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COVER STORY
• McDonald's
•     COVER IMAGE: McDonald's
•     TABLE: Where's the Sizzle?
•     CHART: A Massive Expansion...But Slipping Share...And Less Profitability
•     TABLE: Flops
•     They Don't Bite the Hand That Feeds Them
•        TABLE: A Close-Knit Group
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: America's Best Burger? Not McDonald's

INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY
• Britain's Millionaire Dons (int'l edition)
•     EUROPEAN COVER IMAGE: Millionaire Dons
•     TABLE: How Profs Are Creating Companies--and Wealth

INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY
• Asia's Car Trouble (int'l edition)
•     ASIAN COVER IMAGE: Car Trouble
•     CHART: The Slump in Car Sales
•     The Big Crunch (int'l edition)
•        TABLE: Thailand's Car Crisis
•     Proton Is Steering into Rockier Terrain (int'l edition)
•        CHART: Proton's Stock Tumble

UP FRONT
• Talk Show
• A Protectionist Changes His Stripes
• Smithkline: Older, Wiser--and Poorer
• Computer Sciences: Not Yet Cleared for Takeover
• A Nation of Happy Faces
•     CHART: Has the Economy Improved, Worsened, Stayed the Same?
• This Time, the Empire May Strike Out
• Packing Heat--and a Big Wheel, Too
• I Hope the Parking Meters Take Visa
• CHART: Seed Money Is Sprouting
• Footnotes

READERS REPORT
• One Amway Doubter--and One True Believer
• Praise for the Dow Jones/NBC Deal
• Brazil's Busy Schedule Isn't Nike's Doing
• Qwest: One Analyst Doesn't Spoil a Good Year
• A Citizens' Revolt against a Smoking Ban
• Why Government Gridlock Is a Good Thing

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
• ''Mr. House finds his fixer-upper'' (People, Feb. 2)
• ''Warp speed ahead'' (Information Technology, Feb. 16)

BOOKS
• A Faustian Bargain on Wall Street
•     PHOTO: Cover, ''Riding the Bull''

TECHNOLOGY & YOU
• Is Everybody on the Same Page?
• A Faster Mac
• Look Ma, No Hands

ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
• If There Were No IMF, They'd Have to Invent One

ECONOMIC TRENDS
• What Put a Dent in the Deficit
•     CHART: A Larger Tax Bite out of Income
• The Perils of Staying Single
•     CHART: Get Married, Live Longer
• U.S. Workers Get Smarter

LETTER FROM CANADA
• Free Quebec? Not If You Ask the Cree
•     MAP: Quebec

BUSINESS OUTLOOK
• U.S.: If Growth Becomes Subdued, So Will the Fed
•     GRAPHIC: A Fed's-Eye View of the Economy
•     CHART: Consumer Spirits Are Soaring
•     GRAPHIC: So This Is Where All the Money Goes
• Brazil: The Storm before the Calm
•     CHART: Output Plummeted at the End of Last Year

NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
• Two Reasons Not to Tinker
•     The Promise of Productivity
•        CHART: With Labor Costs Rising...And Prices Falling...Companies Push for Greater Productivity
•     This Trade Deficit Could Help
•        CHART: The Trade Deficit May Be Growing Again...But So Is the Economy
• Wireless Goes Haywire at Motorola
•     TABLE: Untangling the Wireless Mess
•     CHART: Motorola Is Nearing Its One-Year Low
• TCI and AT&T May Connect, but Can They Work?
•     TABLE: AT&T's Courtship of Cable
• The Great Encryption Debate
•     TABLE: The Encryption Wars
• Why Texas Pacific Sees Promise in Oxford
• Commentary: Not Everything Oxford Did Needs Repair
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: A Talk with Oxford's New Boss
• Those New Brews Have the Blues
•     CHART: Microbrewery Stocks Have Gone Flat
• In Reverse at Nissan
•     PHOTO: Nissan TV Ad
• Merck Holds Its Breath
•     PHOTO: Merck's Singulair

IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
• Jan Leschly: This One Didn't Clear the Net
• Messy Accounts at Waste Management
• Curtains for New Century
• Drug Deals the FTC May Not Swallow
• Credit Unions Get Their Wings Clipped
• Ben & Jerry's Ices a Dreyer's Offer
• Et Cetera...
• Nike: Just Not Doing It
•     CHART: Nike Class B Share Price

WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
• Patient's Bill of Rights: Business Gets Out the Scalpel
• The Paxon Shocker

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
• Asia's Car Trouble
•     CHART: The Slump in Car Sales
•     The Big Crunch in Thailand
•        TABLE: Thailand's Car Crisis
•     A Wrong Turn in Malaysia
• Go West, Young Frenchman

INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
• What a Deal with Iraq Won't Fix: The Weapons Buildup in Iran
• More Spending in Canada
• German Corporate Flight?

THE CORPORATION
• A New Cat on the Hot Seat
•     CHART: Cat in the 1990s: Fast Growth Has the Stock Climbing

GOVERNMENT
• Commentary: Your Taxes May Be Higher Than You Think
•     TABLE: Stealth Tax Rates

LEGAL AFFAIRS
• Bank of America's Back Is against the Wall
•     TABLE: How Badly Did BofA Blunder?

PEOPLE
• Emergency Surgery for Medpartners
•     TABLE: Resume: Richard M. Scrushy

FINANCE
• Never Cross a Bond Dealer
•     TABLE: The Intervest Saga
•     TABLE: The Bond Biz
• Heat from the Boiler Room
•     TABLE: Who's Who in the Baron Trial
• How Many Bankers Can You Squeeze into Sao Paulo?
•     TABLE: The Survivors

INSIDE WALL STREET
• Claire's Could Sparkle Again
•     CHART: Looking Like a ''Junk Jeweler''
• Bank Plus Looks Ripe for a Raid
•     CHART: Rumors May Be Upping the Price
• An Intelligent Electronics Buy?
•     CHART: The Light Has Blinked On

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
• Downloading Their Dream Cars
•     TABLE: Everything Except a Way to Kick the Tires

BITS & BYTES
• Calling All 21st Century Adventurers
• A Sound Chip That's Getting a Lot of Buzz
• Who Says the Young Have More Cyber Fun?
• Big Blue's Gold in Nagano
• Bits & Bytes Contacts

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
• Britain's Millionaire Dons
•     TABLE: How Profs Are Creating Companies--and Wealth

DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
• A Galaxy Says: 'Hell, No, I Won't Go'
• Maybe Dog Tags Will Keep Chips from Straying
• Soon, You Too Can Exterminate Phone Bugs
• Here, Kitty: Have a Contraceptive
• Developments to Watch Contacts

PERSONAL BUSINESS
• Market Timing: A Perilous Ploy
•     TABLE: Few Medals for Market-Timers
• How to Play the Video-Game Makers
•     TABLE: Portfolio Winners?
• Can You Believe in These Conversions?
•     TABLE: Insurers that Converted to Stock
• Steering Your Car Insurer to a Fair Deal
• New Face

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
• Japan Needs to Face the Music--Now
• The Euro Makes Trade a New Game

INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON ALBANIA
• A Hot Traffic in Warm Bodies...Is Kept Well Oiled by Corruption (int'l edition)
•     MAP: Albania

INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
• Britain Is for Book Lovers (int'l edition)
• The Crazy Math of Life in Hong Kong (int'l edition)
• Let's Hear about Europeans Who Made It from Scratch (int'l edition)
• What's Really Revving Up Green Cars (int'l edition)
• Mideast Support: Not All Excuses Are Equal (int'l edition)
• Working toward Biotech Drugs You Can Swallow (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
• ''It's Not Just the Chaebol That Are Squeezed'' (Asian Business, Feb. 16) (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
• Go West, Young Frenchman (int'l edition)
•     TABLE: Why France Comes Up Short
• This Russian Banking Star May Be Fading (int'l edition)
•     TABLE: Resume: Peter Derby
• Commentary: Europe's Film Industry Could Use a Dose of Realism (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
• Can Indonesia's Salim Get out of This Corner? (int'l edition)
•     ONLINE ORIGINAL: A Talk with Anthony Salim
• Thailand's Deputy Premier: 'We Have Turned the Corner' (int'l edition)
• Commentary: Are Japan's Prosecutors on a Secret Mission? (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L BUSINESS
• Commentary: This Is No Time for Menem to Be Pandering to Unions (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
• Marriage? Commerzbank Just Isn't Ready (int'l edition)
•     CHART: Will Commerzbank Beat the Market?

INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
• When Will France Give Up Karl Marx? (int'l edition)





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