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COVER STORY
Selling the Tax Cut New Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill must put the right spin on Bushonomics and deal with an ailing economy
COVER IMAGE: Selling the Tax Cut
TABLE: O'Neill's Teammates
TABLE: Five Treasury Secretaries Who Mattered
TABLE: The Real O'Neill
How O'Neill Got Alcoa Shining
Straight Talk from the New Mr. Money
ASIAN COVER STORY
Not a Moment Too Soon (int'l edition) Can Gloria Arroyo clean up Estrada's mess
COVER IMAGE: Manila's Great Hope
CHART: Estrada's Legacy: A Ruined Currency
CHART: The Philippines' Dysfunctional Economy
ONLINE EXTRA: Jaime Ayala: "Things Could Move Very Fast"
EUROPEAN COVER STORY
Europe's Big Test (int'l edition) Can its leaders continue pushing reform to keep growth on track?
COVER IMAGE: Europe's Big Test
CHART: What's Helping Europe
CHART: What's Hurting Europe
Continental Lift (int'l edition)
TABLE: The Honchos Hold Forth
FRONTIER
Frontier
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UP FRONT
Talk Show
Boeing Jettisons a Plant
As Suppliers Balk, Chrysler Blinks
Baby Lincoln: A Gleam in Ford's Eye
TABLE: Eureka!
Suddenly, E-Cool Isn't Cool At All
Passengers to Airline: Butt Out
No Day at the Beach for the Boss
CHART: Finances Online? Not Yet
Footnotes
READERS REPORT
Yes, Bob Pittman Is a Pilot
An Interest-Rate Cut Can't Compare with a Tax Credit
A Republican Divide over Fiscal Policy
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
''Sometimes, Less Is Less'' (Technology & You, Jan. 15, 2001)
''The Ins and Outs of Cash Flow'' (BusinessWeek Investor, Jan. 22, 2001)
BOOKS
Bringing Big Tobacco Down to Size
PHOTO: Cover, ''A Question of Intent''
The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
Online Software Finally Gets Useful
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
Who Killed the Economic Boom? A Slew of Suspects
ECONOMIC TRENDS
Is the Budget Surplus at Risk?
CHART: Lower Capital Gains Will Hurt the Tax Take
Money Can't Buy a Loyal CEO
Education Hasn't Lost Its Luster
CHART: Sheepskins in Demand
INDUSTRY INSIDER
How to Fill Thankless Jobs in a Tight Labor Market
CHART: Adding Up ServiceMaster
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: Bush May Not Be Stepping into Quicksand
CHART: Consumers' Attitudes Take a Sudden Turn
CHART: Refi Madness Strikes Again
CHART: Housing Begins to Show Some Cracks
Brazil: A Helping Hand Fires Up Growth
CHART: Lower Rates Will Bolster Growth
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
Commentary: The New Economy's Cruel Math
CHART: The Labor Market Cools
Profits: Suddenly, the Downpour
TABLE: Fourth-Quarter Flash Profits Survey
A Goodwill Gesture from FASB
TABLE: Earnings Lift
Commentary: California: All Sides Must Take a Hit
TABLE: A Spreading Contagion?
Are High-Tech Stocks Headed for More Turmoil?
CHART: The Rise and Fall of Tech P-Es
Commentary: HDTV: Don't Blame the FCC for Tuning Out
Will Business Yahoo! Too?
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
James Kilts: On Razor's Edge
Mack Makes an Exit at Morgan Stanley
Lowering the Lights at Loews
All Smiles Again at Warnaco
Chalk One Up for Sun
Converse: Down at the Heels
Et Cetera...
Store This
CHART: EMC Stock Price
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
Why Bush's School Reforms Might Actually Pass
Bush's Pork Parley
Power Struggle
Laboring for Trade
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
For Mexico's Fox, Will Haste Make Waste?
CHART: Chill Winds from the North
A Talk with North America's Other New President
As the U.S. Slips, So Slips Mexico? (int'l edition)
Commentary: In This Trade Spat, the Chinese Are Right
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Commentary: AIDS Cocktails: Better Later Than Sooner?
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
Drug Safety: What Studies Don't Report
Spider Spit Can Do a Shaky Heart Good
Inventors Are, Like, Yucky and Stuff
Turning a Solar Generator into Gamma-Ray Stalker
PHOTO: California's Solar Two Power Station
SPORTS BUSINESS
Ad-Vantage: The Williams Sisters
MUTUAL FUND SCOREBOARD
Can Bond Funds Do It Again?
TABLE: The Bond Fund A-List
TABLE: How the Groups Fared
TABLE: The Largest Funds
TABLE: The Best by Categories
SCOREBOARD: Bond Funds: Mutual Fund Scoreboard (.pdf)
SPECIAL REPORT
Mike Armstrong's Last Stand
CHART: The Trouble at AT&T
TABLE: AT&T: Breakup III
TABLE: Breaking Up Is Easy to Do
CHART: AT&T Stock Price
TABLE: Grading the Chief
Armstrong on the Record
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Crossgain vs. Microsoft: ''Mooning the Giant''
TABLE: Crossgain's Collision in Slow Motion
LEGAL AFFAIRS
The Broad Backlash against E-Tailers
BOOK EXCERPT
The Mind of the C.E.O.
PHOTO: Cover, ''The Mind of the C.E.O.''
INDUSTRY MONITOR
Surf's Up: Turning Waves into Watts
PHOTO: Wavegen's LIMPET 500 Generator
One Tiny Step Forward for Nanomedicine
Searching for the Flaws That Make Silicon Sing
Innovations
THE CORPORATION
A Merger's Bitter Harvest
CHART: Since Its '99 Merger CNH Has Lost Millions...While Giving Away the Farm to Deere
TABLE: Blunders
BUSINESSWEEK LIFESTYLE
Who Says Safety Isn't Sexy?
TABLE: Gearing Up
BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR
The Squawk Box Goes Public
TABLE: Upcoming Webcasts
TABLE: Connecting to Corporate Conference Calls
Shake Some Savings Out of Your Mortgage
CHART: Sliding Rates
Do Top Women Execs = Stronger IPOs?
TABLE: The Female Factor in IPOs
THE BARKER PORTFOLIO
Who Do Mutual-Fund Directors Work For?
CHART: Feeding the Watchdogs
INSIDE WALL STREET
Bausch: Look Closer
CHART: Quick as a Wink, the Value Halved
It May Be Prilosec Time--for Andrx
CHART: The Drop May Be Due to a Lawsuit
Making Phones Ring in Asia
CHART: Reviving after a Lackluster IPO
FIGURES OF THE WEEK
Figures of the Week (.pdf)
The Week Ahead
Production Index Components
EDITORIALS
O'Neill: Playbook for a Problem-Solver
A Golden Chance to Fix the Schools
INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM JAPAN
Japan's X-League Runs with the Ball (int'l edition)
MAP: Japan
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON ECUADOR
As the Galapagos Worry about Oil...The Mainland Is Abloom with Roses (int'l edition)
MAP: Galapagos Islands
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
Slicing Up the Pie Brings Out Bad Behavior (int'l edition)
Maybe a Manager's Place Is in the Kitchen (int'l edition)
Japan Needs a Positive Sign More Than Easy Credit (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
At Long Last, Lawsuits (int'l edition)
CHART: So Sue Me
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
Mad Cow's Economic Slaughter (int'l edition)
TABLE: Tallying Up the Tab
A Money Trail to the Kremlin? (int'l edition)
Commentary: Sure, Protect Copyrights--but Not with a Tax (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
Europe's VC Boom: Well, That Didn't Last Long (int'l edition)
TABLE: Europe's High-Tech Money Gusher
Japan and Korea: A Match Made on the Net (int'l edition)
TABLE: Shopping in Korea
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK
International Figures of the Week (.pdf) (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
Making Good on the Thriller in Manila (int'l edition)
ARTICLES PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS
January 15, 2001
Embraer: The Sky's the Limit
Online Highlights from page 10 of this issue
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Cover Photo by Chris Usher
Asian Cover
By Itsuo Inouye/AP/Wide World
Europen Cover
Illustration by Rafal Olbinski
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ISSUES DATED
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January 22, 2001
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