Cover Photograph by Christopher Gould. INTERNATIONAL Cover Photograph by Lisa Quinones.
Sept. 20, 1999
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UP FRONT
Talk Show
Keeping the Home Fires Burning
That Tidal Wave of Compassion
A Saucy Little Company Hits It Big
TABLE: Who Brings Home the Sheepskin?
The FCC Trains Its Cannons on Pirates
Big Stink over a Fishing Subsidy
Schools Get inside Jocks' Heads
CHART: SUVs Are Losing Traction
Footnotes
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
A Massive Tax Cut: A Leap of Faith We Can't Afford
ECONOMIC TRENDS
The Hot New U.S. Labor Market
CHART: Fewer Young Faces in Job Markets
Getting a GED: Who Benefits?
Retail's Wage-Price Squeeze
CHART: Crosscurrents at the Mall?
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: Don't Bet the Farm on Recent Jobs Data
CHART: This Year's Ups and Downs in Job Growth
CHART: Auto Sales Are Still Booming
CHART: Labor Costs Are Up, But So Is Efficiency
Canada: All Eyes Are on the Fed's Next Move
CHART: The Upward Pressure on Canadian Rates
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
Philip Marineau: Taking the Levi's Challenge
The SEC Whacks Van Kampen
Yahoo! Is Signing Up Net Bill-Payers
Software Makers Go Undersea
Hilton's Buy Brings Only Yawns
A Big Bank Writes a Big Check
Et Cetera...
Commodity Prices: Natural Highs
CHART: Goldman Sachs Commodity Index
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
Campaign-Finance Reform: This Time, the Finish Line?
The Goldman Connection?
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
A Wider Mideast Peace May No Longer Be a Dream
Green Light for Prodi
Costly Vitamins
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Commentary: Drug Safety Needs a Second Opinion
TABLE: Short-Term Evidence vs. Proven Benefits
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
Reading What's Written on the Wind
In Sheep's Clothing, a Balm for Lung Disease
Bending Light with a New Breed of Fiber Optics
Is the Sea Now a Giant Petri Dish?
Developments to Watch Contacts
WORKING LIFE
White House Wannabes: Wooing Minivan Moms
TABLE: Families to the Pols: Help!
TABLE: Promises, Promises
Commentary: 9 to 5 Isn't Working Anymore
TABLE: Struggling to Balance Work and Family
THE CORPORATION
Fixing Rubbermaid Is No Snap
CHART: As Newell's Problems Mount...
FINANCE
Dirty Money Goes Digital
TABLE: How to Wash a Million Dollars
CHART: The Trillion-Dollar Clearinghouse
A Money Laundering Primer
What Money Laundering? (int'l edition)
Anatomy of a Mutual-Fund Steal
TABLE: RS's Returns Rebound
Big Cards on Campus
TABLE: The Plastic Invasion
The Haunting of Bank Bali
TABLE: The Deepening Debacle at Bank Bali
BITS & BYTES
A Wee Keyboard for Smaller Hands
''Aw, Jeez. Mom Found Out About My Homework Online''
This Pager Lets You Sneak out of the Office
Is Web Banking a Bust?
TABLE: Not Cashing In
Bits & Bytes Contacts
FIGURES OF THE WEEK
Figures of the Week
CHART: Production Index
Production Index Components
HISTORICAL DATA: BW Index Back to 1992
CHART: S&P 500
CHART: Mutual Funds
The Week Ahead
EDITORIALS
Flexibility: The Answer to Burnout
Banks Should Come Clean on Laundering