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COVER STORY
Xerox: The Downfall The inside story of a management fiasco
COVER IMAGE: Xerox: The Downfall
TABLE: Xerox' History: The Highs and Lows
CHART: Xerox Lost Its Hold On Copiers...And Flubbed Desktop Printers...
TABLE: Xerox' Dire Finances
Commentary: Shhh! You'll Wake the Board
TABLE: Where Were They?
FRONTIER
Frontier In the latest supplement for entrepreneurs: Minority mergers; Broadband or bust; Bankruptcy; Health insurance; and more
UP FRONT
Talk Show
GRAPHIC: Property Investing Guide
From Toyota with Love?
A PC True Believer Now Says Junk 'Em
No Stain on His Career
TABLE: Pigging Out at the Perk Barrel
Service with a Smile--and Your Name
The Dotcomguy Gets a Real Life
Footnotes
READERS REPORT
Rolling Blackouts, Steaming Hot Tubs
An Energy Baron Draws Some Static
Don't Leave Education Just to Educators
A Tax Cut--or an Amputation?
That Read-My-Lips Thing Again
A Red Flag or a Pink Slip for Greenspan?
E-Filing Tax Returns Is a Sucker's Game
Give Up Your Patents, Microsoft
Extreme Football? Don't Make Me Laugh
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
''Spider spit can do a shaky heart good'' (Developments to Watch, Feb. 5, 2001)
BOOKS
How One Woman Followed the Money
PHOTO: Cover, ''Money Makes the World Go Around''
The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
Apple's New Laptop Is a Peach
TABLE: Titanium's Specs
PHOTO: Apple Titanium Laptop
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
Cities: Investing in Culture Is Simply Good Business
ECONOMIC TRENDS
What's Lost Between Jobs
CHART: Finding Another Job Is Easier Now
Flexibility Is No Key to Stability
More Science Grad Students
CHART: More Overseas Grad Students
INDUSTRY MONITOR
This Tiny Tank Could Patrol Your Living Room
PHOTO: The MARV
Do Landfills Need Regular Showers?
Cleaning Chips with CO2, Not H2O
Innovations
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: Growth Is Near Zero--and That's Good News
CHART: Households Have the Blues
CHART: The Impact of Autos on Production
CHART: Homebuilders Are Busy This Winter
Italy: A Quick Kick from Tax Cuts
CHART: Yearend Output Gets a Boost
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
A Crisis in Capital Spending?
CHART: Where the Squeeze Is
Asia's High-Tech Heartburn
TABLE: Where the Pileups Are
Commentary: Why the Budget Won't Add Up
TABLE: The Horns of a Dilemma
Horse-Trading for Free Trade
Commentary: These Days, Even Stars Can Fizzle on the Launchpad
CHART: Rare Birds
Commentary: Chrysler: Too Many Bells and Whistles
TABLE: Chrysler's Troubled Product Strategy...Has Management Scrambling for Fixes
PHOTO: New Dodge Ram
California's Bitter Bailout
Commentary: New England's Energy Lesson: Less Is More
CHART: Through the Roof
TABLE: Turning Down the Lights
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
John Dasburg: Ready to Cook
Coke and P&G Meet over Snacks
Enron: Energizing Quaker Oats
A $1 Billion Offer Gets Tuned Out
Why Exxon Dealers Are Pumped Up
Intuit Still Has the Bug
Et Cetera...
New Error?
CHART: Sybase Stock Price
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
The Stage Seems Set for Net Privacy Rules This Year
Texas Tax Two-Step
Different Tunes
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Giving 'Em Away?
TABLE: Sweetheart Deals
Schrempp, the Survivor?
CHART: DaimlerChrysler's Surprising Surge
Novartis' Marketing Doctor
TABLE: A Fresh Strategy for Hiking Sales
Looking for Free Trade Far from Home
TABLE: Toward Wider Horizons
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
Washington and Moscow: Back to the Cold War?
Italy: Kickback Charges
PEOPLE
Bully Pulpit. Lucrative, Too
TABLE: Bill Bennett Inc.
THE CORPORATION
Ford's Gamble on Luxury
TABLE: Ford's Luxury Portfolio...
CHART: ...And How It Stacks Up
PHOTO: Ford Freelander
SPECIAL REPORT
Software Shakeout
TABLE: How Software Services Stack Up
TABLE: How It Works
Smoking Out the Smart Buys
TABLE: The Up-and-Comers
How to Protect Yourself If Your ASP Goes AWOL
TABLE: Survival Tools
ENTERTAINMENT
Joe Roth Plays Let's Make a Deal
TABLE: How He Spreads the Risk
MARKETING
Grown-Up Drinks for Tender Taste Buds
TABLE: ''Alternabevs'': What the Major Players Are Up To
SOCIAL ISSUES
A Shot in the Arm for America's Uninsured?
TABLE: Help May Be on the Way
DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH
Introduction
It's a Bug's Life Fighting E. Coli in Cattle
Making Solar Cells on the Cheap
A Fish Story: How Reserves Foster Marine Life
Life Expectancy Past 85? Not Likely
FINANCE
Suing the Street over Bum Advice
TABLE: Making Wall Street Pay
The Tech Slump's Next Victim?
CHART: Still Beating the Nasdaq
Commentary: Behind Nasdaq's Hissy Fit
MANAGEMENT
Brain Drain at the B-Schools
CHART: PhD Drought?
INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
Cutting Edge in Rural Colorado?
TABLE: Delta-Montrose Electric Assn.
MAP: Colorado
INDUSTRY INSIDER
Q&A: An Energy Crusader Talks Business
TABLE: Energy Advances
BUSINESSWEEK LIFESTYLE
The ABCs of Home-Schooling
TABLE: Extra Help for Home-Schoolers
BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR
It's Not All in the Timing
TABLE: How Good Were the Good Times?
How to Survive Fed Shock
TABLE: Harvesting Higher Yields
How to Green the Golden Years
TABLE: Playing Catch-up
THE BARKER PORTFOLIO
This Message Board May Really Light Up
TABLE: Some Club Picks Are Panning Out
INSIDE WALL STREET
Nokia and Redback?
CHART: Beaten to Smithereens
Buoyant at American Standard
CHART: Steady Upward Pressure
Why Frontier Oil May Get Pumped Up
CHART: Lying Very Low
FIGURES OF THE WEEK
Figures of the Week (.pdf)
The Week Ahead
Production Index Components
EDITORIALS
Lessons from the Fall of Xerox
The Estate Tax: Mend It, Don't End It
INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM EL SALVADOR
A Murdered Village Comes Back to Life (int'l edition)
MAP: El Salvador
INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON BELGIUM
As the EC's Home Repairs Drag On...A Squabble over Summits Heats Up (int'l edition)
MAP: Belgium
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
The Mideast: Who's Responsible for What (int'l edition)
Nothing Prodigal about Argentina's Provinces (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
High-Tech Heartburn (int'l edition)
TABLE: Where the Pileups Are
Hanging Up on Private Cell Companies (int'l edition)
TABLE: Dial C for Controversy
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
Commentary: EM.TV: A How-Not-To Guide for German Investors (int'l edition)
CHART: EM.TV's Wild Ride
INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE
Why Lloyds Can't Stop Hunting (int'l edition)
TABLE: How Lloyds TSB Stacks Up
Why Germany's M&A Party Pooped Out (int'l edition)
TABLE: Mergers & Indigestion
Bye-Bye Bolsa ? (int'l edition)
CHART: How Long Will the Rally Last?
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK
International Figures of the Week (.pdf) (int'l edition)
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
Denial in the Euro Zone (int'l edition)
Online Highlights from page 10 of this issue
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Cover Digital Imaging by Christine Cafiero
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