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Mar. 16, 1998




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COVER STORY
 Can China Avert Crisis?
    COVER IMAGE: Can China Avert Crisis?
    GRAPHIC: China's Financial System
    TABLE: China: The Problems
 
UP FRONT
 Talk Show
 That Fine Print Can Burn You
 A Web Site for Sore Eyes
 For the Driver Who Has Everything
    PHOTO: The Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph
 Lights! Camera! Death Sticks!
 Procter & Gamble's Chip Upgrade
 The Filmmaker Is a Theater Critic
 Look Out--Big Bertha Is Mad
    PHOTO: Top Flite/Club System C Golf Balls
 CHART: Doing the Splits
 Footnotes
 
EDITOR'S MEMO
 Expanding Our Viewpoints
 
READERS REPORT
 Computers That Can Listen and Understand
 Most Workers Want a Say in Unions' Political Giving
 Cramping Coach Passengers to Coddle First Class
 Com Ed Looks on the Bright Side
 
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
 ''Is this the end of the glory days?'' (Corporate Scoreboard, Mar. 2)
 ''Emergency surgery for MedPartners'' (People, Mar. 9)
 
BOOKS
 When the Cure May Make You Sicker
    PHOTO: Cover, ''Prescription for Disaster''
 
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
 From Akia: Desktop Power, Laptop Size
    TABLE: A Mighty Small Package
    PHOTO: Akia's Fusion OneBox Computer
 Year 2000: Who's Ready?
 
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
 So You Want to Hire the Beautiful. Well, Why Not?
 
ECONOMIC TRENDS
 Message in the Money Supply
    CHART: Monetary Growth: Up, Up, and Away
 A Good Time to Be a Big Wheel
    CHART: A Tight Market for Top Execs
 Are Profits Lifting Wages?
 
LETTER FROM PARIS
 Cooking Up a New Life
    MAP: France
 
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
 U.S.: So Far, the Asian Crisis Is More Boon Than Bane
    CHART: The Rising Trend in New-Home Sales
    CHART: Why Consumer Spending Remains So Strong
    CHART: Orders: Still Strong amid Weaker Exports
 Italy: It's Not Just the Deficit That Needs Taming
    CHART: Italy: Well on the Rebound Road
 
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
 Scott and Bill Went Up the Hill
    Hatch 2, Gates 1
    Gore: High on High Tech (Extended)
    Doerr: The 'New Economy' and Its Biggest Fan (Extended)
 Commentary: High-Tech Talent: Don't Bolt the Golden Door
 Can GM Make a U-Turn in Europe?
    CHART: Downhill Slide
    PHOTO: 1998 Opel Astra
 Governance Doc, Heal Thyself
    TABLE: Examining CalPERS' Board of Directors
 Commentary: How Northwest Gives Competition a Bad Name
 Chainsaw Al Goes to Camp Coleman
    CHART: Coleman: Dimming Lights
 Commentary: Murdoch: Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish in Asia
 
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
 Marc Andreessen: Nervous and Shaky at Netscape?
 UPS: We Also Cyber-Deliver
 WorldCom Gets Snagged on the Net
 ADP Gives Trees a Break
 The Money Store's New Moneybags
 Texas Instruments Discards Acer
 Et Cetera...
 Compaq: PC Overload
    CHART: Compaq Stock Price
 
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
 Cornered Credit Unions Come Out Fighting
 Less Crowded Field?
 GOP: Glad Glenn's Going
 Net Funding Brawl
 
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
 Commentary: 'I'm Shocked! There Are People Working in Here!'
 
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
 Old-Style Politics Could Sink the New Korea
 German Pay Talks Get Tense
 A Malaysian Bank Bailout?
 
THE CORPORATION
 Why Avon Called a 'Nonwoman'
    CHART: Avon at a Glance
    CHART: Avon: A Woman's Place
 Commentary: Why Didn't GM Do More for Saturn?
    CHART: A Slipping Saturn
 
LEGAL AFFAIRS
 Forced into Arbitration? Not Any More
    TABLE: The Assault on Binding Arbitration
 
SPORTS BUSINESS
 Is Kobe Bryant the NBA Air Apparent?
    TABLE: A Season To Forget?
 
SOCIAL ISSUES
 Locked Out of the Hospital
    TABLE: The Quiet Hospital Giants
    PHOTO: ICU Needleless IV System
    PHOTO: The Bio-Plexus Blood Collection Device
 
GOVERNMENT
 The Heat under Peter Knight
    TABLE: The Portals Affair Keeps Unfolding
 
FINANCE
 What the Heck Is Going on at Reuters?
    TABLE: What They're Saying
 Insignia: The Making of a Superlandlord
    TABLE: The Dealmaker
 Beware the Trades of March
    CHART: Trouble Ahead?
 Commentary: Not All Real Estate Trusts Are to Be Trusted
 
INSIDE WALL STREET
 Microbrews--without the Froth
    TABLE: Brookhaven's Choices
 This Railroad Is Set to Couple Up
    CHART: Heading North at Full Speed
 Putting Rentrak on Fast-Forward
    CHART: More Outlets Ahead
 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
 A Little Net Privacy, Please
    CHART: Wanted on the Web: Regulation
    Heading Off E-Voyeurs at the Pass
    BW/HARRIS POLL: Online Insecurity (Extended)
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: What the Poll Numbers Add Up To
 Palmy Days for 3Com?
    TABLE: 3Com Brings the Net into Your Living Room
    PHOTO: 3Com's Palm III
 
BITS & BYTES
 Tying a Virtual String Around Your Finger
 Another Microsoft Power Play?
 Prefab Materials to Build E-Commerce Sites
 A Detour Around Net Traffic Jams
 Bits & Bytes Contacts
 
MARKETING
 Dunkin' Donuts Is on a Coffee Rush
    TABLE: A Recipe for Change
 
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
 No Shortage of Moxie at Nymox
 
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
 Antigravity: A Brief Mystery of Time
 Fast, Cheap, and Cutting-Edge
 Take Two Taxol and Call Me in the Morning
 Quality Claims Its Own Bull Market
    TABLE: Baldrige Winners Pay Off
 Developments to Watch Contacts
 
PERSONAL BUSINESS
 Tapping High Tech's Latest Takeoff
    TABLE: Where the Buys Are
 Hammering Out a Housing Play
    TABLE: Values among Mortgage Lenders
 Ready for That Job on the Street?
    CHART: Boom Time for Brokers
 Ahem: Be Kind to Your Voice
    TABLE: For Healthy Pipes
 Keeping Up-To-Date
 
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
 Privacy: The Key to the New Economy
 Techies Are Shaking Up Politics. Good
 
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON GUATEMALA
 Beating Swords into Plowshares...With Deft Help from a Rebel Priest (int'l edition)
    MAP: Guatemala
 
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
 Computers Can Already Understand Chinese (int'l edition)
 Taiwan Is No More Lax Than Its Neighbors (int'l edition)
 Foreigners Still Snag the Good Jobs (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
 ''Asia: Age of the Deal'' (Cover Story, Asian Edition, Mar. 2) (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
 The Wrong Rx for Roche? (int'l edition)
    TABLE: Humer's Challenges
 Jurgen Dormann: Hoechst Is Back on Track (Extended) (int'l edition)
 The 'Queen of Gas' Aims to Reign in Ukraine (int'l edition)
    TABLE: Resume: Yulia Timoshenko
 Commentary: Mr. Schroder, You're No Tony Blair (int'l edition)
 Portrait of a Family (int'l edition)
    Halina: A Pole Above All (int'l edition)
       TABLE: Resume: Halina Kania
    Grazyna: Caught in the Middle (int'l edition)
       TABLE: Resume: Grazyna Mazuchowska
    Patrycja: Rarin' to Go (int'l edition)
       TABLE: Resume: Patrycja Mazuchowska
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
 The Corporate Samurai Are Getting Less Loyal (int'l edition)
 How Long Can Bandai Keep Those Cute Little Pets Alive? (int'l edition)
    CHART: Bandai's Stock Drop
 
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L BUSINESS
 Can This Ultra-Rich Mexican Keep Charming the Working Class? (int'l edition)
    TABLE: Salinas Pliego's Empire
 
INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
 A Tremor in South Africa's Mines (int'l edition)
    CHART: As Gold Prices Plummet...Mining Jobs Decline
 Turning the Prophet's Words into Profits (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
 China's Growth Plan Makes Sense (int'l edition)
 Don't Choose Gridlock, Germany (int'l edition)



 
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