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Feb. 7, 2000
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UP FRONT
Talk Show
The New Geek in Town: GM
Iridium Isn't Space Junk Yet
A Fact Factory for the New Economy
TABLE: IPOs from Hell
The Lawsuit in Mark Cuban's Face
Old Masters on the Payroll
The Rising Cost of Riding Teacups
CHART: Disney Outpaces Inflation
CHART: Working Round the Clock
Footnotes
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
What Really Sabotaged the Seattle Trade Talks
ECONOMIC TRENDS
Where Venture Capital Ventures
TABLE: Leaders of the Pack in Attracting Investment
High-Tech IPOs Rocket On
Japan: Ready for Real Reform?
CHART: U.S. Companies Are Welcome
INDUSTRY INSIDER
The Car That's All Brains, No Beauty
PHOTO: Ford's Design Vice-President, J Mays
PHOTO: Ford's 24-7
PHOTO: The 24-7's Customizable Dashboard
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: Exports Rebound, but Barely Dent the Trade Deficit
CHART: Import Growth Swamps the Pace of Exports
CHART: Consumer Spirits Have Never Been Higher
CHART: Where the Dollar Has Lost Ground
Spain: Waning Worries over Inflation and Trade
CHART: Inflation Is Moving Up
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
A Little Net Music?
CHART: Music Downloads Are Growing Exponentially
Doug Daft Isn't Sugarcoating Things
CHART: As Coke's Volume Growth Has Slowed...Its Profits Have Fizzled...And Its Stock Has Lost Its Bite
Seeing Cracks in the Baby Bells
CHART: Bells Fall Short in DSL
CHART: Baby Bell Blues
Bottom Lines: Not Too Shabby
TABLE: Fourth-Quarter 1999 Flash Profits Scoreboard (.pdf)
TABLE: Fourth-Quarter 1999 Flash Profits Scoreboard (text)
From GM to Cisco in Just Four Decades
TABLE: The Top 25 U.S. Companies by Market Value, 1969-99 (.pdf)
Commentary: P&G's Cold Feet May Have Averted a Misstep
Commentary: Zagging Right: Did Bush Lose More Than He Won?
Changing the Cyber House Rules
Commentary: Super Sunday, Nomadic Owners, and Karl Marx
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
Gail McGovern: Leading Fidelity's Online Charge
Chrysler's Eaton Takes an Off-Ramp
Sprint Hangs Up on Global One
Priceline: Bidding in Many Tongues
Carlos Slim Takes One More Bite
Intuit and AMD Get New Chiefs
Et Cetera...
Magic Kingdom
CHART: Walt Disney Stock Price
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
Suddenly, a Healthy Shot at Health-Care Reform
Home Rules
Digital Summit
Phone Break
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
A Promising Pill for Male Birth Control
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
Yale's Biggest Science Project
But Will They Bring a Little Keg of Brandy?
PHOTO: Sandia National Labs.' Rescue Robots in Action
A Flat TV with No Fat Price Tag
Innovations
Developments to Watch 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
Deficit Reduction vs. Tax Cuts
If You Can't Trust the Auditors...
For-Profit Schools' Public Benefits
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON RUSSIA
Where Damp and Mold Lay Siege...And a Clinic Tends the Casualties (int'l edition)
MAP: Russia
INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM LONDON
Hoist a Few Cabs, Guv? (int'l edition)
MAP: London
INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
New World Financiers, Old World Startups (int'l edition)
TABLE: Getting in on the Action
Finally, a Clean Banking Slate for the Czechs? (int'l edition)
TABLE: Prague's Two Biggest Banks Go on the Block
China's Banks Prepare for Battle (int'l edition)
TABLE: Reforms Push China's Banks to Go Commercial