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Jan. 17, 2000




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COVER STORY
Martha Inc.
   COVER IMAGE: Martha Inc.
   CHART: Martha Stewart Inc...
   CHART: ...Rakes in Big Sales Gains...But Spending Curbs Profits
   TABLE: Martha's World
   TABLE: Mini Marthas
   A Picture-Perfect Target
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: How Margaret Roach Makes Martha's Garden Grow
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: Investors Aren't So Sure about Stewart's Style
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY
Amazing DoCoMo (int'l edition)
   ASIAN COVER IMAGE: DoCoMo
   TABLE: Why Japanese Are Mad for i-mode
   PHOTO: DoCoMo's i-mode Phone
   CHART: DoCoMo's Unearthly Flight...And a Share Price to Match
   Staking a Claim in Japan's Net Gold Rush (int'l edition)
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: What's It All About: An i-mode Primer (int'l edition)
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: DoCoMo's Keichi Tachikawa on i-mode and Beyond (int'l edition)
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: ''It Could Obviate the Need for Cable'' (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY
Putin's Russia (int'l edition)
   EUROPEAN COVER IMAGE: Putin's Russia
   TABLE: The Acting President's Agenda
   CHART: The Volatile Russian Economy
   Commentary: How Yeltsin Blew Russia's Big Chance (int'l edition)
 
UP FRONT
Talk Show
One Heads-Up Headhunter
Mousepad Not Included
Be Very, Very Nice to Larry
Do You Rank As a ''Full E-Business''?
Give Me Reform, or Give Me Jail
A Picture's Worth a Thousand Lemons
TABLE: The Top Technological Blunders of the (Just Past) Century
Footnotes
 
READERS REPORT
Tips for Xtreme Retailers: Fix the Basics First
What Kids Want More Than a New Car
Begging to Differ with a Book's Review
The Airbus Deal Earned Profits without Subsidies
Idaho Farmers Aren't Through with the WTO
Seattle: A Push for Old Ideals, or New Ignorance?
The Link Between Democracy and Wages
Let's Not Panic over Genetically Altered Foods
A Dynamo Called California
Software Will Improve When Consumers Get Mad
 
BOOKS
The Great Leap West of the Iron Horse
   PHOTO: Cover, ''Empire Express''
 
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
Age of the E-Pliance?
   TABLE: i-opener Vital Statistics
   PHOTO: Netpliance i-opener
 
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
One Pinochet Legacy That Deserves to Live
 
ECONOMIC TRENDS
The Fed's Y2K Hangover
   CHART: A Dramatic Surge in the Money Supply
Hazardous to Your Career
Employers Tame Medical Costs
   CHART: Who's Footing Medical Bills
 
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: What's Worrying Wall Street: Tighter Money
   CHART: Industrial Activity Is Picking Up
   CHART: Sales Keep Outpacing Inventories
   CHART: It's Taking Longer to Fill Orders
Sweden: So Far, a Hot Winter in Sweden, Too
   CHART: Output Is Growing at a Healthy Pace
 
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
Rates Start to Bite
   TABLE: Will the Small- and Mid-Cap Revival Be Killed?
   CHART: High Interest Rates...Finally Hit the S&P 500...and Slam the Nasdaq
   A Faulty Indicator, A Skewed Forecast?
Commentary: The Y2K Bug Repellent Wasn't a Waste
B2B: The Hottest Net Bet Yet?
   TABLE: E-Commerce Reduces the Cost of Doing Business
The Dot.coms Falling to Earth
   How Egghead Bounced Back
   Commentary: No Net Taxes: A Break for the Well-Off
SUVs: Downsizing Those Monster Machines
   TABLE: Smaller, Less Thirsty
The Soul of a New Refrigerator
 
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
Steve Jobs: Apple's Core Employee
In the Mail: GM Car Coupons
Sayonara to the Net's ''Tokyo Joe''?
Customizing Compaq
Techies Get Their Own News Radio
A Cable Reprise for US West
Et Cetera...
Fox Knocks Cox
   CHART: Cox Communications Stock Price
 
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
Tax Cuts: Will Clinton Snooker the GOP--or Burn the Dems?
Fast and Slow at the Fed
Waxman's Challenge
 
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Can Mannesmann Wriggle Away?
   CHART: Mannesmann's Wild Ride
   TABLE: From Steelmaker to Telecom Dynamo
Adios, Argentina--Hello, Brazil
   TABLE: Corporate Exodus
 
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
A Taiwan Candidate Has Beijing Baring Its Teeth
The Wal-Mart Effect
A Mexican Media Sale
 
THE CORPORATION
Univision Peers into Cyberspace
   CHART: Univision Leads the Pack in Building Audience...And Churns Out Stellar Earnings
 
GOVERNMENT
Click Here to Pay Your Parking Ticket
   TABLE: Some Services Now Online
Commentary: Corporate Welfare: The Sound Bite and the Fury
 
FINANCE
Nasdaq's Spin-Off: Not Far Enough?
A Bad Case of Venture-Capital Envy
Commentary: South Korea: A Boom--or a ''Ticking Bomb''?
 
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
G'day? Not with the Aussie Flu Bug
''Seeds'' to Attack Prostate Cancer
Shedding Light on Solar Power
Innovations
Developments to Watch Contacts
 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Portal Combat
   TABLE: Targeting Asia
 
ENTERTAINMENT
Trouble in Cinema Paradiso
   CHART: The Number of Screens Is Rising...But Attendance Per Screen Is Falling
 
MEDIA
Weaving Yet Another Web for Women
   TABLE: Where Women Surf
 
BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR
Dealing with Risk
   TABLE: Risk Terms
   Is Your Comfort Level Too High?
      CHART: The Bull-Market Generation
      CHART: Margin Debt Is Soaring
   How Much Volatility Can Cost You
   The Nitty-Gritty: How to Do the Math
      TABLE: Where to Find Risk Measures for Funds
      TABLE: Returns and Risk for 1999's Top 10 Mutual Funds
 
BW INVESTOR -- THE BARKER PORTFOLIO
The Ether Keeping Amazon Aloft
   TABLE: How the Figures Stack Up
 
BW INVESTOR -- INSIDE WALL STREET
Hurtling True North
   CHART: A Relentless Climb
For Maxtor, a Nice Niche in Servers?
   CHART: It Hasn't Exactly Caught Fire Yet
Net Newbie @plan: Still Undiscovered
   CHART: Languishing after the IPO
 
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
Don't Take Economic Growth for Granted
A High-Tech Surprise from Japan
 
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON IRAN
As Women Doff Their Black Scarves...Ties Are Making a Statement, Too (int'l edition)
   MAP: Iran
 
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
What About the Astonishing Greek Market? (int'l edition)
Economic ''Mixed Systems'' Usually Get It Wrong (int'l edition)
Free Trade Should Be a Two-Way Street (int'l edition)
The WTO: Focus on Folks Left Out of the Loop (int'l edition)
To Prosper, Europe Needs a Truly Open Economy (int'l edition)
Kudos for a Fedwatcher's Forecasting Model (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
''Offshore Fund Scoreboard'' (Special Report, Nov. 8, 1999) (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
Tuning Up a Chinese Clunker (int'l edition)
   TABLE: An Auto Maker's Survival Strategy
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
Can Mannesmann Wriggle Away? (int'l edition)
   CHART: Mannesmann's Wild Ride
   TABLE: From Steelmaker to Telecom Dynamo
   ''There Is Nothing We Could Not Do Better Together'' (int'l edition)
Commentary: Kohl's Shame Could Be His Party's Salvation (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICAN BUSINESS
Adios, Argentina (int'l edition)
   TABLE: Corporate Exodus
 
INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
A Central Bank Hanging by a Thread (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK
International Figures of the Week (int'l edition)
   Country Focus/Hungary (int'l edition)
      CHART: Industrial Production
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
On the Top of Putin's Agenda (int'l edition)



 
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