Cover Design by Francesca Messina/BW; Hand Icon Illustrations by David Flaherty.
Apr. 20, 1998
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SPECIAL REPORT
Executive Pay
TABLE: The Top-Paid Chief Executives
TABLE: And Ten Who Aren't CEOs
TABLE: Executives Who Gave Shareholders the Most for Their Pay...
TABLE: ...And Those Who Gave Shareholders the Least
TABLE: Executives Whose Companies Did the Best Relative to Their Pay...
TABLE: ...And Those Whose Companies Did the Worst
TABLE: Fortunes in the Future
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly of CEO Salaries
Scoreboard: Executive Compensation (.pdf)
UP FRONT
Talk Show
A Prince in Planet Hollywood's Orbit
Gateway 2000: Not Long for the Farm
An SUV May Stop Saturn's Eclipse
If Tickets Reflected the Cost of Movies
TABLE: How Much for the Titanic? (Extended)
Blockbuster's Early-Bird Special
Don't You Dare Dis Dell
Where to Keep Your Nest Egg Warm
TABLE: 10 Most Widely Held Funds by 401(k) Investors
CHART: Job-Turnover Tab
Footnotes
READERS REPORT
Those Dwindling Earnings--As Stock Prices Soar
Primerica: Caring for Middle-Income Families
Are Wall Street Middlemen Doomed, Like Brakemen?
How Drug Ads Help the Patient
Cable TV: 'Consumers Are Fed Up and Want a Choice'
Plant One Tree for Every American
Make the Tobacco Companies Wean Smokers Off Nicotine
The State of the Art in Cataract Surgery
Credit Unions Don't Deserve Special Privileges
In Defense of a Rival Test for Alzheimer's
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
''The BUSINESS WEEK 50'' (Cover Story, Mar. 30)
''Ratings services rush the Net'' (In Business This Week, Apr. 6)
''The Earth Is Shifting under Heavy Equipment'' (News: Analysis & Commentary, Apr. 6)
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
Don't Worry: China Isn't Following in Japan's Footsteps
ECONOMIC TRENDS
Smoking Like a House Afire
CHART: It's a Blockbuster Housing Market
Why Taxpayers File Late
Weak Profits. Not to Worry?
CHART: Great Quarters Herald Great Years
LETTER FROM HAWAII
The Asian Flu Clobbers Hawaii's Paradise
MAP: Hawaii
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: Jobs Take a Tumble, So Is the Economy Cooling Off?
CHART: Payrolls: El Nino or a Genuine Slowdown?
CHART: Factory Job Gains Slow Sharply
CHART: Services Lead the Acceleration in Wages
Britain: A Fight to Stop Services from Stoking Inflation
CHART: Manufacturing May Be Sliding into a Recession
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
Leonard Roberts: From Shack to Corner Office
Dupont Adjusts the Chemistry
GM Revs Up in Mexico
Microsoft Clicks on Venture Capital
Conseco: Insurer and Lender Both?
Warming Up for Digital TV
Et Cetera...
Motorola: Wrong Numbers
CHART: Motorola Stock Price
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
Business vs. the Righteous: Why Trade Sanctions Are Softening
Armey's Assault on Rubin
Paging Mr. Kim
Lockheed: Never Say Die
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Data Storage: From Digits to Dust
CHART: Digital Media Age Rapidly...
TABLE: ...And That's Just One Problem
Nuke Waste: Between a Rock and a Hot Place
MAP: The Status Quo Is Untenable
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
Think of It As Combat on a Conference Call
'Surround Sound' in a Hearing Aid
Small Biotech Company, Big AIDS Drug
How to Mass-Produce 'Knockout' Mice
Developments to Watch Contacts
PEOPLE
Kenny Troutt Is Rich. Now He Wants Some Respect
RESUME: Kenny A. Troutt
SOCIAL ISSUES
Commentary: Should Uncle Sam Pour More Bucks into Schools?
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
Citigroup: Really Big May Not Be Better
Microsoft: What to Do--and Not to Do
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON INDIA
A Condom Maker Feels the Heat...As Private Rivals Close in (int'l edition)
MAP: India
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
What Won't Cure Indonesia's Ills (int'l edition)
This Change Might Not Be So Irreversible (int'l edition)
The Hollowing-Out of Japanese Manufacturing (int'l edition)
Bureaucracy and High Taxes: It's the French Way (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
It's Raining Rubles on Young Talent (int'l edition)
TABLE: The Hot Jobs
Lufthansa Has the Wind Beneath Its Wings (int'l edition)
CHART: Gaining Altitude
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
The Clock Is Ticking at Casio (int'l edition)
PHOTO: Casio's Baby-G Watch
PHOTO: Casio's Mr. G Watch
PHOTO: Casio's G-Shock Watch
Racing to Get Asia Globally Wired (int'l edition)
TABLE: Hooking Up Asia
The Philippines' Perilous Open Skies (int'l edition)
TABLE: Heavy Turbulence