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Mar. 1, 1999
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ENTERPRISE -- IN BOX
The Trouble with Homemade Checks
CHART: Counterfeits Cause a Disproportionate Share of Bad Check Losses at Banks
Patently Useful
Mom Knows Best
TABLE: What Price Sales?
Outsourced vs. In-House
TABLE: Why Not?
Enterprise Online
TABLE: Who Buys the Most Bytes
Footnotes
ENTERPRISE -- STARTUPS
This Generation Is All Business
TABLE: Youthful Influences
ENTERPRISE -- MARKETING
Schmooze Control
TABLE: Meeting the Right Folks
ENTERPRISE -- COMPANIES
Clean, Sober, and Good for Business
TABLE: Recovery Zone
ENTERPRISE -- MANAGEMENT
A Checkup for Your Health Plan
TABLE: Weighing a Plan
ENTERPRISE -- THE ENTREPRENEUR'S LIFE
A Perfect Blendship
ENTERPRISE -- UNDER 30
Success Is Sweets
UP FRONT
Talk Show
A Scalping for Headhunters
TABLE: Nice Start, But...
This Telco Lobby Takes Stock
Where Life Is Cheap
TABLE: The Top Five and the Bottom Five
Colleges Flunk in Pay Equity
I Am, Therefore I Spend
A Mountain Grows in Orlando
Why Your Workers Might Jump Ship
TABLE: Who Wants to Quit in 12 Months
CHART: The Lure of Foreign Goods
Footnotes
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
What's the Most Promising Emerging Market? Japan
ECONOMIC TRENDS
No Fire Sale on Boomer Assets
CHART: The Elderly Don't Cash in
Friend of Bull and Bear
More People in Peoria
GRAPHIC: Big Rebounds
Tips to Pick the Best Employee
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: The Bond Market Is Feeling the Heat
CHART: Bond Yields Are Edging Up
CHART: January Didn't Chill Homebuilding
CHART: Stockpiles Looked Lean Heading into 1999
Canada: A Windfall Up North
CHART: The Canadian Looney Is Flying Higher
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
Michael Dell: A Deluge for Dell
A Net That Keeps on Expanding
Cholestin Is No Drug, Says a Judge
A Fresh Tributary for Delta
Cracking Down on Overseas Bribes
Livent's Gotterdammerung
Et Cetera...
AmEx Annex
CHART: American Express Stock Price
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
A Long, Dark Night for the Religious Right
Internet Taxes
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
Manufacturing Warheads against Malaria
A Really Instant Replay
PHOTO: The Scanz Scannor
Time to Belly Up to Those Virtual Beer-Bar Ads
Innovations
Developments to Watch Contacts