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May 29, 2000




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COVER STORY
Hot Growth Companies
   TABLE: The Revenge of Brick and Mortar
   WWF: One Rock-'Em, Sock-'Em Company
   Direct Focus: Flexing Its Marketing Muscle
   Meade Instruments: Back from a Black Hole
   Diamond Technology: Attack of the Killer Apps
   Children's Place: Hey, Good-Looking
   Albany Molecular Research: All R&D, All the Time
   SERENA Software: Keeping All Systems Go
   U.S. Concrete: Breaking the Cement Mold
   What Happened to the Class of '98?
      TABLE: The 1998 Winners...and the Losers
   TABLE: Hot Growth Companies, 2000 (.pdf)
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: Somera: Top-Notch Profits from Old Tech Gear
 
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L COVER STORY
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   TABLE: The Artists
   TABLE: The Labels
      CHART: Although Music Is a Slow-Growth Business...
   TABLE: Radio
      CHART: For Now, Web Rivals Shouldn't Slow Radio
   TABLE: The Retailers
      CHART: Retail: Still King but for How Long?
   TABLE: The Consumer
   TABLE: The Web
   The Digital Revolution Will Not Be Criminalized (int'l edition)
   These Wristbands Will Keep You Humming (int'l edition)
 
UP FRONT
Talk Show
Insider Trading in Chunnel Stock?
A Big-Box Strategy for the Big Store
TABLE: Boardroom Basics
Columbia: Trying to Win in Overtime
A Wrench in the Airline Works
Sex and the Glass Ceiling
Net-Surfing for Fun and Credits
CHART: Business' Big Shopping List
Footnotes
 
READERS REPORT
Which Is the Real McCoy?
Every Time the Phone Rings, It Goes ''Ka-Ching''
A Penny Saved Is Still a Penny Earned
Value America's Winn-Lose Experience
Mobile Fuel Cells Have a Way to Go
Internet Training Works for SAP
Zapme! Keeps Its Data to Itself--More or Less
For $10 Billion, You Can Buy a Lot of Water
Thanks to the World Bank, a Better World
The Fed's Y2K Strategy Was a Wash
 
BOOKS
The Czar of Chicago
   PHOTO: Cover, ''American Pharaoh''
 
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
Wireless Gets Easier and Faster
   TABLE: The Web to Go
   PHOTO: Novatel Modem with Palm V and Blackberry RIM 957
The Slick New Laptop from Acer
   PHOTO: Acer's TravelMate 600
Apple's Powerbooks Go Wireless
Dell's Featherweight Notebook
 
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
Don't Look Now, but a New Japan Is Taking Shape
 
ECONOMIC TRENDS
Microsoft's Other Judges
   CHART: Trustbusters vs. Microsoft: the Market's Reaction
It's Safer Now to Be a Kid
Why Is Hard-Hat Pay Falling?
   CHART: Wage Erosion at Building Sites
 
INDUSTRY INSIDER
Diversity Isn't Always the Key
   CHART: Dow Chemical's Ups and Downs
 
INDUSTRY MONITOR
GPS: Now It's Really Precise
One Site Fits All
   TABLE: AMR Research's Top Exchanges
Factories Get a Lot Smarter
Innovations
 
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: Why the Fed Will Keep Tightening the Screws
   CHART: The Markets Are Doing Some of the Fed's Job
   CHART: Demand Is Pushing Up Operating Rates
   CHART: Thin Stockpiles Are Getting Thinner
Canada: Another Economy on a Tear
   CHART: Core Inflation Is Still on Target
 
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
Caught with Their Chips Down
   TABLE: What's behind the Parts Drought?
Telefonica's Bid to Be a Cyberstar
   TABLE: A New Internet Giant?
Commentary: Pressure at the Pump May Be Here to Stay
   CHART: Oil Heads North--Again
Xerox: Rick Thoman Speaks Up for Himself
   CHART: Thoman's Tenure
Will AOL Power Up Enron?
   CHART: More Can Switch
Commentary: Ford Finds It Isn't Easy Going Green Alone
Chain Stores Land in the Bargain Bin
   TABLE: Brands for Sale
Commentary: Coke: Say Good-Bye to the Good Ol' Boy Culture
 
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
Robert Eckert: Babe in Toyland
Good for What Ails Hewlett-Packard
IMF to East Asia: Oops!
Simmering Woes at Campbell's
AOL Gets a Rap on the Knuckles
Loaded for Bear Stearns?
Et Cetera...
Coke Hit
   CHART: Coca-Cola Enterprises Stock Price
 
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
A Prescription Drug Benefit: So Popular, So Elusive
McCain Plays Hardball
New Economy Democrats
Guns and Money
 
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
A Whole New Tech Ride
   CHART: Europe High Tech: Some Stocks Stay Strong...While Others Are Losing Altitude
The Hazards for President Chen Aren't Just across the Straits
   TABLE: Cleaning Up Taiwan Inc.
Commentary: Finally, Japan Inc. Is Getting Serious
   CHART: Out of the Abyss
Indonesia's Wahid: ''We Are Beginning the Rule of Law''
 
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
Russia: Can Putin Squash Dissent and Free the Economy?
Blair Disappoints Clinton
Banking on Poland
 
GOVERNMENT
China Trade: Will Clinton Pull It Off?
   TABLE: A Long March for Beijing
   TABLE: Division Street
How George W. Bush Would Steer the Economy (extended)
Why Business Is Holding Its Fire
   TABLE: Will Things Go Better with George?
 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Interactive TV: Turn On, Tune In, Interact
   TABLE: You've Got Interactive TV
   TABLE: Eyeballing AOLTV's Rivals
Novell Bets the Farm
   CHART: Novell's School of Hard Knocks
 
MARKETING
The Mark of Zara
   TABLE: Cheap Chic
 
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Silicon Chameleon Transmeta Challenges Intel
   TABLE: Where Transmeta Shows Potential
   PHOTO: Transmeta's Crusoe Chip
   GRAPHIC: Take-Charge Technology
 
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
To Catch a Fiber-Optic Spy, Look at a Single Photon
Want to Quit Cigarettes? Gargle This
Mapping the Hidden Parts of the Heavens
Innovations
 
PEOPLE
Teen Internet Moguls
   RESUME: Michael Furdyk
   RESUME: Cameron Johnson
   RESUME: Brad Ogden
   RESUME: Angelo Sotira
   RESUME: Paul Dinin
   RESUME: Rishi Bhat
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: Microsoft Puts Teens under the Microscope
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: Girl Geeks Start to Breach the Wired World
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: From High-Tech Hobby to Big Bucks
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: Changing the Image of the Inventor
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: The Legal Pitfalls of Doing Business with Teens
 
ECONOMICS
The Great Market Bubble Debate
   CHART: Is the Market Overvalued?
Commentary: Is ''Irrational'' Exuberance Perfectly Rational?
Is the Fed Fighting a Phantom Menace?
   TABLE: Cracked Crystal Balls?
 
FINANCE
Grand Prix's Big Mo
   TABLE: Outpacing the Competition
Brick Houses Are Sturdy After All
   TABLE: Bricks and Mortar Strike Back
Commentary: Dreyfus Deserves More Than a Slap on the Wrist
Hong Kong's New Bourse Knows How to Bend Rules
 
INDUSTRIES
And the Checkered Flag Goes to--Korea
   CHART: Booming Korean Car Imports
 
INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
You Order It, They'll Make It
   CHART: Contract Manufacturing: A New Growth Industry
   A Lesson in Outsourcing, Start to Finish
   ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A with Celestica's Eugene Polistuk: Everybody's Outsourcing--or Planning to
 
SOCIAL ISSUES
Swollen Charities: Should They Give More?
   CHART: Piles of Cash
 
SPORTS BUSINESS
And You Thought You Were Busy
 
MANAGEMENT
The Gary Cooper of Governance
   TABLE: Shapiro's Tough Standards
 
BUSINESSWEEK LIFESTYLE
A Grand Tour on the Cheap
   TABLE: To Escape the Masses...
   CHART: The Euro's Slide
 
BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR
The Euro May Be Tarnished, but European Funds Shine
   TABLE: Playing Europe's Recovery
   Why Europe Expects ''Remarkable Growth''
Getting Your Fair Share in a Divorce
   TABLE: Be Your Own Sherlock Holmes
 
BW INVESTOR -- THE BARKER PORTFOLIO
Jim Callinan Finds It's Lonely at the Top
   CHART: Roller-Coaster Ride
 
BW INVESTOR -- INSIDE WALL STREET
A Sitting Dot-Com?
   CHART: It Took a Tumble
This Gizmo Could Charge Up Comarco
   CHART: Low on Juice
A Fresh Take on Tupperware
   CHART: Looking Wilted
 
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
   CHART: BW 50
The Week Ahead
 
EDITORIALS
The New Economy's Speed Limit
Labor Should Drop Its Hypocrisy on China
 
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON DENMARK
A New Bridge Joins Two Nations...But Will They Embrace the Euro? (int'l edition)
   MAP: Northern Europe
 
INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM VENEZUELA
A Tale of Pain and Hope on Lake Maracaibo (int'l edition)
   MAP: Venezuela
 
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
Can China's Interior Wait So Long? (int'l edition)
Microsoft's Foes Are Fighting Yesterday's Battle (int'l edition)
Mobile Fuel Cells Have Far to Go (int'l edition)
College in America: A Ticket to a Green Card? (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
The Hazards for President Chen Aren't Just across the Straits (int'l edition)
   TABLE: Chen's Daunting Agenda for Taiwan Inc.
Indonesia's Wahid: ''We Are Beginning the Rule of Law'' (int'l edition)
Making Star TV Shine (int'l edition)
   TABLE: A Scion's Asian Hurdles
 
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
Commentary: Ford: A Comeback in Europe Is Job One (int'l edition)
   PHOTO: Ford Focus
 
INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICA
The Penny-Pinching in Argentina Won't Stop Anytime Soon (int'l edition)
   CHART: Slow Recovery
Commentary: Taking the Green out of NAFTA (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
China: Hey, Wanna Buy Some Used Mortgages? (int'l edition)
   CHART: Home Loans Are Booming in China
Bond Bummer in the Euro Zone? (int'l edition)
 
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK
International Figures of the Week (int'l edition)
   Country Focus/Euro Zone (int'l edition)
      CHART: Euro Zone Inflation
 

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