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COVER STORY
Midyear Investment Guide
The easy money is getting less easy, but don't despair. A soft landing looks likely, and there are still opportunities aplenty.
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY
Deal Time at Seagram (int'l edition)
TABLE: Seagram's New Mix
Tapping into a Gold Mine at Seagram? (int'l edition)
TABLE: Vivendi's Expanding Empire
UP FRONT
Talk Show
The Case of the Purloined Web Sites
Out, Out, Damn Fractions
Prime Time for Nonunion Talent
TABLE: A Flood of Capital
Cyber-MBAs from a Name You Know
Chicago: Hands Off That Cell Phone!
Chow Down at the Robo-Grill
CHART: Vehicles of a Certain Age
Footnotes
READERS REPORT
Some Cures for Sick Buildings
Will Other Companies Adopt 3M's High Standards?
Paying Artists for Music on the Net
Daimler and Chrysler: You Saw the Crash Coming
Please Don't Call Us ''Grease Monkeys''
Free Trade Has Its Share of Hypocrisy, Too
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
''3M's big cleanup'' (Environment, June 5, 2000)
BOOKS
Bring Back the Quilting Bee
PHOTO: Cover, ''Bowling Alone''
INDUSTRY INSIDER
Grainger: Junk That Catalog and Get on the Web
CHART: Sideways Slide: W.W. Grainger Inc.
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
Smart Sites Built by Nongeeks
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
Social Security Is Working Just Fine, Thank You
ECONOMIC TRENDS
Social Security Is More Secure
CHART: America's Largest Antipoverty Program
Japan's Sluggish Job Engine
CHART: Some Hire, and Some Fire
Pollyanna Projections
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S: The Fed Likes the Cooler Data, but So Does Wall Street
CHART: Inflation Remains Under Control
CHART: Consumers Take a Breather
CHART: Gas Prices Begin to Soar Again
Australia: There's No Slowdown Down Under--Yet
CHART: Economic Growth Remains Too Hot
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
The Great Antitrust Debate
TABLE: Hurdles for the New Antitrust
Will the Appeal Hold Water?
Commentary: Lessons from the Web--A World without Monopolies
Microsoft's Killer Apps
TABLE: Microsoft Unchained
MP3s: If You Can't Lick 'em, License 'em
TABLE: Taming the Web
Commentary: Warm and Fuzzy Won't Save Procter & Gamble
CHART: P&G's Tumble
Gore: Two Chickens in Every Pot?
Commentary: Privacy: Don't Ask Technology to Do the Job
TABLE: A User's Guide to P3P
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
Edward Whitacre Jr.: Showing Muscle in Long Distance
Chasing the Mob Down the Street
Time Warner-EMI: Perfect Harmony?
Fessing Up to Funny Numbers
eBay's Bid for Fixed Prices
A Network with a Faltering Net
Et Cetera...
Soft Hardware
CHART: Hewlett Packard Stock Price
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
Why Bush Is Climbing Aboard McCain's Straight Talk Express
Bush Adviser vs. Privacy
Slow-Walking on China
Unemployment Fund Fight
THE BEST OF BUSINESS WEEK ONLINE
Sounding the Alarm in Mexico
The Man behind All Those E-Ads
None of Your Business
PHOTO ESSAY
Harvard Business School: The Class of 2000
PEOPLE
An E-Tailer's Labor Pains
RESUME: Laurie McCartney
ONLINE ORIGINAL: "I'm Always Asking: 'Is It Working?'"
THE CORPORATION
Millionaire Buys Disney Time
TABLE: Patching Up Disney's Big, Big World
MARKETING
The Great Portal Purge
TABLE: Portal Predicament
GOVERNMENT
Hoffa at Halftime
Hoffa: On Free Trade, Election 2000, and Winning (extended)
Where This Election Will Be Won
GRAPHIC: Will the Rust Belt Rule?
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Hope Is Where the Heart Is
GRAPHIC: Pump It Up
Existing Devices
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
You've Got Mail--20,000 Leagues under the Sea
How Geckos Stick Like Glue--without Goo
Hands-on Exams of Faraway Patients
Innovations
INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
The Web of Quality
GE: Zero to 60, No Skid Marks
CHART: Spinning Up Quality at GE
Mexico Goes Top-Flight
TABLE: Mexico's March to Quality
PHOTO: Elamex Employees Only Look Old Style
SOCIAL ISSUES
Commentary: When Nonprofits Go After Profits
TABLE: Getting Down to Business
SPORTS BUSINESS
Bronx Cheers in Montreal
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Can Rich McGinn Revive Lucent?
TABLE: Why Lucent Is Struggling
CHART: Lucent Stock Takes a Hit
''Good Old-Fashioned Straight Talk'' from the New CFO
Can SAP Swim with the Swiftest?
TABLE: How SAP Lags behind the Leaders
CHART: i2 Technologies Stock Price
TABLE: What's Sapping SAP
Sun Takes Another Shot at Storage
CHART: The Storage Market Is Growing Fast...But Sun Is Far Behind
Commentary: This Tax Could Tangle the Global Net
BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR
Finally, Credit Where Credit Is Due
TABLE: Lending to Women in Business
BW INVESTOR -- THE BARKER PORTFOLIO
Fans of Handspring May Flip for Its IPO
TABLE: Handspring's Big Winners
PHOTO: Handspring's Rainbow Array of Visor PDAs
BW INVESTOR -- INSIDE WALL STREET
Texaco and Shell?
CHART: Bubbling Up
Why Chiron May Be on the Mend
CHART: Ready for a Pick-Me-Up
Talk to Your Car? It's General Magic
CHART: Another Pounded Tech Stock
FIGURES OF THE WEEK
Figures of the Week (.pdf)
Production Index Components
HISTORICAL DATA: BW Index Back to 1992
EDITORIALS
By Bringing Microsoft to Heel...
...Antitrust Is Breaking New Ground
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON FRANCE
The Moulin Rouge Goes Disney...As High Tech Drives Up Rents (int'l edition)
MAP: France
INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM MEXICO
Will Young Rockers Really Rock the Boat? (int'l edition)
MAP: Mexico
PHOTO: Mexican Rock Band Molotov
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
The Chinese Won't Give Up Piracy Anytime Soon (int'l edition)
The Third World Wants Knowhow, Not Handouts (int'l edition)
When Daimler Met Chrysler (int'l edition)
Why Should the Judge Care Whether Microsoft Survives? (int'l edition)
Investors Keep the Faith in Vimpelcom (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
"The Stars of Europe" (European Edition Cover Story, June 12, 2000) (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
India Is Ready for Takeoff (int'l edition)
TABLE: The Two Faces of India
Commentary: Sorry, Japan. High Tech Is No Magic Wand (int'l edition)
Investors Won't Exactly Be Rushing to Pyongyang (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
German Carmakers: Great Wheels, No Traction (int'l edition)
TABLE: Germany's Skidding Auto Market
The High End Heats Up (int'l edition)
A Mighty Fortress Is My Tax Haven (int'l edition)
TABLE: Liechtenstein: Little but Luxe
What Did Putin Know, and When Did He Know It? (int'l edition)
Is Your Flight Late? Have a Massage (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICA
New Tricks for an Old Chilean Store (int'l edition)
TABLE: A Recipe for Growth
Twilight of a Latin Mogul? (int'l edition)
RESUME: Benjamin Steinbruch (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
Will a New Generation Get the Arab World Moving? (int'l edition)
Mexican Peso Jitters (int'l edition)
A Suharto Payback? (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Can SAP Swim with the Swiftest? (int'l edition)
TABLE: How SAP Lags behind the Leaders
CHART: i2 Technologies Stock Price
TABLE: What's Sapping SAP
INTERNATIONAL -- BUSINESSWEEK LIFESTYLE
The Ripening of the Wireless Web (int'l edition)
TABLE: Europe's Mobile Madness
Wireless Web, Euro-style (int'l edition)
TABLE: What You Can Do on Your Web Phone
Phoneless in America? (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK
International Figures of the Week (.pdf) (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
France, Take Down the Barricades (int'l edition)
ARTICLES PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS
JUNE 19, 2000
This Yanqui Raider Wouldn't Go Home
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