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Nov. 9, 1998




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COVER STORY
 Your Next Move
    COVER IMAGE: Investing: Your Next Move
    TABLE: Is It Time to Rethink Your Portfolio?
    Peter Lynch's Investor Test (Extended)
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A: Yes, Peter Lynch Does Have a Few Tips
    Throw Those Darts in the Trash
       TABLE: A Portfolio of Cyclicals
       TABLE: Defensive Stock Picks
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Proof That the Market Does Love a Rate Cut
       ONLINE ORIGINAL: TABLE: The 10 Best and 10 Worst Industry Performers
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: What's Coming? Slower Growth and Lower Profits
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: The Tech Sector's Changing Shape
    Doing the Mutual Shuffle
       TABLE: Rejiggering Your Portfolio? Consider These Funds
    The Bond Jungle
       TABLE: Junk Funds, Government Funds, and Muni Funds
       ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A: Bondmeister William Gross on Treasuries, Munis, Deflation...
    The Gurus Speak
       TABLE: Stern's Advice
       TABLE: Siegel's Strategies
       TABLE: Tatlock's Tips
       TABLE: Goetzmann's Prescription
    Are Your Stock Options under Water?
       TABLE: Before You Exercise
    Taming the Tax Man
       TABLE: Lessening the Tax Bite
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY
 Who Will Lead Russia?
    EUROPEAN COVER IMAGE: Who Will Lead Russia?
    RESUME: Yuri Luzhkov
    RESUME: Alexander Lebed
    TABLE: How Russia Could Change under a New President
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY
 Malaysia: The Feud
    ASIAN COVER IMAGE: Malaysia: The Feud
    TABLE: Mahathir vs. Anwar: An Escalating Battle
 
ENTERPRISE
 Enterprise
 
ENTERPRISE -- IN BOX
 Help! I Need Somebody
    CHART: Help! I Need Somebody
 A Break or Two from the IRS
 Hitting the Books
 Free Bug Detection
    TABLE: Finding the Freebies
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: No-Cost Fixes for Y2K Bugs
 Prods for Productivity
    TABLE: What Pumps Them Up...And Pounds Them Down
 Scanning the Scanners
 You, Too, Can Be a Special Case
 'I Won't Be in Today...'
    CHART: Absenteeism Is Rising...And So Are Its Costs...
    TABLE: ...But the Most Effective Countermeasures Aren't Much in Effect
 Footnotes
 
ENTERPRISE -- FINANCE
 Shoring Up Your Finances Is a Capital Idea
    TABLE: Don't Just Sit There
 
ENTERPRISE -- MARKETING
 Putting Boomers in Bands-- and Rocking Their Wallets
    TABLE: A Sound Plan
 
ENTERPRISE -- THE INTERNET
 Getting Collegial on the Net
    TABLE: Listserves at Your Service
    ONLINE ORIGINAL: Setting Up Your Own 'A' List
 
ENTERPRISE -- THE ENTREPRENEUR'S LIFE
 Dad's Business
 
ENTERPRISE -- UNDER 30
 Playing the Game
 
UP FRONT
 Talk Show
 Schmear Campaign: It's J&J vs. Unilever
 Buddies Twice Removed
 Private Schools' Top Earners
 Flying in the Face of Common Sense?
 Calling All Corporate Spies
 From Looking Good to Doing Good
 Sushi Bars: What Comes Around...
 CHART: The View from the Corner Office: Bleak
 Footnotes
 
READERS REPORT
 The Best B-Schools: Rehashing the Rankings
 High Ethical Standards at Citigroup
 Can Patients Handle All This Unaccustomed Power?
 The Fed Is Right to Bail Out Firms That Stumble
 
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
 ''The best B-schools'' (Special Report, Oct. 19)
    TABLE: The Correct 1998-99 Tuition Figures
 
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
 Cutting Fat Won't Be Enough to Survive This Crisis
 
ECONOMIC TRENDS
 A Recessionary Credit Crunch?
    CHART: Bank Lending Is Picking Up Steam
 Dubious Aid for the Disabled
 Office Space at a Royal Price
    CHART: The Costliest Office Sites
 
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
 The Last Days of the Home PC?
 
BOOKS
 The Hero Who Fell to Earth
    PHOTO: Cover, ''Lindbergh''
 How Gambling Is Snookering America
    PHOTO: Cover, ''Bad Bet''
 Sea, Sand, Strife
    PHOTO: Cover, ''American Beach''
 A Nation Is Born
    PHOTO: Cover, ''Germany''
 
LETTER FROM LAS VEGAS
 Highbrows and Low-Rollers
    MAP: Las Vegas
 
LETTER FROM MEXICO
 For This Turtle, Life Is No Beach Hotel
    MAP: Mexico's Caribbean Coast
 
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
 U.S.: Will Consumers Save the Day? Keep Your Fingers Crossed
    CHART: Short Lines at the Unemployment Office
    CHART: Consumers Are Anxious about the Future
    CHART: Capital Spending Still Shows Some Strength
 Spain: Playing Catch-Up in the Rate-Cutting Game
    CHART: The High Jobless Rate Is Slowly Shrinking
 
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
 A Break in the Clouds
    TABLE: There Are Signs of Life in Capital Markets...
    CHART: ...But Bond Buyers Remain Wary
    Credit Crunch? Not on Main Street
       CHART: The Banks Are Busy
 Commentary: Business and the Fed Get a Fast Start on the Slowdown
    TABLE: The Fed's Rate Cut: Finally Ahead of the Curve?
 Commentary: Microsoft: Bit by Bit, the Feds Are Making a Case...
 Commentary: ...Hah! You Call a Few Miffed Rivals a Case?
 Pigs-In-A-Budget
 How CFS Made Bad Debts Pay So Well
    TABLE: The Rise and Fall of Commercial Financial Services
 American Airlines: California, Here We Come (Again)
    CHART: American Is Small Fry in the California Market
 Got Milked?
    CHART: Drying Up
 Less Fedex for Christmas?
 2000 Reasons to Celebrate
 
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
 Alex Mandl: Local-Call Hero?
 Brazil Finally Bites the Bullet
 An End at Lands' End
 Will Windows 2000 Be Prophetic?
 A Fat Deal for Superthin Displays
 Netting Online Tipsters
 Et Cetera...
 Ebay: Going, Going...
    CHART: EBay Stock Price
 
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
 Mugging on K Street: The GOP Assault on Business Lobbyists
    TABLE: Whose Side Are They On?
 Hmos Launch Campaign 2000
 Take Our Money...Please
 A Tax-Free Pbs?
 
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
 Who Will Lead Russia?
    RESUME: Alexander Lebed
    RESUME: Yuri Luzhkov
    TABLE: How Russia Could Change under a New President
 Commentary: Is the Euro's Point Man Fighting the Wrong War?
 How a Blood Feud in Malaysia Spun out of Control
    TABLE: Anwar vs. Mahathir: An Escalating Battle
 China Cracks Down on Smugglers--and Foreign Companies
    TABLE: The Smuggler's Advantage
 
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
 The Achilles' Heel of Israel's Peace Process: Economics
 
MARKETING
 Branding on the Net
    TABLE: A Two-World Strategy
    TABLE: TV Ad Leaders Pale Online
    TABLE: What Would Make Net Consumers Click
    TABLE: Where the Net Users Are
    Can I Try (Click) That Blouse (Drag) in Blue?
    Special Report: Online Auctions
 
PEOPLE
 Jules Kroll: Danger Is His Business
    TABLE: The Kroll File
 
ENVIRONMENT
 Look Who's Thawing on Global Warming
    TABLE: The Hurdles in Buenos Aires
 
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
 Who Should Get the Transplant?
    CHART: Organ Donor Shortage
 8-Tracks, Betamax--and Divx?
    TABLE: Divx' Pluses and Minuses
 
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
 A Sea Change in Weather Forecasts
 Your Name in Lights! Very Small Lights
 Someday, a Seeing-Eye Germ?
    PHOTO: Bacteriorhodopsin Protein Molecule
 Zebrafish: A New Ally in the Lab
 Developments to Watch Contacts
 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
 Unisys Aims for the Top of the Tree
    TABLE: Larry Weinbach's Health Plan for Unisys
 Can Broadcast.com Keep Making a Big Noise?
    TABLE: Tuning in Broadcast.com
 
GOVERNMENT
 Mr. Bowles Leaves Washington
    Bowles: The Exit Interview
 
MEDIA
 Cautious Company, Risk-Loving Boss (int'l edition)
    TABLE: How Middelhoff Is Building Up Bertelsmann
 When Will Bronfman Have to Face the Music?
    CHART: Searching for a Hit
    The Other Bronfmans Are Stirring
 
THE CORPORATION
 Boeing: Fly, Damn It, Fly
    TABLE: Back to the Hangar
    CHART: As Production Levels Off...Boeing's Profits Should Improve
    A Space Venture That's Sputtering
 
FINANCE
 How Long-Term Capital Rocked Stocks, Too
    TABLE: Why Total-Return Swaps Scare Wall Street
    Ubs Failed Risk Management 101
 IPO Fees: Coincidence--or Collusion?
    CHART: Price-Fixing?
 The Case of the Gym Bag That Squealed
 
INSIDE WALL STREET
 Builders Going Through the Roof
 Does Data General Need a Partner?
    CHART: It Took a Savage Beating
 Critical Mass at Rock of Ages
    CHART: Toppled Tombstones
 
SPORTS BUSINESS
 Commentary: Baseball's Glory Days Didn't Solve a Thing
 
SOCIAL ISSUES
 Commentary: We Need These Cuban Missiles, Mr. Helms
 
MANAGEMENT
 Can Smithkline Keep Flying Solo?
    TABLE: Leschly's Prescription for SmithKline
    CHART: Going It Alone
 
THE WORKPLACE
 GM: Modular Plants Won't Be a Snap
    TABLE: Building the Modular Car
 
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
 Time to Think About a Tax Cut
 Who's Watching the Hedge Funds?
 
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON ISRAEL
 A Battle Royal over Settler Business...As Palestinians Still Can't Find Jobs (int'l edition)
    MAP: Israel
 
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
 Canadian Health Care Is Efficient and Fair (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
 China's Smuggling Crackdown: A Double-Edged Sword (int'l edition)
    TABLE: Handsome Advantage
 Hyundai-Kia: Car Deal or Car Crash? (int'l edition)
    Hyundai's Chung: 'We Welcome Any Kind of Foreign Investment' (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICA
 Commentary: Can Brazil Deliver on Its Austerity Plan? (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- SPECIAL REPORT
 The Best Offshore Funds (int'l edition)
    TABLE: The Top Performers
    TABLE: The Largest Funds
    TABLE: The Best of 1998...And the Worst
    TABLE: Offshore Funds Scoreboard (.pdf)
    Great Scot--That's a Bargain (int'l edition)
       TABLE: Top Picks
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
 Don't Let Russia Renege on Reforms (int'l edition)
 How Mahathir Is Undoing His Legacy (int'l edition)



 
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