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Oct. 26, 1998




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COVER STORY
 Digital D-Day
    COVER IMAGE: Digital D-Day
    TABLE: The Digital-TV Battlefield
    PHOTO: NBC's New All-Digital Broadcast Studio in New York
    Defining Terms on High Definition
       TABLE: What Is Digital TV?
    Will They Rope 'em with Digital in Dallas?
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Why Japan Is Facing a Delayed Digital D-Day
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Will Digital TV Help Satellite Broadcasters Beat Cable?
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Ex-FCC Honcho Hundt: Still Butting Heads With Broadcasters
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Unity Motion: An HDTV Pioneer--with Some Fuzzy Plans
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Lucent's Early Lead in a Tiny Market: Why Investors Should Care
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY
 Then Came Branson (int'l edition)
    COVER IMAGE: Branson
    PHOTO: Richard Branson at Launching of Virgin Cola
    PHOTO: Richard Branson at Launching of Virgin Bridal
    PHOTO: Richard Branson
    RESUME: Richard Branson
    TABLE: Branson's Bugaboos
    TABLE: Virgin Key Businesses
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY
 The Perils of Red Capitalism
    COVER IMAGE: The Perils of Red Capitalism
    TABLE: The Risks to the Big Trusts
    CHART: The Tumble in Trust-Related Stocks
    Wang: CITIC Isn't on the Ropes (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICAN COVER STORY
 Latin America's New Business Elite (int'l edition)
    COVER IMAGE: Latin America's New Business Elite
    TABLE: Twenty Five Leaders to Watch
    Manager: Benjamin Steinbruch (int'l edition)
    Manager: Luis Giusti (int'l edition)
    Manager: Beatrice E. Rangel (int'l edition)
    Manager: Lorenzo Zambrano Trevino (int'l edition)
    Manager: Dionisio Garza Medina (int'l edition)
    Manager: Daniel Servitje Montull (int'l edition)
    Opinion Shaper: Xochitl Galvez Ruiz (int'l edition)
    Opinion Shaper: Alejandro Junco De La Vega (int'l edition)
    Opinion Shaper: Jose Pinera (int'l edition)
       PHOTO: Jose Pinera
    Opinion Shaper: David Zylbersztajn (int'l edition)
    Opinion Shaper: Jorge Fontevecchia (int'l edition)
       PHOTO: Jorge Fontevecchia
    Opinion Shaper: Joaquin Leguia Orezzoli (int'l edition)
    Opinion Shaper: Jorge Campbell (int'l edition)
    Financier: Roberto Setubal (int'l edition)
    Financier: Juan Navarro (int'l edition)
    Financier: Alvaro Saieh (int'l edition)
    Financier: Paulo Ferraz (int'l edition)
    Financier: Elena Landau (int'l edition)
    Entrepreneur: Alfonso Romo Garza (int'l edition)
    Entrepreneur: Eduardo Elsztain (int'l edition)
    Entrepreneur: Marcelo Lacerda (int'l edition)
    Entrepreneur: Alejandro Soberon Kuri (int'l edition)
    Entrepreneur: Guilherme Peirao Leal (int'l edition)
    Entrepreneurs: Ramior Agulla & Carlos Baccetti (int'l edition)
 
UP FRONT
 Talk Show
 A Famous Bear Sees Honey Ahead
 The Free Lunch from Bloomberg Peters Out
 Double Viagra with Nuts, Please
 A Ticket Fee Hike: Will It Fly?
 Acer Scales Back Its Aspirations
 General Dynamics Packs a Payload
    PHOTO: Nicholas Chabraja, CEO, General Dynamics
 Financialese: Clean It Up--or Else
 CHART: Lots of Room at the Inn
 Footnotes
 
EDITOR'S MEMO
 Microsoft on Trial: An Invitation
 
READERS REPORT
 CPAs: Who's Watching the Watchers?
 Kaplan's Gmat Program: Focused and Successful
 When 'Market-Neutral' Is Anything But
 Where the Bronx Bombers Are Really Bombing
 Slamming a Spammer Can Get out of Hand
 Give Nippon Credit Some Credit
 
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
 ''Hard-driving boss'' (People, Oct. 5)
 ''Bad banks: Why Japan's pols are paralyzed'' (International Business, Oct. 5)
 ''The GMATs: To prep or not to prep'' (Personal Business, Oct. 19)
 
BOOKS
 Witch Hunt in the Groves of Academe
    PHOTO: Cover, ''The Baltimore Case''
 A New Cancer Drug's Birth and Near-Death
    PHOTO: Cover, ''Her-2''
 The Cajun Rages
    PHOTO: Cover, ''...And the Horse He Rode In On''
 Silicon Dreams
    PHOTO: Cover, ''The Invisible Computer''
 
LETTER FROM RUSSIA
 Homecoming for Russia's Erstwhile Elite
    MAP: Russia
 
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
 Catching E-Mail on the Fly
    PHOTO: Sharp TelMail TM-20 with PocketMail
    PHOTO: Sharp TelMail Phone Handset
 Browse Smarter
 
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
 The Global Meltdown: What to Do Next
 
ECONOMIC TRENDS
 It's Not Just Social Security
    CHART: Health Care's Future 800-Pound Gorilla
 A Good Spell in the Clink
 Shifting Travel Costs for Execs
    CHART: Where the Staying Is Pricey
 
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
 U.S.: The Credit Squeeze Is Starting to Pinch
    CHART: Credit Spreads Widen Sharply
    CHART: Another Good Quarter for Most Retailers
    CHART: Is This Housing's Last Hurrah?
 Britain: A Cut, a Palpable Cut
    CHART: After a Spring Jump, Inflation Falls Back
 
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
 Letting Off Steam
    CHART: The Dollar: A Year Later Back Where It Started
    Commentary: A Not-So-Brawny Greenback to the Rescue!
    Japan's Bank Bailout: Painkiller or Real Reform? (int'l edition)
 Corporate America: Hunkering Down in a Hurry
    CHART: Sign of the Times: Slower Capital Spending
 Suddenly, It Is a Small World--for Disney's Profits
    CHART: Oh No, Mickey!
 A Great Big Trial in a Great Big Hurry
    TABLE: How to Streamline a Trial for Internet Time
    Sun Takes the Stand
 Gliding toward a Labor Union at American Airlines?
 For Ford, a Great Time to Be Flush
 Commentary: The Mother Teresa of Economics
    RESUME: The Book on Amartya Sen
 
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
 John Stafford: American Home Still Wants to Cohabit
 Bankamerica Gets Burned
 Bell Atlantic's Pacific Exposure
 A Partial Victory for Sea Turtles
 Another Hedge Fund Gets Trimmed
 The Portals Probe: A Serious Step?
 Et Cetera...
 Cognizant Tech: Still Ticking
    CHART: Cognizant Tech Solutions Stock Price
 
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
 The 105th Congress: How the Republicans Blew It
    TABLE: Casualties on the Hill
 
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
 These Laptops Are Sleek, Light, Cheap--and Japanese
    PHOTO: Sony Vaio 505 Laptop
    PHOTO: Toshiba DynaBook 3000 Laptop
 How Far Left Will Europe Lean?
    TABLE: How the Left Could Get Pushier
 
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
 How Quebec's Wily Premier May Keep Separatism Alive
 Suharto: The Vise Tightens
 Strikes in Colombia
 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
 Microsoft: No Letup--and No Apologies
    TABLE: New Worlds to Conquer
    TABLE: The Microsoft Money Machine
    PHOTO: Bill Gates in 1986, 1991, and 1998
 The Skinny on Niche Portals
    TABLE: Bulking Up
 Cnet: A Home for Techies and Newbies Alike?
    TABLE: New Look for CNET
 
SPORTS BUSINESS
 Commentary: Pro Football in L.A.? Don't Bet the Bentley
 
THE CORPORATION
 Perils of the Hedge Highwire
    TABLE: Four Companies, Four Strategies
 
PEOPLE
 'Deal Junkie' Jeff Marcus Gets a New Fix
    RESUME: Jeff Marcus
 
LEGAL AFFAIRS
 What's Next--a Patent for the 401(k)?
    TABLE: Locking Up the Rights
 
GOVERNMENT
 What They Don't Say About Matt Fong
 
SPECIAL REPORT
 A $2.5 Trillion Market You Hardly Know
    TABLE: The Boom in Packaged Debt
    Bad Loans Made Good
       TABLE: Anatomy of a Deal
       CHART: Asset-Backed Deals Are Booming...And So Are Mortgage-Backs...
       CHART: ...But Spreads Are Rising...And Downgrades Are Climbing
    An Exit Plan for Japan?
    Asset-Backed Gambling?
       The Skeptic: 'There Were Screaming Matches'
    Commentary: Securitization Is No Security Blanket
 
INSIDE WALL STREET
 WMS Industries Is All Set to Pass Go
    CHART: One of This Year's Best Bets
 Who'll Pounce on Gryphon?
    CHART: An Insurer in a Slump
 Paul Harris Aims to Get Spruced Up
    CHART: Looking a Bit Threadbare
 
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
 Putting All Radios on the Same Wavelength
 Mother Nature Is Striking Back
 A Faster Method for Detecting E. Coli
 Now, High-Definition Hearing AIDS
 Developments to Watch Contacts
 
PERSONAL BUSINESS
 Recession Play: Look for the Dividends
    TABLE: Making the Cut
 Commentary: Fund Fees Are Rising. Who's to Blame?
    CHART: Expenses: Up, Up, and Away
 Why Windsor Fund Went South
 Commentary: How I Learned to Love Online Trading
 Good News About the Flu: Shots Work
    TABLE: Flu Resources on the Net
 Breast Cancer: New Reasons for Hope
    TABLE: A Roster of Resources
 Is Soy the Recipe for What Ails You?
    TABLE: A Health Food Store Sampler
 Cut by a Medicare HMO?
    TABLE: Options for the HMO-less
 
BUSINESS WEEK INDEX
 Business Week Index
    HISTORICAL DATA: BW Index Back to 1992
    CHART: Production Index
 The Week Ahead
 
INVESTMENT FIGURES OF THE WEEK
 Investment Figures of the Week
    CHART: Mutual Funds Returns
    CHART: Investment Figures of the Week
 
EDITORIALS
 The Age of Uncertainty
 Scrambled Signals on the Digital Front
 
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON SLOVAKIA
 A 'Black Hole' Emits Some Light...But the Old Gang Isn't Giving Up (int'l edition)
    MAP: Slovakia
 
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
 What the World Needs Now Is Demand (int'l edition)
 How India's Cities Can Stave Off Disaster (int'l edition)
 Why the Tune-Out in Toyland? (int'l edition)
 The Downside of One Great Big Economy (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
 ''Sayonara to Profits'' (Asian Business, Sept. 28) (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
 How Far Left Will Europe Lean? (int'l edition)
    TABLE: How the Left Could Get Pushier
 Compaq Gets Down and Dirty in Dresden (int'l edition)
 The IMF Makes Investors Share Ukraine's Pain (int'l edition)
    TABLE: Behind the IMF ''Bail-In''
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
 He Saw the Crisis Coming--but It Didn't Help (int'l edition)
    CHART: Thai Farmers' Rough Stock Ride
 
INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
 The Great Investment Bank Shakeout of 1998 (int'l edition)
    TABLE: Who's Hurting
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIAL
 No Time for Austerity in Europe



 
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