euro Divided Cannot Stand (int'l edition)
 Standing Up to the Chaebol (int'l edition)



 
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