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COVER STORY
The Tech Slump Slowing growth in tech spending, not shrinkage, is in store. But that will be painful enough -- for the industry and the economy as a whole
COVER IMAGE: The Tech Slump
CHART: Tech Spending Slowdown
TABLE: Angst in the Air
Who May Prosper Despite the Fall
TABLE: Recession-Resistant
Commentary: Tech Leads--Both Up and Down
TABLE: Technology Booms and Busts
Commentary: Greenspan: This Is Your Captain Speaking...
More Bad News for the Naz
CHART: Valuations Remain Sky-High
Asian Electronics: Who Pulled the Plug? (int'l edition)
CHART: Cooling Down
UP FRONT
Talk Show
A Korean Accent for Neon?
A Self-Inflicted Bonus Cut
United May Horn in on FedEx
TABLE: No Scrooges Here
Credit-Card Numbers to Go
Maybe the Euro Isn't a Stumblebum
A Tracker to Help Hunt Headhunters
CHART: Movie Mania
Footnotes
READERS REPORT
Taking the Guesswork Out of Presidential Elections
The Electoral College Is an Anachronism
Protecting the Heartland
The SEC's Victory Is a Hollow One
This Bunny Is Hardly Winding Down
Starwood's Star Isn't Rising That Fast
What Gun Magazines Don't Reveal About Gun Ownership
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
''Can Liberty Media get its groove back?'' (Media, Nov. 27, 2000)
BOOKS
Atrocities in the Amazon?
PHOTO: Cover, ''Darkness in El Dorado''
Present Dangers
PHOTO: Cover, ''6 Nightmares''
Parallel Webs
PHOTO: Cover, ''The Talmud and the Internet''
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
A Browser for Nothing-but-Net Folk
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
The War for Better Quality Is Far from Won
ECONOMIC TRENDS
Bad-News Bears Get Vocal
CHART: What Are the Leading Indicators Saying?
When Directors Have a Big Stake
Changing Jobs During a Boom
CHART: A Decline in Job Seekers
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: Greenspan to the Markets: Stop Worrying So Much
CHART: Manufacturing Enters the Soft Landing Zone
CHART: Where Consumers Are Pulling Back
CHART: Housing Demand Remains Healthy
Australia: Tightening Begins to Bite
CHART: The Reserve Bank Stays on Hold
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
How Bush Would Lead
TABLE: Slim Mandate, Big Headaches: What W Would Have to Do
The Stewards of a Bush Economy?
TABLE: The Cabinet: How Bush Might Reach Out
Commentary: The Search Begins for a Democratic Savior
Pockets of Power in the Senate
TABLE: Centers of Influence
Commentary: What a Bush Foreign Policy Would Look Like
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
Steven Reinemund: Pepsi's New Generation
The EPA May Send GE Up the River
A Sea of Pink at Dun & Bradstreet
FASB Makes a Goodwill Gesture
Life Support for Oxygen Media
Knocking at the Smokehouse Door
Et Cetera...
Mended Net
CHART: Inktomi Stock Price
THE BEST OF BUSINESS WEEK ONLINE
Sculpting Life's Building Blocks
...And All the Price Trimmings
THE CORPORATION
GM's Aztek: Born to Be a Little Too Wild
TABLE: Anatomy of a Compromise
Gap's Widening Gap at the Top
TABLE: Executive Exodus
CHART: Same-Store Sales Sag at Gap...
CHART: ...And Profits Tumble...
CHART: ...While Investors Head for the Exits
SPECIAL REPORT -- THE BEST PRODUCTS OF 2000
The Best Products of 2000
Our Favorite Clicks
Products to Watch
THE WORKPLACE
Commentary: Will the UAW Be Chrysler's Friend in Need?
MARKETING
Talbots Heats Up by Cooling Down
TABLE: Everything Talbots
CHART: Ahead of the Pack
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Getting Tangled in Health Care's Web
TABLE: Is HIPAA's Cure Worse Than the Disease?
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
All the Better to Hear You with, My Dear
Boosting the Case for Beta-Blockers
A Simpler, Faster Way to Test for Mad Cow
Innovations
LEGAL AFFAIRS
Is the FTC Defending Goliath?
TABLE: Food Fight
SOCIAL ISSUES
Corporate Charity: Why It's Slowing
CHART: Corporate Giving Has Grown...But It Hasn't Kept Pace with Profits
ONLINE EXTRA: TABLE: Companies and Causes: The Latest View of "Cause Marketing"
MEDIA
Ad Spending: How Sweet It Was
CHART: U.S. Ad Spending: Headed for a Big Drop
What's a Dot-Com to Do after the Advertisers Bolt?
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
Commentary: MSCI Indexes: It's Time to Redo the Math
TABLE: Rejiggering EAFE
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Microsoft Misfires in China
TABLE: Regrouping in China
A Pileup in Europe for Japan's Carmakers
CHART: Japan's Carmakers Skid in Europe
Just the Yank for Reuters
TABLE: Reuters' Next Boss
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
Can China Tame the Corruption Beast?
Endgame for Milosevic?
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Federated's Fingerhut Fiasco
TABLE: Fingerhut's Avalanche of Errors
Sega vs. Sony: Pow! Biff! Whack!
TABLE: Games People Play
Meet the ''Completely Different EDS''
TABLE: Troubled Times at EDS: Dick Brown's Turnaround Plan
Walmart.com vs. Amazon: This Race Isn't Even Close
GRAPHIC: Click or Miss: Amazon vs. WalMart
PEOPLE
Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
TABLE: 3M: GE Junior
TABLE: As Growth Slows...Profits Are Taking a Hit
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Headhunter
INDUSTRIES
Detroit Hits a Speed Bump
CHART: The Big Three Fall Back
ENTERTAINMENT
How Universal Stole Xmas
CHART: Universal Studios' Brighter Picture
PHOTO ESSAY
Maya Lin's World
BUSINESSWEEK LIFESTYLE
Making Mincemeat out of Unwanted E-mail
TABLE: How to Avoid Getting Spammed
The Dark Side of Soy
TABLE: Best of the Bean
France and Austria: Where to Schuss
TABLE: The Basics
BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR
Where Did My Mutual Fund Go?
TABLE: Traits of Vanishing Funds
TABLE: Warning Signs
Turning Value into a Gold Mine
TABLE: John Schneider: Value Seeker
BW INVESTOR -- THE BARKER PORTFOLIO
Just Who Are the Piggies Here?
CHART: Valuing IBP
BW INVESTOR -- INSIDE WALL STREET
Pummeled Novellus
CHART: When Investors Got Rattled
Constellation's Star May Be Rising
CHART: Mixed Spirits
Intertan Is Firmly Plugged In
CHART: The Stock Is Down--for Now
FIGURES OF THE WEEK
Figures of the Week (.pdf)
Production Index Components
EDITORIALS
How to Deal with the Tech Slump
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON VENEZUELA
A Great Lake Fills with Filth...As Salt Seeps in from the Sea (int'l edition)
MAP: Venezuela
INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM PYONGYANG
A Nation of Famine--and Adulation (int'l edition)
MAP: North Korea
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
The Blame for Italy's Slave Trade Is Misplaced (int'l edition)
A Word of Warning from a Trailblazing Manager (int'l edition)
Barro Needs to Look at the Big Picture (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
Commentary: Why Korea's Crony Capitalists Are Still in Charge (int'l edition)
CHART: Perils of State Control
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
The Battle for Russia's Electricity Giant (int'l edition)
TABLE: The Chubais-Fyodorov Face-off
ONLINE EXTRA: Chubais: "My Position on This Is Very Pragmatic"
Why They're Cool to Kirch (int'l edition)
TABLE: Kirch's Still-Growing Media Empire
The Euro's Godfather Weighs the Continent's Future (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICAN BUSINESS
Commentary: Chile's ''Model Economy'' Needs Some Sprucing Up (int'l edition)
CHART: Chile Slows Down
Pumping Up Petrobras (int'l edition)
CHART: Petrobras Outperforms the Market
INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
UniCredito: An Appetite as Big as Europe (int'l edition)
CHART: Picture of Profitability
RESUME: Alessandro Profumo (int'l edition)
Commentary: Turkey's Meltdown Started at the Top (int'l edition)
This Exchange Lists You, Ready or Not (int'l edition)
TABLE: Shares from the East
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK
International Figures of the Week (.pdf) (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
A Decisive Moment for EU Reform (int'l edition)
ARTICLES PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS
December 11, 2000
The Great Migration
Letter From New Jersey: Sometimes It Takes More Than a Village
The Rothschilds Are on a Roll
Online Highlights from page 10 of this issue
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Cover Illustration by Lou Beach
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