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July 13, 1998




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COVER STORY
 Steven Spielberg: The Storyteller
    COVER IMAGE: Spielberg
    PHOTO: Steven Spielberg
    PHOTO: Steven Spielberg Preparing a Scene From ''Jaws''
    PHOTO: George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
    PHOTO: Steven Spielberg and Liam Neeson
    PHOTO: Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks
    PHOTO: Steven Spielberg Meets with Hospitalized Children
    TABLE: The Adventures of Steven Spielberg
    TABLE: Spielberg's Entertainment Empire
    TABLE: Anatomy of a Spielberg Hit
    Will This Be Dreamworks' Dream Summer?
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Over at Disney, Investors Aren't So Charmed
 
INTERNATIONAL -- COVER STORY
 The Global 1000 (int'l edition)
    INT'L COVER IMAGE: The Global 1000
    TABLE: How the Giants Stack Up
    TABLE: Market Guide for Investors
    TABLE: How Stock Deals Are Driving Consolidation
    TABLE: The Global 1000 Scoreboards (.pdf) (int'l edition)
    Emerging Markets: The Winners in a Losing Year(int'l edition)
 
UP FRONT
 Talk Show
 Opening at the Fed: Economists Need Not Apply
 American Airlines Lightens Up
 When in Beijing, Mum's the Word
 A New Team at Business Day
 Hey, It's Green--It Must Be Healthy
 At the Ballpark: 'Get Yer Red-Hot--Er--Chef's Salads!'
 When the Pc Runs the Household
 CHART: Genus Et Scientia
 Footnotes
 
READERS REPORT
 Can Main Street Compete with the Net?
 How to Hang on to Those Burned-Out Workers
 Labor and Management Have Both Failed GM
 Game Theory Wasn't Meant to Be a Forecasting Tool
 
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
 ''More questions for a Dreyfus fund manager'' (Finance, June 29)
 
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
 Apple's Powerbooks: The Lamborghini of Laptops
    TABLE: Powerful PowerBooks
 
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
 Milton Friedman: Being Right Is the Best Revenge
 
ECONOMIC TRENDS
 How to Cure Medicare's Ills
    CHART: Two Patterns of Care for the Seriously Ill
 Rival Reports on Consumers
 New York City's Widespread Revival
    CHART: Growth Spurts in the Big Apple
 
BOOKS
 Single Women in a Hostile World
    PHOTO: Cover, ''Bridget Jones's Diary''
    PHOTO: Cover, ''The Improvised Woman''
 
LETTER FROM FINLAND
 Where Music Sets the Tempo
    MAP: Finland
 
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
 U.S.: Consumers Are All Smiles and Open Wallets
    CHART: Optimism Shows No Sign of Topping Out
    CHART: Home Sales Are Going Through the Roof
    CHART: Purchasers Say Asia Is Taking a Toll
 Spain: Cruising into the Euro Era
    CHART: Job Growth Is Accelerating
 
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
 The Shutdown GM Needs?
    CHART: Stuck in Reverse
    TABLE: Whatever Happens in the Strike, Outsiders Say GM Should...
    Commentary: Why It's Time to Lay Down the Placards
 Commentary: Spend the Dough on Social Security and the Tax Code
    TABLE: The Many Ways Congress Could Squander the Surplus
 Medicare's Squeeze Play
    TABLE: The Budget Effect
 Commentary: Finally, a Corporate Tip Sheet on Sexual Harassment
    TABLE: The Court Strikes a Balance
 Commentary: The U.S. and China: Now for the Follow-Through
 Small Exporters Turn Their Size into a Big Advantage
    TABLE: Soaring Dollar? No Problem
 El Nino's Nasty Sister
 
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
 Frank Quattrone: Team Quattrone Rides Again
 Packard Bell Rings in a New CEO
 A Toxic Privatization?
 In the Bidder's Box for Saks
 It's Looking Like Good News Corp.
 Boeing Production Takes Wing
 Et Cetera...
 Nike: Barely Doing It
    CHART: Nike Stock Price
 
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
 Newt May Have Put Fast-Track on an Even Slower Boat
 The Gop's Gift to the Dems
 Run, Jesse, Run?
 
GOVERNMENT
 Got a Problem? Dr. Ickes Is In
    TABLE: The Ickes Files
 
ECONOMICS
 An Outbreak of Optimism
    CHART: Raging Bullishness
    BW/HARRIS POLL: Pollyanna Nation (Extended)
 
SPORTS BUSINESS
 Basketball's David Stern: This Time, It's Personal
    CHART: Revenues Are Rising...But Not As Fast As Salaries...So the League Is in the Red
    PHOTO: Shaquille O'Neal Reebok Ad
 
FINANCE
 Dubious Dealings before Dreyfus
    TABLE: The Schonberg Affair: Some Unanswered Questions
 Does Wharton's Jeremy Siegel Have Alan Greenspan's Ear?
    PHOTO: Jeremy Siegel
    TABLE: The Top Twenty, 1998 vs. 1964
 These Hedges Have Some Thorns
    TABLE: How the Big Funds Fared
 
INSIDE WALL STREET
 Small-Caps to Stick a Feather In
    TABLE: Red Chip Review's Top Picks
 Wiztec Sends Out Strong Signals
    CHART: Just Starting to Whiz
 Kellstrom Brass Loads Up on Stock
    CHART: And the Engines Are Roaring
 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
 Lew Platt's Fix-It Plan for Hewlett-Packard
    TABLE: The Diary of a Stumbling High-Tech Leader
    TABLE: Platt's Fix-It Plan
    TABLE: HP's Squeeze on Margins
 
BITS & BYTES
 What Office Desktop Users Really Want
    TABLE: Corporate Tech Buying Plans
 Know Any Teens with That Midas Touch?
 Speeding Drug-Trial Data to the FDA
 Now, the Cops Are Strapping on Computers
 Bits & Bytes Contacts
 
THE CORPORATION
 Can Nissan Regain Its Youth?
    CHART: Wrong Turn
 
MANAGEMENT
 Columbia B-School Makes the A-List
    RESUME: Meyer Feldberg
 
MARKETING
 Now, Tennis Balls Are Chasing the Dogs
    CHART: Tennis Ball Bust
 
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
 This Microscope Can Poke at Atoms
 A Tiny Turbine to Power Your Laptop
 To Zap Sand Flies, Try Buffalo Breath
 Virtual Skiers Can 'feel' the Moguls
 Developments to Watch Contacts
 
PERSONAL BUSINESS
 What to Do before Disaster Strikes
    TABLE: Protecting Against Calamity
 A Fund That's Riding the European Wave
    TABLE: Warburg Pincus Bets on Europe
 Health Studies: Separating Ballyhoo from Breakthrough
    TABLE: Where to Find Online Medical Studies
 IRA Conversions
 
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
 Asia: One Year Later
 Gm's Chance to Get It Right
 
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON VENEZUELA
 A Tropical Fashion Hotbed Shapes Up...As Buyers Flock to a Smart Chain (int'l edition)
    MAP: Venezuela
    PHOTO: Dress By Angel Sanchez, Venezuelan Fashion Designer
 
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
 English in All Its Glory (int'l edition)
 Politics Is the Problem. What's the Solution?(int'l edition)
 Baalbek Has No Truck with Terrorism (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
 Eastern Germany's Jenoptik Rises from the Rubble (int'l edition)
    TABLE: Saga of a Makeover
 Financial Supermarkets? Aegon Says 'bah!'(int'l edition)
    RESUME: Kees J. Storm
 The Cell Phone As Handheld Miracle (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
 Asian Revolt against the IMF (int'l edition)
    'We Are Not Protecting Anybody' (int'l edition)
    A Talk with Singapore's Elder Statesman (Extended) (int'l edition)
 Matsushita: The Electronic Giant Wakes Up (int'l edition)
    TABLE: Remaking Matsushita
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
 Equity Makes the World Go 'round (int'l edition)



 
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