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SPECIAL REPORT
• The Business Week 50
•     COVER IMAGE: The Business Week 50
•     TABLE: Total Return
•     TABLE: Sales
•     TABLE: Earnings Growth
•     TABLE: Earnings Decline
•     TABLE: Net Margin
•     TABLE: Return on Equity
•     CHART: Beating the Indexes
•     How We Picked the Cream of the Crop
•     The Nimble New Leaders of the Pack
•     Sifting for Clues
•        TABLE: Last Year's Experience...Suggests Some Stocks to Consider Now
•        ONLINE ORIGINAL: Time to Take a Chance on Applied Materials?
•     TABLE: BW's Performance Rankings of the S&P 500 (With Links to Extensive Data from S&P)
•     TABLE: BW's Performance Rankings of the S&P 500 (.pdf)
•     TABLE: BW's Industry Rankings of the S&P (.pdf)

UP FRONT
• Talk Show
• Hughes and Boeing Are Cozying Up
• CompUSA to PC World: Leave My Store, You Troublemaker
• Darla Moore: The Lady Is a B-School
• Spectrum on the Cheap
• A Starter Fund in a League of Its Own
• Give Money or This Chipmunk Dies
• Test Your Midas Quotient
• CHART: Winter Wanderlust
• Footnotes

EDITOR'S MEMO
• A Ranking That Really Clicks

READERS REPORT
• Does McDonald's Deserve a Break?
• Rejection for Investment Is a Learning Experience
• The GSA: No ''Improper Influence Exerted''
• Motorola Is a Digital Leader, Not a Laggard
• MCI: GTE Is No Small Player on the Net

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
• ''Governance Doc, Heal Thyself'' News: Analysis & Commentary, (Mar. 16 Issue)
• ''This time, the Empire may strike out'' Up Front, (Mar. 9 issue)

LETTER FROM SILICON VALLEY
• Where the 'Tube Guys' Hunt for Sweet Sound
•     MAP: San Francisco Bay Area

BOOKS
• How the Clintons Manage the Media
•     PHOTO: Cover, ''Spin Cycle''
• Anatomy of Hate
•     PHOTO: Cover, ''The Warrior's Honor''
• Perfect Pitch
•     PHOTO: Cover, ''The NPR Classical Music Companion''

TECHNOLOGY & YOU
• Why Microsoft Must Do Better

ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
• Currency Boards: A Bad Idea That Just Won't Go Away

ECONOMIC TRENDS
• How Low Can Oil Prices Go?
•     CHART: Oil Prices Take a Big Slide
• The Myth of Stock Volatility
• The Trade Gap Won't Be All Bad
•     CHART: Some U.S. Imports Spell Profits

BUSINESS OUTLOOK
• U.S.: Consumers' Shopping Carts Are Filling Fast
•     CHART: Housing Starts: Best Quarter in a Decade?
•     CHART: Falling Prices Boost Buying Power
•     CHART: Equipment Output Has Weakened
• Canada: A Brawny Economy Is Taming the Budget
•     CHART: Canada Heads toward Fiscal Balance

NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
• Living in a World of Cheap Oil
•     CHART: Oil Prices Are Falling...And Efficiency Gains Have Slowed
•     Commentary: Pollution: Technology Got Us into This...
• When Bosses Get Rich from Selling the Company
•     TABLE: The Sweet Hereafter
•     Stock Options: Lou Gerstner Takes a Cue from Silicon Valley
• Well, Mr. Jobs, What'll It Be?
•     CHART: Apple's Stock: Looking Healthy
• Commentary: NASDAQ-AMEX: Market of the Future? Not Likely
• Commentary: Why Congress Can't Afford to Shatter Glass-Steagall
•     TABLE: Shaking the Money Tree
• Commentary: Is Big Tobacco's Antismoking Push a Smokescreen?
• Battery Breakthrough
• Stirring Things Up at Quaker Oats
•     TABLE: Management on a Diet

IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
• Robert Johnson: A Big Bet on BET
• The Lockheed Deal May Come Undone
• Chase Wields a Big Ax
• Compromising on Internet Taxes
• Dow Jones Closes the Books on a Fiasco
• Stewart Hit with $4.9 Million Fine
• Et Cetera...
• Cellulars Ring
•     CHART: Index of Wireless Company Stocks

WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
• Can 'a Different Kind of Democrat' Retake the House?
•     TABLE: House of Representatives
• Reforming Securities Reform
• Dr. Newt Bests Doc Hillary
• Clinton's IMF Strategy

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
• Is VW Revving Too High?
•     TABLE: Piech's Dreams...And the Risks
•     How VW's Stepsisters Grew Up to Be Beautiful (int'l edition)
• Commentary: Guess What? Europe Could Use More Lawsuits
• Can Mahathir Go His Own Way?
•     CHART: Malaysia's Slowdown
• Burma's Suu Kyi: Take Your Investments Elsewhere, Please (Extended)
• Mexico Slips in an Oil Puddle
•     CHART: Cheap Oil Hurts the Bolsa

INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
• Why the Straits of Taiwan Are Looking Calmer
• Faint Praise for Jospin
• Power Grab in Slovakia?

ENVIRONMENT
• Only God and Toyota Can Make a Tree
•     TABLE: Why Toyota's Trees Are So Special

MARKETING
• Are Drug Ads a Cure-All?
•     CHART: Healthy Spending on Drug Ads

SPORTS BUSINESS
• Jerry Colangelo: The Man Who's Bringing Baseball to the Desert
•     RESUME: Jerry Colangelo

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
• Geocities: Mr. Bohnett's Cyberhood
•     CHART: Where Cybernauts Meet and Greet
•     Another Net IPO Frenzy--with a Difference
•        TABLE: The Sizzle Is Back
• How One Company Is Exterminating the Millennium Bug
•     TABLE: Countdown to the Year 2000
• Less Sound and Fury at the FCC
•     TABLE: Unsnarling the FCC's Problems

PEOPLE
• Joe Plumeri: The Apostle of Life Insurance
•     CHART: Primerica's Best Businesses: Life Insurance, Mutual Funds...
•     CHART: ...Consumer Loans, Property-Casualty, and Annuities
•     CHART: The Power of Profitable Thinking

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
• Chernobyl: If a Robot Can Make It Here...
•     TABLE: Where Humans Fear to Tread
•     GRAPHIC: Pioneer: Nuclear Warrior

DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
• Putting Brains in Plane Wings
• Shake, Shake, Shake Your Fruit Tree
•     PHOTO: BEI's Prototype Citrus Harvester
• In Surgery, a Little Dab'll Glue Ya
•     PHOTO: Lung Tissue Is Repaired with Light
• Do Not Be Alarmed--Unnecessarily
• Developments to Watch Contacts

FINANCE
• Aetna's Brave Old World
•     TABLE: Back to Basics
• At Allstate, a Tornado of a Turnaround
•     TABLE: After the Spin-off: So Far, So Good
• Washington Mutual: Bigfoot Heads South
•     CHART: Charging Ahead

INSIDE WALL STREET
• Icahn May Help Seagull Fly
• Bouygues Could Be a Gusher
•     CHART: Bubbling Back Up?
• Does Response Have the Answer?
•     CHART: Waiting for a Bounce

PERSONAL BUSINESS
• Georgia Isles on My Mind
• San Juans: Eagles Overhead, Whales Below
• Escape to Alcatraz
• Caye Caulker: Paradise Found--with No Frills
• St. Martin's: Britain's Balmy Riviera
• Stromboli: Cozying Up to a Volcano
• Phuket: Asia's Islands on the Cheap
• Bali Low: Crafts for a Song
• Monhegan: A Rustic Artists' Haven

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
• Many Roads Lead to the Top 50
• Telecom: Let the Free-For-All Begin

INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON GERMANY
• A Flood of Part-Time Workers...Has Some Pols Screaming Foul (int'l edition)
•     MAP: Germany

INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
• Unhappy Meals at McDonald's (int'l edition)
• Misplacing the Blame for Japan's Problems (int'l edition)
• Encryption Isn't Ready for Prime Time (int'l edition)
• Freedom, Not Corruption, Caused Asia's Downturn (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
• Getting Ready for the Euro Bug (int'l edition)
•     TABLE: Gearing Up for a Shiny New Currency
• Virgin vs. British Airways: The Great Train Rivalry (int'l edition)
•     CHART: Eurostar Dominates the Channel

INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
• High Risk in Malaysia (int'l edition)
•     CHART: Malaysia's Slowdown
• Indonesia's Hashim: Picking Up the Pieces (int'l edition)
•     TABLE: Hard Times for Hashim's Holdings
• The Japanese Hang Up on Handyphones (int'l edition)
• Telstra Flies High Down Under (int'l edition)
•     CHART: Telstra Takes Off
• Indians Are Boiling over Rice (int'l edition)

INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
• Luxembourg: Death of a Tax Haven? (int'l edition)
•     TABLE: The Duchy's Dilemma
• Taking Aim at Bad Czech Banks (int'l edition)
• Korea: $22 Billion in Debt? No Problem! (int'l edition)
• Banco Central Hispano: A Junkyard Dog Becomes a Prizewinner (int'l edition)
•     CHART: Banco Central Hispano's Stock Is on the Rise

INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
• Britain's Blair Is Showing the Way (int'l edition)





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