COVER STORY The Best & Worst Managers Of The Year From the pinnacle of performance to the depths of shame, 2003 witnessed a spectacular range of managerial achievement COVER IMAGE: The Best And Worst Managers Of The Year SPECIAL REPORT Industry Outlook 2004 It looks like a bang-up year ahead, but not for everyone. Here are the sectors to watch -- and some you may want to shun. UP FRONT Talk Show Morgan's Microsoft Muddle Could Local Radio K.O. Satellite? How To Make A Corporate Cause Click Getting A Head The Quiz READERS REPORT Who's To Blame For Boeing's Troubles? Giving Mutual-Fund Investors The Protection They Deserve Overhauling Overtime: The Labor Dept. Responds BOOKS What Doesn't Get In The Paper TECHNOLOGY & YOU A Smart Watch With Some Lessons To Learn ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT How The Skeptics Missed The Power Of Productivity BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: The Tea Leaves Still Say "Happy New Year" Britain: Higher Rates, But Consumers Will Cope NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY Detroit: Pedal To The Metal This Holiday Season, Shoppers Blinked Brainier Babies? Maybe. Big Sales? Definitely Dean Starts Testing The Tightrope Commentary: Shifting Work Offshore? Outsourcer Beware First Data: The Power Behind The Plastic Commentary: A Bum Steer On Mad Cow Disease IN BIZ THIS WEEK Fred Smith: Overnight Sensation Death Of A Diet Drug Cleaning Up A Chipmaker Hotel Le Lehman? Extra Eyes In The Sky Et Cetera... Closing Bell: Boeing WASHINGTON OUTLOOK Tobacco Regulation: It's No Pipe Dream Fannie Is Watching Its Back Stop Dean! Where? How? ASIAN BUSINESS Asia Loves Linux -- And Microsoft Scrambles India: Big Pharma's New Promised Land? Commentary: Japan: How To Turn An Illusory Recovery Into A Real One EUROPEAN BUSINESS How Parmalat Went Sour Auditors Asleep At The Wheel. Sound Familiar? Deutsche's Dilemma He'll Need The Luck Of The Irish THE MIDDLE EAST The Kurds' New Cause INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK Two Ways To Stop The Spread Of Nukes Another Global Foray By Brazil's Lula Israel Aircraft's Diversification Move INSIDE WALL STREET Quidel: Flu Test Fever EDLG: A Class Act For Student Loans? Orion: To Argentina, Via Vancouver FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures Of The Week Online Extra: Production Index Components The Week Ahead EDITORIALS An Ambitious Agenda For 2004 Managers Of The Year INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT What Software Patents Can -- And Can't -- Do Don't Discount Detroit's Quality Rankings INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures Of The Week (.pdf)
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