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Apr. 20, 1998




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COVER STORY
 What to Do about Microsoft
    COVER IMAGE: What to Do about Microsoft
    CHART: The Microsoft Money Machine
    Scenario 1: Uncle Sam Leaves Bill Gates Alone
       CHART: There Are More New Startups Than Ever...
       TABLE: ...And Some Are Finding a Home at Microsoft
    Scenario 2: Justice Slows the Giant with 'Surgical Strikes'
    Scenario 3: The Feds Split Microsoft in Two
       TABLE: Twin Geeks
    Epilogue: Weighing the Risks and Rewards
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: The View from Wall Street
    READER SURVEY: What to Do about Microsoft?
 
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)
 
BOOKS
 Can Science Make Sense of Everything?
    PHOTO: Cover, ''Consilience''
 The New Newt
    PHOTO: Cover, ''Lessons Learned the Hard Way''
 
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
 Microsoft Gives the Mac a Hand
    TABLE: Microsoft Office 98: Macintosh Edition
 
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
 
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
 Citigroup: Just the Start?
    PHOTO: Sanford Weill and John Reed, Co-CEOs of Citigroup
    TABLE: What's Driving the Finance Revolution
    The 'Coca-Cola of Personal Finance'
       TABLE: How the Pieces Fit
    This Merger Will Make Big Waves
       TABLE: The Fallout
    Commentary: Great Big Company. Great Big Mistake?
 Consumers Have Money to Burn
    CHART: Why Americans Are on a Spree
 Home Builders: If We Build It, They Will Pounce
    CHART: A Seller's Market
 Commentary: Big Tobacco's Hard Line Won't Soften Congress
 Is It Possible? A Bum Chip from Intel?
    CHART: Accelerating
 Thwarting Cancer with Designer Estrogens
    GRAPHIC: Running Interference
 Meet George, the Oscar for Corporate Philanthropy
    TABLE: Ten Finalists
 
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
 
FINANCE
 These Bulls Don't Want to Say 'I Told You So,' but...
    CHART: Reaching for the Sky
 Corporate Profits: Fading...Or Still Vigorous?
    TABLE: Industry Earnings: All Over the Map
 
INSIDE WALL STREET
 Alcoa Forges Strong Links
    CHART: An Unalloyed Bargain
 Don't Cross Off Cross
    CHART: Is the Writing on the Wall?
 Rich Harvest at Pioneer?
    CHART: Seeds to Sow
 
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
 Japan Is Bagging More Tigers
    TABLE: How Japan Is Digging into Southeast Asia
 
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
 Hong Kong: Now the Rule of Law Is in Jeopardy
 Philippine Election Worries
 Korean Talks Resume
 
BITS & BYTES
 How Your PC Could Suddenly Go Postal
 Apple Cuts Out Another Bad Spot
 Mom, Can We Hook Up My Barbie to the Computer?
    CHART: Toys R Networked
    PHOTO: Barbie
 Dell: You Can't Go Too Fast
 Bits & Bytes Contacts
 
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?
 
PERSONAL BUSINESS
 Caveat Investor at These Seminars
    Advice with No Snake Oil
 My Trip Through PC Hell
    TABLE: Support Systems
 Giving a Boost to Aging Bones
 
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



 
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