COVER STORY
The Painful Truth about Profits
Corporate America must slash more costs before earnings rise very far
COVER IMAGE: The Painful Truth about Profits
CHART: The Profit Boom of the 1990s: Hard to Repeat?
CHART: The Drag on Profits
GRAPHIC: How Options Sapped Profits
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Winning Workplaces
UP FRONT
Talk Show
In the Sniper Zone, Deliveries Rise
Cleaner Air--Kyoto or Not
How Air Force One Let Bush Down
China: Keeping Asia Aloft
Three Tightwad Amigos Ride Again
Fantasy Teams, Real Profits
READERS REPORT
Tallying the Value of Mergers
Making the Poor Poorer
Why CEOs Won't Be Any Help
The View from El Paso
A Better Read on How Schools Are Doing
Similar Credit Ratings, Different Risks
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
"The best B-schools" (Special Report, Oct. 21, 2002)
BOOKS
The Power and the Privilege
The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
How to Achieve Digital Nirvana
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
Bush's Economic Policies: The Bull's-Eyes and Busts
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: The Hot-and-Cold Recovery Could Warm Up Soon
The Euro Zone: Will the Central Bank Give Germany a Break?
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
A Lost Generation of Job Seekers?
COMMENTARY: Women Work. The Support System Doesn't
The Bill Comes Due for Capital One
Earnings: Sound and Fury, and Not Much Else
Corporate America's Crunched Numbers
The Dems: It's Time for Triage
Edison: An "F" in Finance
Commentary: Why Tech's Heavyweights Still Can't Crush the Small Fry
The Humble Handheld: A Laptop Killer?
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
Paul Allen: One Troubled Cable Guy
AOL's Accounting Woes: No Big Deal?
United May Yet Avoid Bailing Out
Parched at Texas Instruments
New Guidelines for Bean Counters
Martha in the Mire
Et Cetera...
Downer
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
Desperately Seeking Some Traction from "NASCAR Democrats"
Wooing Webster
War Boomerang
The Rudy Factor
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Rethinking Tokyo
Commentary: North Korea: Why Diplomacy Is Bush's Only Weapon
Meet the New Global Grain Giant
INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK
The Man Who May Determine Whether the U.S. Attacks Iraq
Iraq's fate -- and U.S. war plans -- could depend on how the UN's Hans Blix handles the challenge of arms inspection
Industrial Icon in Trouble
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Did Peregrine Bully Its Partners?
SPORTS BUSINESS
The Olympics: A Man, a Plan, New York
PEOPLE
No Nerd at Intel's Top? Heresy!
GOVERNMENT
Commentary: Before You Reform Wall Street, Reform Yourselves
FINANCE
Qwest: What Did Phil Know?
Schwab: Closed Eyes, Open Wallet
MANAGEMENT
He Collects Butterflies--and Companies
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Chips on Monster Wafers
Dawn of the Superchip
THE CORPORATION
How Nike Got Its Game Back
BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR
Free-Range Funds That Outrun the Bear
Mortgage Funds: From Heroes to Bums?
It May Be Time to Unload That Warhol
BUSINESSWEEK LIFESTYLE
Walk Softly, and Bring Binoculars
Montreal's Icy Sparkle
THE BARKER PORTFOLIO
My Favorite Mutual Fund
INSIDE WALL STREET
S&P Says: Going Up
Is Mesa Set to Fly Higher Still?
NCO May Be Going After Tax Deadbeats
FIGURES OF THE WEEK
Figures of the Week (.pdf)
EDITORIALS
Profits: No Pain, No Gain
Is Washington Just Faking It?
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
Easing the Plight of the Poor
Another Take on the Oldest Profession
INTERNATIONAL -- CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
"The top global B-schools" ("The best B-schools," Special Report, Oct. 21, 2002)
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
The Philippines: The Price of Terror
Futurama at Sanyo
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
Shining amid Europe's Gloom
Despite a lukewarm economy, these European outfits have achieved the stability it takes to thrive
Luxury Goods: The Timing Couldn't Have Been Worse
Commentary: Is Germany Fast Turning into Another Japan?
Germans fear that their country could go down the road of chronic deflation and economic hopelessness, too
INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICA
Lula: Seeing Eye to Eye with Business
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPE'S BEST FUNDS
Mining the Silver Lining
Revenge of the Goldbugs
Offshore Fund Scoreboard (.pdf)
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK
International Figures of the Week (.pdf)
INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS
EU Expansion Isn't a Done Deal
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