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• Enron's Power Play The nation's largest energy merchant won't let California's energy crisis stand in its way COVER IMAGE: Power Broker CHART: Enron Taps Volatile Energy Markets...To Dominate Power Sales... TABLE: The Enron Way TABLE: Is There Anything They Can't Trade? Enron's Big Wheel Has a Heavy Tread Derring-Do in the Corner Office RESUME: Jeffrey K. Skilling Commentary: Enron Hasn't Made Many Friends in the Third World (int'l edition) ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A with Enron's Skilling • Fixing Thailand's Debt Mess Desperate Thai companies will stop at almost nothing to thwart foreign intervention COVER IMAGE: Bangkok's Debt Wars CHART: Bad Loans Are Back TABLE: Ferrier Hodgson's Biggest Thai Deals • Sharon's Israel Can a tough guy calm things down? It's a risky bet COVER IMAGE: Sharon's Israel TABLE: The Hard Line TABLE: A Growing Gap Talk Show A Sign of the Times--Is Blank Jack the Job-Killer Strikes Again Don't Give Us Any Crap TABLE: The Stadium Effect Don't Count Pure E-Tailers Out Hey, Hands Off That Sandwich Forecasting out of the Box CHART: The War on Smoking Footnotes A Prized Editor • Quit Bickering and Govern Already • Bush's ''Recession Insurance'' Could Pile Up the Debt • Those Megamergers Don't Help the Customer • Kobe Steel Is Not About to Go Under • Risking the Peace in China • Business Costs and Election Results • Life Insurance and the Net: A Match Not Made in Heaven • Redistricting: A Modest Proposal • Desperately Seeking Sacagawea • "How O'Neill Got Alcoa Shining" (Cover Story, Feb. 5, 2001) • Teething Pains for Bluetooth • Reading Your Way to Comfy Retirement • Birth of a Brand PHOTO: Cover, ''Absolut'' • E-Evangelist PHOTO: Cover, ''Book Business'' • Yes, Raise Military Pay. Just Do It Cleverly • If They Were Wrong in 1990... CHART: How the Numbers Changed • Stocks May Take Another Hit • Why Not a Payroll Tax Cut? • U.S.: Can the New Economy Handle This Stress Test? CHART: Goods Led the Boom -- And Lead the Slowdown CHART: Where Confidence Is Withering CHART: Where Equipment Spending Is Weakest • Britain: A Tricky Rate Cut Is in the Works CHART: The Slowdown Comes Quickly Can Rate Cuts Do the Job? CHART: Ground Zero for Greenspan? Davos after Dark Just How Big Is That Surplus? TABLE: Figuring the Future: Three Scenarios Antitrust: Laying the Tracks a Bit to the Right TABLE: On the Short List Commentary: Delta Will Fly Farther without Excess Baggage CHART: Is Delta Big Enough? Commentary: Outsourcing Alone Won't Save Nokia's Rivals CHART: Nokia Pulls Ahead • Amazon's Go-Go Growth? Gone CHART: Coming Down to Earth Putting the Explorer under the Microscope TABLE: The New Ford Explorer • XFL: Sex! Violence! But Will Folks Keep Watching? TABLE: Fourth and Long Joel Klein: Facing the Music Schwab: Thank God It's Just Friday Chrysler Starts Slicing and Dicing Go.com Is a No-Go for Disney Trent Dilfer's Field of Dreams Back in the Saddle at Gateway Et Cetera... Adobe Crumbles CHART: Adobe Stock Price Global Warming: Why Team Bush Could Generate Some Heat Taunting McCain? Thwarting McCain? • Tokyo's Own Comeback Kid? Germany: For Schroder, It's Reform or Bust Russian Debt Deal? Mexican Help for California Can an Outsider Fix J.C. Penney? TABLE: Questrom's Rescue Plan RESUME: Allen I. Questrom Don't Tell Kohl's There's a Slowdown TABLE: Formula for Success The Mighty Quinn: Fixer in a Fix TABLE: Trail of a Presidential Pardon School Reform: Rethinking America's Lesson Plan TABLE: Looking for Common Ground Morgan Stanley: Life after Mack TABLE: The Story Till Now • Closed-End Funds: Upstaging a Down Market TABLE: A Strong Showing for Closed-End Funds TABLE: Stocks and Bonds at a Discount A Nice Little Place in the Sun TABLE: Mr. Closed-End Fund • The Wind Shifts for Microsoft TABLE: The New Lineup • Spotting Disease before It Arrives TABLE: Studying Genes to Predict Trouble Nature's Vacuum: A Fern That Sucks Up Arsenic Bad News for Teeth Grinders Biofilms: Getting a Grip on Slime Innovations • Handhelds That Do It All TABLE: Put a Phone in Your Pocket PDA • Cutting All the Cords TABLE: Wireless Wonders • Catching Up to Dick Tracy • Burn, Baby, Burn: CDs, That Is TABLE: Do-It-Yourself CDs • Overseas Talk Isn't Cheap TABLE: Finding a Deal • C'mon, Take a Walk on the Wild Side Again TABLE: Investing for the Upturn • Look Twice at This Bear-Market Bargain TABLE: KPMG Consulting: Vital Signs • Absorbing Clorox? CHART: A Great White Hope Dashed • Nuclear Power Puts a Glow on Exelon CHART: Enjoying the Energy Crunch • Acacia May Have Growth in Its Genes CHART: Slumping with the Market • Figures of the Week (.pdf) • The Week Ahead • Production Index Components Quick Action Can Save the Expansion New Rules for Trustbusting Market Lessons from California • Stealing a Wedge from Wisconsin (int'l edition) MAP: Tulare County • Bratislava May Get a New Heart...As a Nation Comes out of the Cold (int'l edition) MAP: Slovakia • Kobe Steel Is Not About to Go Under (int'l edition) • Capital Markets Are Full of Potholes (int'l edition) • Wyndham's Wastefulness Is Too Widespread (int'l edition) • The Hindujas Are in a Heap of Trouble (int'l edition) TABLE: The Hinduja Empire • STMicroelectronics: From Niche to Goliath (int'l edition) CHART: ST's Strategy: Defy the Chip Downturn through Diversification • For Leo Kirch, a Grand Prix, Indeed (int'l edition) CHART: Unwired • Commentary: Europe's Wireless Auctions: Give the Money Back (int'l edition) • This Time Around, Toledo Loves the Free Market (int'l edition) TABLE: Toledo's To-Do List • Taking a Hard Line All the Way to the Top? (int'l edition) RESUME: Alvaro Uribe Velez • This Beachhead Isn't Much to Land On (int'l edition) TABLE: How Europe's Tech Bourses Stack Up • Roadblock at the Bank of Japan (int'l edition) CHART: Battling Deflation • International Figures of the Week (.pdf) (int'l edition)
February 5, 2001 Japan's X-League Runs with the Ball
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