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Jan. 25, 1999




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COVER STORY
The Coup at Goldman
   COVER IMAGE: The Coup at Goldman
   PHOTO: Jon Corzine
   CHART: Ready for the IPO?
   TABLE: Shuffling the Deck
   Goldman's ''Dealmaker Supreme''
      PHOTO: John Thornton
   How Much Is Goldman Worth? Maybe Less Than You Think
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: A Tricky Time for Financial Stocks
 
INTERNATIONAL -- INTERNATIONAL COVER STORY
Autos: The Global Six (int'l edition)
   INT'L COVER IMAGE: Who Will Survive?
   TABLE: The Likely Survivors
   TABLE: Forces Behind the Race to Merge
   Mmm, Taste That Merger Money (int'l edition)
 
UP FRONT
Talk Show
Will Pfizer Have to Take Its Medicine?
How Daimler Crosses the Pond
The $2,000 Wrong Number
Microsoft Didn't Swat All the Y2K Bugs
From Burger King, the Fly-Through Window
   PHOTO: Burger King ''Whopper Chopper''
Sponsors Plaster Every Mountain
Caught in the Spam Crossfire
CHART: Hey, Big Spender
Footnotes
 
READERS REPORT
Managed Care Gets a Bum Rap
In Case of Emergency, Break Glass Ceiling
Attacking Impeachment with ''Chicken Little'' Rhetoric
Penalize Clinton--with Early Departure from Office
Cyberstocks, You Are No Microsoft
The Saving Grace of Spending on Durables
A Stock Will Do Again What It Did Before
Criminal Justice: An Ounce of Prevention...
What Middle Managers Can Learn from Ken Chenault
 
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
''Real estate: Prognosis 1999'' (Industry Outlook: Services, Jan. 11)
 
BOOKS
After a Bloody Century, Has Europe Changed?
   PHOTO: Cover, ''Dark Continent''
 
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
Battle of the Lightweight Laptops
   TABLE: Small and Smaller
   PHOTO: Toshiba Portege 3015CT
   PHOTO: HP Jornada 820
 
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
Megamergers Are a Clear and Present Danger
 
ECONOMIC TRENDS
Not-So-Strange Bedfellows
   CHART: Getting More Bang for the Political Buck?
Deciphering the Jobless Rate
What's Crimping Asia's Revival
   CHART: East Asia's Capital Woes
 
DIGITAL DISPATCH
Silicon Valley Finds Its Past Is a Blast
   TABLE: Pointers
   PHOTO: Doug Engelbart
   PHOTO: The Original Mouse Prototype
   PHOTO: Engelbart's Workstation
 
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: There's Something Screwy about the Strong Labor Stats
   CHART: Inconsistent Trends in the Labor Markets
   CHART: A Wave of Layoffs in Manufacturing
   CHART: Car Sales Surge at Yearend
Britain: In a Rate-Cutting Mood
   CHART: Manufacturing Output Is Down Sharply
 
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
That Fragile Recovery
   CHART: Will Rates Stay Low?
   Brazil: ''The Genie Is out of the Bottle''
Commentary: Cracking This Crazy Economy
   CHART: High Tech Keeps U.S. Ahead
Net Stocks: A Slight Case of Vertigo
   CHART: The January Effect on Internet Stocks
Is Reader's Digest About to Get Hitched?
   PHOTO: Thomas O. Ryder
   TABLE: Creating a Juggernaut
Insured for Y2K? Don't Count on It
   TABLE: Y2K Uncovered!
The Veep: Call Me Al, Corporate America's Pal
Commentary: HMOs: When an Ounce of Prevention Costs Too Much
   CHART: Drug Highs
Campbell's Wet Noodles
Lucent Clicks with Ascend
 
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
Barry Diller: Return of the Mogul
The SEC Is Livid over Livent
Minorities Get a Wall Street Boost
Zippier Web Links from AOL
eBay Cracks Down on Fraud
BofA: A Pink-Slip Blizzard Is Coming
Et Cetera...
Gucci Coup?
   CHART: Gucci Stock Price
 
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
White House 2000: You Want Outsiders? We Got Outsiders
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A with GOP Presidential Hopeful John McCain
Fast Track for Bank Reform?
 
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Is South Korea's Recovery for Real?
   CHART: Korea Rising?
How Vodafone Aims to Rule the Wireless World
   TABLE: A Mobile Colossus
Commentary: It's Time for the EC to Tackle Corruption
British Consumers: They're Not Gonna Take It Anymore
 
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
Desert Fox Has Saddam Backed into a Corner
Indonesia Gets a Workout
A Euro Made in China?
 
INDUSTRIES
Autos: The Global Six
   TABLE: The Likely Survivors
   TABLE: Forces Behind the Race to Merge
 
SPORTS BUSINESS
Yikes! Mike Takes a Hike
   TABLE: The King of the Pitchmen Has Deals With...
   A Slam-Dunk for Random House?
      PHOTO: Cover, ''Playing for Keeps''
   Commentary: What Do We Want from Our Sports Heroes?
 
LEGAL AFFAIRS
Microsoft on Trial: The View at Halftime
   TABLE: Now, It's Microsoft's Turn
 
GOVERNMENT
Red Cross Wonder Woman?
 
INSIDE WALL STREET
Robust Growth Is in Cerus' Blood
   CHART: The Pulse Is Picking Up
First Union Aims for the Top Tier
Will Web Biggies Spy Spiegel?
   CHART: Whispers Have Started
 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Mike Armstrong's Strong Showing
   TABLE: How Armstrong Has Made Good on His Word
 
BITS & BYTES
Gen X-ers Say the Darndest Things
Sit Back, and Let This Service Do the Surfing
   TABLE: Fun Still Rules
Introducing Cyber-Age Truck Stops
It Walks Like a PC, It Talks Like a PC--but It's Your TV
Bits & Bytes Contacts
 
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
The Shape of Robots to Come?
   GRAPHIC: A Bridge That Engineers Itself
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: Sites Where Fractal Robots Roam
 
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
One More Step toward an AIDS Vaccine
Heat and Light from the Far Side of the Moon
Making Life Easier for Diabetics
Innovations
Developments to Watch Contacts
 
THE CORPORATION
Drawing a Bead on the Headhunters
   TABLE: Federated vs. Herbert Mines
Ziff-Davis Is Printing in Red Ink
   CHART: Internet Fever Lifts Ziff's Stock...Even as Profits Slide
 
PERSONAL BUSINESS
Click Here for Index Futures
   TABLE: Online Trading Options
   How to Get Some Practice
Commentary: Why the Roth Needs a Revamp
A ''Pause'' Button for Tube Junkies
Fund Watch: Q&A with Millennium Growth's Robert Dowlett
   PHOTO: Robert Dowlett
There's Hope for Those Aching Joints
   TABLE: Arthritis Resources
   TABLE: Trade-offs in the Pain Game
 
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
Is the Stock Market Too High?
Let the Dollar Go Its Own Way
 
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON POLAND
A Ski Town Catches Olympic Fever...But the Greens Are Grumpy (int'l edition)
   MAP: Poland
 
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
Microsoft Should Just Move to Japan (int'l edition)
Swedish Taxes: You Get What You Pay For--and Then Some (int'l edition)
Impunity for the President? (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
Vodafone Calling (int'l edition)
   TABLE: Vodafone Snapshot
   CHART: Vodafone's Banner Year
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
Meet Mahathir, the Populist (int'l edition)
India's Traffic Jam Just Got a Lot Worse (int'l edition)
   TABLE: Heavy Congestion



 
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