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Aug. 17, 1998




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COVER STORY
 How Worried Should You Be?
    COVER IMAGE: How Worried Should You Be?
    TABLE: After the Peak
    TABLE: Is the Market Overvalued?
    CHART: Omens of a Market Fall
    CHART: The Dow's Chilly Summer
    Commentary: Don't Let Mr. Market Push You Around
       TABLE: Some Guidelines for Dealing with a Correction
    A Downturn Could Really Rock the Boat
       CHART: Savings Have Plunged...But Wealth Has Risen...And Spending Has Soared
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: For 'day-Traders,' the Turmoil Is Terrific
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY
 Asia: Social Backlash (int'l edition)
    ASIAN COVER IMAGE: Asia's Social Backlash
    Korea: A Sense of Betrayal (int'l edition)
       TABLE: Where the Pain Bites Deepest
    Japan: Invisible Jobless (int'l edition)
    Thailand: Banking Chaos (int'l edition)
       Thailand's Finance Minister: 'The Economy Is in a Shambles' (int'l edition)
 
UP FRONT
 Talk Show
 Justice Is Looking for a Few Good Hackers
 Is Visa's Online Strategy Off-Key?
 From Ringing Bells to Cloning Mice
 Space May Have a Nasty Y2K Surprise, Too
 Haute Couture Hits the Playground
    PHOTO: DKNY Kids School Uniform Rendering
 Big Green from the Cleveland Browns
    PHOTO: Cleveland Browns Clothing
 The Web for Free? Not So Fast
 CHART: Nesting, the Old-Fashioned Way
 Footnotes
 
READERS REPORT
 Ahead of the Curve on Biotech Bodies
 A Brighter Way to Power America?
 Bash Tax Laws, Not Tax Collectors
 Drivers Aim to Keep on Truckin'
 Uncle Sam Is No Stock Analyst
 The Indians Scalp the Buckeyes
 Prices May Be Stable, but Add-on Fees Are Soaring
 
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
 ''Making seismic waves in the oil field'' (The Corporation, July 27)
 
LETTER FROM MASSACHUSETTS
 Campfires, Frisbee--and Consciousness-Raising
    MAP: Massachusetts
 
BOOKS
 The High Priest of Hype
    PHOTO: Cover, ''The Father of Spin''
 
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
 Win98: A Guide to the Guides
    TABLE: Windows 98 by the Book
 
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
 Why the Antitrust Cops Should Lay Off High Tech
 
ECONOMIC TRENDS
 First Hired, First Fired?
    CHART: Senior Workers Get the Boot
 Steve Forbes, Muni Slayer
 A Fairer Share for Women
 Job Violence: A Global Survey
    TABLE: Where the Danger Lurks
 
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
 U.S.: Trouble on Wall Street May Mean Trouble on Main Street
    CHART: Spending Is Far Outpacing Income
    CHART: Purchasers Report a ''Slow-Paced Decline''
    CHART: Benefits Start to Push Labor Costs Higher
 Italy: Lagging Exports Are a Drag on the Economy
    CHART: Retailers Post an Unexpected Gain
 
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
 GM: It'll Be a Long Road Back
    TABLE: GM Tries to Shift into Higher Gear
 A New Chapter for Amazon.com
 Bell Atlantic's Ivan Seidenberg: The Conciliator
 The Rumble in the 49ers Owner's Box
 
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
 Rod Canion: A Tutorial for Software Startups
 Conflicting Signals over Amp
 User-Friendly Treasuries
 Sony Ponies Up to the SEC
 The Fracas at Promus
 Reebok's Kick at Nine West
 Et Cetera...
 Sci: Short-Circuited
    CHART: SCI Stock Price
 
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
 Maybe Not Such a Bad Year for Business After All
 New Budget Showdown
 Wanted: An FAA Deputy
 Curbing Medical-Device Suits
 
SPECIAL REPORT
 Asia's Social Backlash
    Korea: Rage and Despair
       TABLE: Where the Pain Bites Deepest
    Japan: Hidden Jobless
    Thailand: Banking Chaos
 
PEOPLE
 Carlson's Marilyn Nelson: 'I Want to Lead with Love, Not Fear'
 
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
 Do the Math--It is a Small World
    TABLE: Missing Link
 
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
 Heading Off Hearing Loss at the Passage
 At Last, a Car That Cleans Itself
 How to Preserve the Zip in Zapped Food
    PHOTO: Schematic of Microwaved Egg
 Rainy Weekend? It's Your Fault
 Developments to Watch Contacts
 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
 Chipmakers Add Up the Calamities
    CHART: Back in the Chips?
 For Intel, It's Not Easy Being Cheap
    CHART: Intel Doesn't Have a Lock in Low-End Markets
 
MEDIA
 MSNBC: This Little Peacock Is Showing Some Pluck
    TABLE: MSNBC Edges Closer in TV News...While Battling in Cyberspace
 
SPORTS BUSINESS
 Women's Tennis: Volley of the Dolls
    PHOTO: Russia's Anna Kournikova with the Spice Girls
    Billy Jean King: 'You've Got to Give People a Spectacle'
 Does Samsung Control Golfer Se Ri Pak?
 
THE CORPORATION
 Cendant: Who's to Blame?
    TABLE: Questions of Control
 Commentary: M&A Frenzy May Be Scuttling Due Diligence
 
LEGAL AFFAIRS
 Microsoft Takes the Stand
    TABLE: E-Mail: It's Microsoft's Turn
 
FINANCE
 A Sour Note for Bruce Wasserstein
    TABLE: The Red Ant Trap
 Offshore Squall at Painewebber
 Commentary: Uncle Sam Is Giving Banks a Free Ride
    TABLE: Big Player
 
INSIDE WALL STREET
 CBS: Are Buyers Tuning In?
    CHART: Coming into Sharper Focus
 Top Tips in Small-Caps
 Acid May Liven Up Sonic Foundry
    CHART: A Downbeat Moment
 
CORPORATE SCOREBOARD
 A Triple Whammy to the Bottom Line
    TABLE: Winners and Losers in Quarterly Profits
    CHART: Aftertax Profits Quarter by Quarter
    Industries with the Biggest Dollar Change in the Quarter
       CHART: Change in Aftertax Profits from 1997
    The Asian Flu Now, Pneumonia Later?
       CHART: Tumbling Currencies
    Scoreboard: 1998 Second-Quarter Profits (.pdf)
 
PERSONAL BUSINESS
 Investing for Kids: Child's Play on the Web
    TABLE: Money Lessons for Kids
 What Work-At-Home Parents Can Snag on the Net
    TABLE: Connections for Working Parents
 Getting the Lead Out
    TABLE: Is Your Home at Risk?
    TABLE: Lead Paint Resources
 How to Avoid Your Very Own Nannygate
    TABLE: What You Need to Do
    TABLE: Where to Get Help
 
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
 Wall Street and the Economy
 Austerity Isn't Working in Asia
 
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON THE CZECH REPUBLIC
 Heavy Traffic on the Hooker Highway...A Road That's Tough to Exit
    MAP: Czech Republic
 
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
 Human Tissue Is a European Crop, Too (int'l edition)
 Japan: Getting Back in the Public's Good Graces (int'l edition)
 GM Should Look Within--and without (int'l edition)
 Asia: 'A Victim of Its Own Excesses'? (int'l edition)
 Conqueror Mentality Can Sink a Foreign Venture (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
 Efficient Euro Post Offices? Here They Come (int'l edition)
    TABLE: Innovations at the Post Office
 Avtovaz: Anatomy of a Russian Corporate Wreck (int'l edition)
    TABLE: How a Giant Carmaker Stumbled
 
INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICA
 Televisa: Turnaround, Take Two (int'l edition)
    CHART: Televisa's Tumble
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
 Why Russia Needs a Cash Economy (int'l edition)



 
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