The Economist (UK) 1996 - Abstracts

The Economist (UK) 1996
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48 hours from Brussels. (European Union's rules on working hours)(Editorial)Business, international 
Abacha wins. (Nigerian ruler General Sani Abacha)Business, international 
A beardless Branson for Japan: the airline industry.Business, international 
A big bang for Japan: the Japanese government has announced its intention to reform the financial system. Should its proposals be taken seriously?Business, international 
A bit about photographs: digital photography is developing rapidly. How quickly it will overtake conventional cameras and film though, is debatable.Business, international 
Absolutely unpredictable: making good sitcoms.(British television)Business, international 
A bucolic chorus: opera festivals. (Glimmerglass Opera company of Cooperstown, New York)Business, international 
A case of the DTs. (privatization in Europe)Business, international 
A case of unrefined behaviour. (oil refinery)Business, international 
Accidental hero.(monetary policy in the UK)Business, international 
A century of flight: abstract art.(various artists; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY)Business, international 
A cheer for Olympo-Americans.(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
A classic problem.(classical music recording sales)Business, international 
A costly battle against recession: Japan.Business, international 
A crash course in economics: the belated discovery of profit and loss.(Cuban reform)(Survey - Cuba)Business, international 
Action man. (Myles Frechette, US ambassador in Bogota, Colombia, critical of government of President Ernesto Samper)Business, international 
Action replay: the North Carolina Senate race. (rematch between Senator Jesse Helms and Democratic challenger Harvey Gantt)(American Survey)Business, international 
Activism, but in what sense? (President Bill Clinton adopts activist trade agenda)(American Survey)Business, international 
A Democratic Nixon?(President Bill Clinton; President Richard M. Nixon)(American Survey)Business, international 
A deValued service: America's airlines. (FAA suspends ValuJet Airlines)Business, international 
A developing theory: cholesterol.Business, international 
Adieu, Dayton? Bosnia.(Dayton peace agreement)Business, international 
A disaster that hasn't quite happened. (Turkish economy)(A Survey of Turkey)Business, international 
Ado cherche appart: how French is changing.Business, international 
A drink from Japan: brewed for the gods. (jizake)Business, international 
A drug tale of two cities. (Mexican drug cartels; Cali, Colombia's cartel)Business, international 
A dying industry? The wrongs and rights of aid.(Sub-Saharan Africa Survey)Business, international 
A facade of unity: Europe's foreign policy.(European Union's united foreign policy)Business, international 
A faint message from the founders.(American Survey)Business, international 
A false choice: American experts are reluctant to get the government out of the business of paying pensions; they shouldn't be. (Social Security reform)Business, international 
A financial horror story. (bank deposit insurance programs offered by governments)(A Survey of International Banking)Business, international 
A foreign policy for America.Business, international 
A fortress against change. (European managers damaged by avoiding restructuring)(Business in Europe)Business, internationalEdward Carr
A fresh start? Selling Venezuela's banks.Business, international 
After Bosnia votes: for all their imperfections, Bosnia's elections are a step forward.(Editorial)Business, international 
After class. (class politics on the decline in the UK)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
After he's gone. (South African Pres Nelson Mandela)(Cover Story)(Editorial)Business, international 
After Japan.(South Korea on foreign investment buying spree)(Editorial)Business, international 
After Kohl: Germany.(German Chancellor Helmut Kohl)Business, international 
After Mobutu: Zaire. (decline of national leader Mobutu Sese Seko)Business, international 
After the party: Softbank. (Japanese computer and software company)Business, international 
After the storm. (Mexican economy)Business, international 
After Thomson: the long, slow death of Colbertism in France is being accompanied by worrying bouts of xenophobia and indecision; but it is dying nonetheless.(Editorial)Business, international 
A fundamental shift? (unnatural coalition tries to stop Islamic fundamentalist party Refah)(A Survey of Turkey)Business, international 
A funny way to fill the world's top job.(Secretary-General of the United Nations)Business, international 
A Gaelic boom: Ireland. (Irish economy booming)Business, international 
Against misplaced meanness. (President Bill Clinton attempts to change welfare reform law)(Leaders)(Editorial)Business, international 
A game of monopoly. (World Economy Survey)(theory of increasing returns)Business, international 
Aggro Banka: Czech banking.Business, international 
A giant gnome? Bank mergers. (proposed merger between the Union bank of Switzerland and CS Holding)Business, international 
A glint of peace? Russia and Chechnya.Business, international 
Agreeing to disagree. (discussions between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu monitored by Pres Bill Clinton)(Cover Story)Business, international 
A habit too hard to break. (special-interest campaign financing)(American Survey)Business, international 
A hostage to blackmail: Brazil.(Pres Fernando Henrique Cardoso may be tempted to bargain away proposed economic reforms for amendment that would allow him to be reelected)Business, international 
A hundred years on the clock. (automobile industry)(Survey: Living with the Car)Business, international 
A KGB man becomes a player: computer games as films.Business, international 
A lesson in Mexico. (democratic reform)(Editorial)Business, international 
Alexander the not-so-great: Belarus.(Belarus and Russia treaty met with criticism)Business, international 
Alex Salmond's day-dream. (Scottish nationalist)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Alger Hiss. (US official convicted of communism during 1950s McCarthyism)(Obituary)Business, international 
Algeria's agony. (banishing all political Islamics will not end the violence in Algeria)(Leaders)(Editorial)Business, international 
A little potential. (Japan's Micromachine Technology project)Business, international 
A little squirt: car engines. (improved car engine design)Business, international 
All change in India.(Bharatiya Janata Party and anti-Muslim sentiment)(Editorial)Business, international 
All change in Pakistan. (Benazir Bhutto's government dissolved)Business, international 
All free traders now? (liberalization of trade regulations; the World Trade Organization conference)(Cover Story)Business, international 
All God's children; the British government should bow to demands that it pay for Muslim schools.(Editorial)Business, international 
All of a sudden every banker is a World Banker.Business, international 
All politics is local: India. (1996 election forecast)Business, international 
All the president's fault: campaign issue: drugs.(American Survey)(Brief Article)Business, international 
All the president's henchmen: Indonesia.Business, international 
All Tories now.(Britain's New Politics Survey)Business, international 
Alone at last? Olivetti.(Italian government resists more support of failing Olivetti SpA)Business, international 
A loose screw: life on Mars.Business, international 
A lopsided union. (Brasil's predominant role in Mercosur discussed)(Mercosur Survey)Business, international 
A marriage of convenience.(British Telecom takeover of MCI)Business, international 
A matter of confidence: Israel and the Palestinians. (politics of the Middle East peace process)Business, international 
Ambitious men.(who will lead Russia when Boris Yeltsin gets heart bypass operation)Business, international 
America and Japan: friends in need.Business, international 
American consumer debt: the cutting edge. (credit cards)Business, international 
America's Chinese puzzle.(trade and Taiwan)Business, international 
America's fantastic factories: it is not just investment that counts, but how you use it.(Editorial)Business, international 
America smiles at itself. (museums)Business, international 
America's power plants.(capital productivity)(Economics Focus)(Column)Business, international 
A message from the IRA: the huge bomb which destroyed the heart of Manchester has also exposed deep divisions among Irish republicans.Business, international 
A moody lot: France.(government difficulties in France)Business, international 
An acknowledged trend. (so-called information age)(World Economy Survey)Business, international 
An alternative viewpoint. (response to Fred Bergsten's article on Japan's monetary policy)(Column)Business, international 
A nasty job for some poor chancellor: the economy. (raising taxes and interest rates)(Britain)Business, international 
A national identity crisis: Australia.Business, international 
An attractive idea: molecular magnets.Business, international 
And baby makes three (or more): the ethics of fertility treatment are mainly a private matter.(Editorial)Business, international 
Andersen's androids: Andersen Consulting is a formidable machine. But has its chief engineer left out one vital ingredient? (George Shaheen)(Face Value)(Column)Business, international 
And for our next crisis: emerging-market banks. (Brazilian government bails out Banco Economico and Banco Nacional)(Finance and Economics)Business, international 
And now for the homeburger.(factory-made homes)Business, international 
And now, the hemisphere: the road to free trade throughout the hemisphere is strewn with obstacles - and no wild enthusiasm to get round them.(Survey Mercosur)Business, international 
Andreas Papandreou.(Greek political leader)(Obituary)Business, international 
...And the Indian Ocean.(direct Asian investment in South Africa)Business, international 
And this is competition? Telecoms mergers. (Nynex and Bell Atlantic)Business, international 
An Economist manifesto. (a critique of the British government)(A Survey of Britain's New Politics)Business, international 
An empire at risk.(future of HSBC, bank that does business in Hong Kong after Chinese takeover)Business, international 
A new beginning. (African economic development)(Sub-Saharan Africa Survey)Business, international 
A new game in Myanmar.(Aung San Suu Kyi leads a public political convention)Business, international 
A new kind of national champion: French finance. (merger between AXA and Union des Assurances de Paris)Business, international 
A new Newt. (Newt Gingrich)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
An experiment in the darkness. (analysis of welfare reform proposals)(American Survey)Business, international 
Angola: the diamond cut. (diamond industry dispute)Business, international 
Angst vs. optimism. (two senators' immigration debate)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
Another battle to fight: Russia's budget.(reducing the deficit in Russia)Business, international 
Another country: Somaliland.(unrecognized independent state in Somalia)Business, international 
Antisensical. (antisense technology)Business, international 
An unMITIgated success.(industrial spending of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry)Business, international 
An upstart takes wing: Europe's air-travel market is finally opening up. What are the chances for a small low-cost carrier? (EasyJet)(Face Value)(Column)Business, international 
Anwar and upwards: Malaysia.(Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim)Business, international 
Anybody there? Burundi.(renewed violence in Burundi)Business, international 
A partly electric future. (part-electric, part-gas-combustion automobile engines)(Survey: Living with the Car)Business, international 
A passion for variety: advertising. (advertising contracts)Business, international 
A patent cure-all? (alternative to pharmaceutical patents)(Finance and Economics: Economic Focus)(Column)Business, international 
A philosophical election: the New Jersey Senate race. (1996 race between Robert Toricelli, Dick Zimmer)Business, international 
Apple Computer: small in Japan.Business, international 
Apres Suharto: skies are darkening in Indonesia. (political opposition to Pres. Suharto)(Editorial)Business, international 
A problem in Paris: investment banking.(Finance and Economics)Business, international 
A problem with the Bank: China. (World Bank loans)Business, international 
A promise of halibut.(salmon farming in UK)Business, international 
A provincial gem: Zaire.(economic prosperity in the Eastern Kasai province of Zaire)Business, international 
A punch-up in plastic. (competition between Visa and other credit card companies in Western Europe)Business, international 
A question of character: Bill Clinton's ethical sloppiness may not worry voters, it should.(Editorial)Business, international 
Arafat acrobatics.(Yasser Arafat in Israel)Business, international 
Are crashes catching: exchange-rate crises, once started, tend to spread. For good reasons.(Economics Focus)(Column)Business, international 
A red giant stirs. (Navajo American Indian reservation)(American Survey)Business, international 
A referendum on the boss: Ghana. (Ghanaian dictator Jerry Rawlings)Business, international 
Are the poor different? (economic model for Third World countries)(Economics Focus)(Column)Business, international 
Argentina after Cavallo: an economics minister goes, the problems don't.(Domingo Cavallo)(Editorial)Business, international 
Arguments for enlargement. (European Union)Business, international 
A rotten windfall: taxation. (tax policy of Great Britain's Labor Party)Business, international 
Arrivederci, privatisation. (little interest shown for purchase of Italy's Banco di Napoli)Business, international 
Arte povera: Russia's museums.Business, international 
Art out of Shanghai's ashes. (Chinese art museum)Business, international 
A Serbian end-game?(Slobodan Milosevic's management of Serbia)Business, international 
A shock to the system: drugs in prisons. (in-house drug-treatment program)(Britain)Business, international 
Asia: a difficult time to be a Vietnamese Communist. (economic reform)Business, international 
Asia: China plays the Europe card. (economic relations between China and the European Union)Business, international 
Asia: Chinese grist to the Malthusian mills. (China's inability to grow its own grains)Business, international 
Asia: Myanmar's mysterious boom. (economic prosperity of South-East Asian country)Business, international 
Asians at play: a good day out. (theme parks)(Asia)Business, international 
Asia's brand barons go shopping: the insatiable appetite of Asian consumers for western brands is tempting Asian firms to buy some - or to develop their own.Business, international 
Asia's flagging alliance. (security alliance between the U.S. and Japan)(Editorial)Business, international 
A smelly summer: France. (charges of political corruption and obstruction of justice)(Europe)Business, international 
A solution for AIDS? (protease blockers look promising)(Editorial)(Cover Story)Business, international 
A Spanish world. (Spain's quest for international respect)(Spain Survey)Business, international 
A standard dose: cross-border prescriptions for banking systems can sometimes do more harm than good.(A Survey of International Banking)Business, international 
A swampy path to closer union. (European Union)Business, international 
A tale of two homecomings.(Africa)Business, international 
A tale of two lobbies: why do two similar countries disagree so profoundly about guns?(United Kingdom and the United States)(Editorial)Business, international 
At bay: hunting. (anti-hunting laws due partly to hunters' failure to present their case to the public)(American Survey)Business, international 
A test ban for all. (nuclear weapons testing)(Editorial)Business, international 
Atlanta's high jump: the Olympics. (1996 summer games host city)Business, international 
At last: Guatemala.(possible end to civil war)Business, international 
At last, the real race begins. (Pres Clinton and Bob Dole)(Cover Story)(Editorial)Business, international 
A truly miserable market: Japanese government bonds.Business, international 
At the court of King Ratan.(Face Value)(Column)Business, international 
At war over Rabin's grave.Business, international 
Au contraire: Canada. (English-speaking Quebec natives)Business, international 
Augean law: Venezuela. (legal reform)Business, international 
Australia's engagement rings. (international relations under the new conservative government)Business, international 
A victory for rationality: homosexuals.(U.S. Supreme Court rescinds Colorado Amendment 2)(American Survey)Business, international 
A weak constitution.(Boris Yeltsin's ill health)Business, international 
A wealth of working women.(American Survey)Business, international 
Awful: Japanese banks.(forecast of 1995 results)Business, international 
A word is worth 1,000 pictures.(the commercial failure of video telephones)Business, international 
A working hypothesis.(slow productivity growth in the US; Economics Focus)(Column)Business, international 
Back on the road.(Back on the Road: A Survey of the Philippines)Business, internationalPaul Markillie
Back to basics in Japan.(putting more emphasis on development of new technologies)Business, international 
Back to nature. (sculpture in outdoor locations in United Kingdom)Business, international 
Back to the basics. (revival of classical Greek and Latin literature)Business, international 
Back to the garage. (network computing)(A Survey of the Software Industry)Business, international 
Back to the old Middle East.(Israel pummels southern Lebanon)(Editorial)Business, international 
Backyard blues: Japanese lending in Asia.Business, international 
Bad company? Business in Europe.Business, international 
Bad law: Egypt.(court ruling on a Muslim woman marrying an apostate from Islam)Business, international 
Bahraini fireworks.(demands for democratic rights go unheard)(Editorial)Business, international 
Bangladesh's last chance: if this general election goes wrong, the army's patience may snap.(Editorial)Business, international 
Bankrupt politics: the IRA. (Irish Republican Army sets bombs near Lisburn, Northern Ireland, in response to slow political response to negotiations)Business, international 
Ban nuclear tests: that is all that should be asked of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.(Editorial)Business, international 
Ban the bug bomb. (need to strengthen 1972 Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention)Business, international 
Barbarians at the check-out.(German store hours expand)Business, international 
Barbarians at the pearly gates.(influence of large funeral companies)Business, international 
Bargains in the Baltic. (Northern Europe's economy)Business, international 
Bashing the unions: as Labour and the Tories out-tough each other with plans to further restrict trade-union "militancy", it is worth asking what has been achieved by the union reforms of the past 17 years. (Great Britain)Business, international 
Bear-faced gall: trade in animals.Business, international 
Beavis comes to Budapest: Central European television.(privatization of Central European television)Business, international 
Behind the Zairean shambles.Business, international 
Being digital is not enough. (audio technology)Business, international 
Belgium's shame. (public opinion of political and justice systems)(Editorial)Business, international 
Berisha beacons: Albania. (prospects of support for President Sali Berisha's Democratic Party in upcoming parliamentary elections)Business, international 
Berth of a nation. (Russia and Ukraine disagree over who should control Sebastopol)Business, international 
Best of both worlds: pharmaceuticals in India.Business, international 
Better late than never: Britain's chancellor was right to raise interest rates, but would be wrong to think he can now relax.(Kenneth Clarke)(Editorial)Business, international 
Better than well: society's moral confusion over drugs is neatly illustrated by its differing reactions to Prozac and ecstasy.Business, international 
Between east and west: Ukraine.(courting both Russia and Western Europe)Business, international 
Between the dragon and the deep blue sea: a swelling China, a hesitant America: how to avoid a lonely Japan.(Tomorrow's Japan)Business, international 
Beware Greeks selling tankers. (Greek ship-owners)Business, international 
Beware the Ayatollahs: oil regulation in Texas. (politics of closing down the Texas Railroad Commission)(American Survey)Business, international 
Beware the mutant: evolution. (antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria)(Science and Technology)Business, international 
Beyond the grave: the Grateful Dead. (Deadhead phenomenon survives)Business, international 
Big bad smell: Turkey.(possible government corruption)Business, international 
Big business: kidnapping. (Latin America)Business, international 
Bigger, faster, better ears: the other technopolists. (Cisco Systems)Business, international 
Big is back: property developments. (in the UK)Business, international 
Bill Presley and Elvis Clinton.(comparison between Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
Black hole: race in the workplace. (race discrimination suit against Texaco)(American Survey)Business, international 
Black like me: race in America. (immigrant African Americans' socioeconomic advantages)Business, international 
Blair's brothers. (British Labor Party leader Tony Blair)Business, international 
Blair's first budget. (Kenneth Clarke of the UK)(Editorial)(Cover Story)Business, international 
Blame it on Vasari: artists' lives on film. (biographical movie 'Surviving Picasso,' about the painter Pablo Picasso)Business, international 
Blazing a trail to Mars. (new space missions to explore the Red Planet)Business, international 
Bloodthirsty: bats.Business, international 
Blowing in the wind: Japan.(October 1996 election)Business, international 
Boarding for Beijing.(Chinese agencies increase stakes in Swire Pacific's hong kong airlines Cathay Pacific and Dragonair.)Business, international 
Bob Dole, neighbour and statesman.(Lexington)(American Survey)(Column)Business, international 
Bob Dole's independence day. (Dole's position on abortion)(Editorial)Business, international 
Bogeyman in Brighton: Tory MPs are scared witless by Sir James Goldsmith's Referendum party; they shouldn't be.(Britain)Business, international 
Bonfires and boycotts: Northern Ireland.Business, international 
Boomtown, USA. (Las Vegas, NV)(American Survey)Business, international 
Boosted by the ballot: American stockmarkets.Business, international 
Bosnia's lingering peace.Business, international 
Bouncing off air: light-emitting radars.Business, international 
Bourses for courses: European financial markets.Business, international 
Brave new medium: same old message. (Internet)(Editorial)Business, international 
Brazil: Cardoso, again? (president Fernando Henrique Cardoso)Business, international 
Brazil: privatisation trundles ahead.Business, international 
Brazil: real-politics. (economic policies of president Fernando Henrique Cardoso)Business, international 
Brazil's blind spot. (Brazil lacks talented painters)Business, international 
Breaking the glass ceiling. (women in the workforce)(Editorial)Business, international 
Bribe and bash: Corsica. (separatist violence against France)Business, international 
Bridging a continental gap.(European Union)Business, international 
Bright start: Italy.(Italy's new government)Business, international 
Bring the harvest lawsuits home. (some US farmers and grain elevators suffer losses from hedge-to-arrive contracts)(American Survey)Business, international 
Britain: burnt by the steak. (effects of mad cow disease on the British beef industry)Business, international 
Britain: delinquent behaviour. (moral behavior of children)Business, international 
Britain: feeling insecure. (job security)Business, international 
Britain: negotiating from weakness: the prime minister's toughest talking has failed to silence his Eurorebels.(John Major)Business, international 
Britain plays polecat.(Britain's threatened boycott of the European Union)Business, international 
Britain's ancestors. (Dictionary of National Biography)Business, international 
Britain's electricity shocker. (two electric power mergers could threaten competition)(Editorial)(Cover Story)Business, international 
Britain's many options: a single European currency.Business, international 
Britain: thinking the unthinkable. (Labor Party's public-opinion polls)Business, international 
Britain: trigger happy. (handgun legislation)Business, international 
Brothers in alms.(labor contract between United Automobile Workers and Ford Motor Co.)Business, international 
Bruce and Kylie mount the barricades.(rioting in Canberra, Australia)Business, international 
Bubble trouble: China's economy.Business, international 
Budget in brief. (forecast and analyses of the effects of British Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke's proposed budget)('96 budget)Business, international 
Bugging the castle: civil liberties. (MI5 given powers to search properties without warrants)Business, international 
Building Eurospace Corp. (military-aerospace firms)Business, international 
Building slowly for the future: South Africa.Business, international 
Building the new Asia. (infrastructure)Business, international 
Built on thin air: wireless telephony. (Britain)Business, international 
Bumper to bumper.(Thailand's growing automobile industry)Business, international 
Burundi after the coup.(foreign relations in Burundi)Business, international 
Burying the general. (French military policy)Business, international 
Business education: dons and dollars.Business, international 
Business gears up. (automobile industry expands in southern South American nations) (Mercosur Survey)Business, international 
Cable television's long march. (future of cable television industry)Business, international 
Candles in the dark. (industry in eastern Germany)Business, international 
Can happy days be here again?(American Survey)Business, international 
Can Hong Kong stay free? If the answer is no, the consequences will be felt far beyond one little ex-British colony.(Editorial)Business, international 
Can Israel rekindle peace?(Cover Story)Business, international 
Can Ken stay on his pedastal: Kenneth Clarke survived his ordeal at the Tory conference this week, but will his hard-won reputation survive November's budget?Business, international 
Can Russia ever be secured? (relations between Russia and NATO)Business, international 
Can the G7 ride again? (study on the Group of Seven)(Economics Focus)(Column)Business, international 
Can the PRI change its spots? Mexico.(political reform in Mexico)Business, international 
Can this caterpillar fly? (Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole)Business, international 
Can't pay, won't pay. (deficiencies in the wholesale settlements and payments systems of banks)(A Survey of International Banking)Business, international 
Cardinal Suenens. (Roman Catholic reformer died on May 6, 1996)(Obituary)Business, international 
Card sharps. (credit card market limitations opposed)(Editorial)Business, international 
Careless Britain. (services for the mentally ill in Britain)(Editorial)Business, international 
Carving out a new future: Japanese consumer electronics.(digital video disc)Business, international 
Catching up: Paraguay.(democratic reforms)Business, international 
Cavallo's circus. (Argentina's former economy minister Domingo Cavallo faces lawsuits)Business, international 
Caving in: France. (French government seems to cave in when workers go on strike)Business, international 
Central intelligence agents. (autonomous agent software)(Science and Technology)Business, international 
Ceramic in wonderland: materials science.(zirconium tungstate shrinks when heated)Business, international 
Cereal thriller: America's food business. (price war)Business, international 
Chalk and cheese: Norway and Sweden.(Norway and Sweden's economic conditions and the European Monetary Union)Business, international 
Changing gear at Toyota.(Toyota chairman Hiroshi Okuda looks for ways to keep Toyota at the top of the market; Face Value)(Column)Business, international 
Charge! Credit cards.(US credit card issuers entering UK market)Business, international 
Charles Kades. (dead at age 90 on Jun 18, 1996)(Obituary)Business, international 
Cheap, dumb and connected. (network computers)(Editorial)Business, international 
Chechnya and Russia: chaos in both. (civil war)Business, international 
Checkmating parasites. (research into the sex lives of parasites and their effect on immunity)Business, international 
Cheers for beer and BMW: trade. (World Trade Organization summit)Business, international 
China: a funny-looking tiger: what can the Asian tigers tell us about the future of China?(Cover Story)Business, international 
China looming.(Editorial)Business, international 
China on the move.(migrant workers)Business, international 
China's feuding regions.Business, international 
China's gamble: tension is mounting in Hong Kong. This matters as much to China as to the British colony itself.Business, international 
China's grassroots democracy.Business, international 
China's politics of crime. (campaigns against crime and political corruption)(Asia)Business, international 
China's wedge.(playing U.S. and Europe against each other)(Editorial)Business, international 
Chips, bases, troops and cash: America and Japan.Business, international 
Chirac astride the world.(French president Jacques Chirac)Business, international 
Chiyo Uno.(Japanese writer dies)(Obituary)Business, international 
Cincinnatus Di Pietro? Italy. (magistrate Antonio Di Pietro)Business, international 
Citizen Gates. (Microsoft invests in media projects)Business, international 
Citizen Jeff: Australia.(Premier Jeff Kennett of Victoria, Australia)Business, international 
Civics 101.(social responsibility; Management Focus)(Column)Business, international 
Clarke's passion spent. (British chancellor resigns)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Clash of the titans. (study on the performance of big companies and its effect on national economies)(Economics Focus)Business, international 
Class action: New York's schools. (public school reform)(American Survey)Business, international 
Cleaning up Latin America.(Organization of American States' anti-corruption treaty)Business, international 
Cleansing Bach and Beethoven. (authentic music movement matures)Business, international 
Clever clown?(Umberto Bossi of the Northern League in Italy)Business, international 
Clinton II: the strategy. (Pres. Clinton's budget deficit plan)(American Survey)Business, international 
Clinton's slippery coat-tails. (similarities between the election campaigns in the United States and United Kingdom)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Coca clashes: Colombia.(ban against coca farming)Business, international 
Colchester's crunchiness.(relating crunchy and soggy to wealth and poverty)(Editorial)Business, internationalNico Colchester
Cold comfort: Japan.Business, international 
Collateral damage: Sun Microsystems. (competition in the Web browser market and marketing of Java)Business, international 
College knowledge: multimedia advice for British students is catching up with that in America.(Review of Books and Multimedia)Business, international 
Colombia's guerrillas flourish as its president fades. (Colombian president Ernesto Samper)Business, international 
Come to the cookhouse door, boys; the case for a bigger navy, linked to America's.(Tomorrow's Japan)Business, international 
Coming a cropper in copper. (Sumitomo Corp.'s $1.8 billion loss on copper trading)Business, international 
Coming home. (returning executives) (Back on the Road: A Survey of the Philippines)Business, international 
Coming to America (again).(European investment banking)Business, international 
Coming together: car parts. (consolidation among car parts suppliers)(Business)Business, international 
Companias Espanolas: Spanish industry has strengths - and needs them, given its troubles.(Spain Survey)Business, international 
Companies and their consciences. (multinational companies)(Editorial)Business, international 
Condemned to live China's great contradiction. (socialist market economy)Business, international 
Consenting adults: Germany. (new law reduces sick pay compensation)Business, international 
Consolation: the Senate. (1996 elections)(American Survey)Business, international 
Controlling guns.(lobbying for tighter gun control laws in Great Britain)(Editorial)Business, international 
Coping with the ups and downs. (preventing a systemic banking crisis)(A Survey of International Banking)Business, international 
Copyrights and copywrongs. (intellectual property law)(Editorial)Business, international 
Coquilles St Jacques.(Jacques Chirac espouses religion in France)Business, international 
Corn in Cobb: Georgia.(Cobb County, Georgia removes chapter on evolution from curriculum)Business, international 
Correlation is now causation: optical computing.Business, international 
Countdown: Israel's settlements.(Jewish settlements in Gaza and West Bank angers Palestinians)Business, international 
Countdown to EMU: whether Europe should launch its single currency in 1999 depends on far more than the Maastricht criteria.(European economic and monetary union)(Editorial)Business, international 
Countdown to explosion: Western Europe's gas firms may soon face a ferocious bout of competition - triggered by ex-communists from Russia.Business, international 
Courting trouble: Germany.(German Constitutional Court may be too liberal)Business, international 
Cow crunching.(estimates of cows infected with mad cow disease)Business, international 
Cracking the Maya's code: new light on dark history.(Cover Story)Business, international 
Cradle to grave. (welfare spending in Britain)(A Survey of Britain's New Politics)Business, international 
Craft comes full circle: William Morris.Business, international 
Cream: further evidence on incentives and fat cats.(CEO compensation)(Editorial)Business, international 
Creditable: East European finance. (credit ratings)(Finance and Economics)Business, international 
Credit crunch: another bailout of Credit Lyonnais will undermine Europe's fight against market-crippling state aids.(Editorial)Business, international 
Creeping to justice: the Oklahoma bombing trial.Business, international 
Crime and punishment. (violent crime in the US and other nations is escalating as nations get tougher towards crime)(Cover Story)(Editorial)Business, international 
Crisis, again: the Korean peninsula.(Asia)Business, international 
Crisis in the Kremlin: the sacking of Alexander Lebed, the ambitious national-security chief, is another grim sign of Russia's new instability.Business, international 
Crossing the Pacific.(direct Asian investment in Latin America)Business, international 
Cruising ahead: Italian shipbuilding.Business, international 
Cruising in neutral. (popularity of hedge funds)Business, international 
Crying freedom: the Bank of Japan. (central bank seeks greater independence)(Finance and Economics)Business, international 
Cuba's two nations: or, why dollars are dangerous.(Survey - Cuba)Business, international 
Curbing the car: how to solve the problem caused by our 100-year love-affair with the car.(Editorial)Business, international 
Cut and grow - hope and woe. (European economies)Business, international 
Cyber-casino: Internet stocks. (initial public offerings by Internet companies)Business, international 
Cycling in tandem: the world economy.(world economic growth balance)Business, international 
Damned lies. (economic statistics misleading)Business, international 
Dances with Wolves.(Cuba's relations with the US; Survey - Cuba)Business, international 
Dancing partners: business in South Africa.Business, international 
Dangerous deriving? (derivative trading's threat to banks)(A Survey of International Banking)Business, international 
David Blunkett escapes the traps. (Labour Party's candidate for education secretary)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
David Ifshin. (former student activist)(Obituary)Business, international 
David Packard.(Obituary)Business, international 
Dead or alive: Chechnya. (death of Chechen leader Jokar Dadaev is examined)Business, international 
Death shadows Africa's Great Lakes. (Hutus and Tutsis)Business, international 
Death without life: Japanese insurance. (greater competition in the insurance industry)Business, international 
Debit banks: Japanese finance.Business, international 
Defender of the D-mark. (Germany's feelings about the single currency for the European Union)Business, international 
Defrosting the settlements: Israel and the Palestinians.Business, international 
Deja vu all over again: the Booker literary prize.Business, international 
Deja Vu: Arab summit.Business, international 
Delays can be expected.(problems of airports handling future heavy traffic)Business, international 
Delivery man? Spain.(Spain's prime minister Jose Maria Aznar and economic recovery)Business, international 
Demobilising but still divided: Angola.Business, international 
Democracy 2, Sandinists 0: Nicaragua.(Sandinist Party loses another presidential election)Business, international 
Democracy at gunpoint: to Turkey, freedom does not come naturally.(A Survey of Turkey)Business, international 
Democracy's second age. (proposals of Great Britain's Labor Party)Business, internationalTony Blair
Democrats at NATO's door.(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)(Cover Story)(Editorial)Business, international 
De Mortier, nil nisi bonum: Salzburg festival. (music, drama and opera)Business, international 
Deng and his dynasty amid the tea-leaves. (Deng Xiaoping)Business, international 
Depressed dragons: Asian bond markets.Business, international 
Deutche's wayward wunderkind.(Deutsche Banks's Deutsche Morgan Grenfell)Business, international 
Deutsche shuffle: German banking. (Rolf Breuer, new chairman of Deutsche Bank's managing board)Business, international 
Development opportunity? The Grand Canyon.(Canyon Forest Village Corp.'s proposed development)Business, international 
Dial M for merger; BT and MCI are following airlines down the runway to a global free-for-all. (British Telecommunications PLC acquisition of MCI Communications Corp.)(Leaders)(Editorial)Business, international 
Dial N1 for New Labour: letter from Islington. (London, England, borough is home to members of the United Kingdom's Labour Party)Business, international 
Digby Baltzell.(professor and author)(Obituary)Business, international 
Dim present, brighter future: Israel's economy.Business, international 
Dinosaur dentist detective: palaeontology.(Science and Technology)Business, international 
Disagreeing to agree: India.Business, international 
Discounted: the City. (London's financial discount houses)(Industry Overview)Business, international 
Distrust banks: Japanese banking.(Japanese trust banks)Business, international 
Dithering Douglas: lacking a clear strategy, McDonnel Douglas's chances of regaining leadership of the world defence industry from Lockheed Martin look slim. (The Defence Business)Business, international 
Divide and conquer: supercomputers.Business, international 
Divinity and gender: a God for both sexes.Business, internationalKaren Armstrong
Dodgy regimes, dodgy tactics: the United States' new sanctions on Cuba, Iran and Libya are dangerous.(Editorial)Business, international 
Do it with care: fighting terrorism.(American Survey)Business, international 
Dole country? The race in California. (Republican Bob Dole's 1996 Presidential campaign)Business, international 
Don't forget Burundi: behind it hovers the spectre of Rwanda.(Editorial)Business, international 
Don't just stand there: opera as drama.Business, international 
Doomonomics. (financially lucrative practice of giving away free samples of software)(A Survey of the Software Industry)Business, international 
Doors slam: Bosnia's refugees.Business, international 
Double or quit? Brazil.(presidential term in Brazil)(International)Business, international 
Doublethink in Myanmar.(propaganda and other Orwellian facets of the government of Myanmar, formerly Burma)Business, international 
Down the hatch: British brewing. (industry decline)Business, international 
Dropping out: physical chemistry. (studying mixtures that separate)Business, international 
Dropping the pilot: Argentina.(dismissal of Argentine finance minister Domingo Cavallo)Business, international 
Drugs are back: Panama. (illegal drug trade)Business, international 
Duelling: India's stock exchanges.Business, international 
Dulce et decorum est. (John Major must weigh political chances and duty in timing Britain's elections)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Dutch courage: pension funds.(pension fund investments)Business, international 
Economists for Clinton. (survey shows that economists back Pres Clinton for reelection)(American Survey)Business, international 
Ecuador: the ogre beams. (newly elected president Abdala Bucaram)Business, international 
Egypt's gentle voice, iron hand.(Islamic reformer Sayed Tantawi appointed head of Al Alzhar University; crackdown on Islamist dissidents continues)Business, international 
Elrey Jeppesen. (pioneer aviator)(Obituary)Business, international 
Emerging Asia's sombre era.(economic parallels between Asia and Mexico)Business, international 
Emerging, or collapsing?(developing countries and bank failures)(Editorial)Business, international 
Emile Noel. (European Commission official)(Obituary)Business, international 
Empires of the air: America's radio business.Business, international 
EMU after Dublin: the risks that Europe's single currency will go wrong have increased. (economic and monetary union)(Editorial)Business, international 
EMU: and what Alice found there.(Germany's strict European Monetary Unit policy)(Cover Story)Business, international 
EMU's working hypothesis: what effect will a single European currency have on unemployment? (economic and monetary union)(Economics Focus)(Column)Business, international 
EMU without tear-gas: France. (European Monetary Union)Business, international 
Encore, encore: revivals. (Broadway musicals)Business, international 
End of era: Croatia and Serbia. (leadership changes possible)Business, international 
Enough to try the patience of a saint: letter from St. Petersburg.(Russia)Business, international 
Enter McBoeing: Boeing's takeover of McDonnell Douglas creates a defence giant to rival Lockheed Martin - and puts the wind up Europe's aerospace companies.Business, international 
Enter, son of Walkman: mobile phones. (popularity of the Personal Handyphone System in Japan)Business, international 
Euro '99: a larger-than-expected entry into Europe's economic and monetary union should not be a worry - provided the right rules are set.(Editorial)Business, international 
European pilot. (Neil Kinnock, European Union transportation commissioner, proposes deregulation of industry)(Face Value)(Column)Business, international 
Europe's back office: the Irish financial industry.Business, international 
Europe's currency confusion; calls for a weaker French franc, or even a weak euro in 1999, miss the point.(Leaders)(Editorial)Business, international 
Europe's heavyweight. (German chancellor Helmut Kohl)(Editorial)(Cover Story)Business, international 
Europe's last strongman; whether or not Franjo Tudjman and Slobodan Milosevic hold on to power, the West can help steer their countries towards democracy.(Leaders)(Editorial)Business, international 
Europe's new model railways: transport and infrastructure.Business, international 
Europe's summertime blues. (economic relations)Business, international 
Europe versus America, again: Bosnia.(United States foreign policy on peace process in Bosnia-Herzegovina)Business, international 
Euro splits. (euro currency subject avoided officially, but privately debated rigorously at both Conservative and Labour party conferences in 1996)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Even oil is growing less sacred: energy in Latin America.Business, international 
Everything in the garden's lovely. (McKinsey managing director Rajat Gupta)(Face Value)(Column)Business, international 
Exasperating Ulster: will the province's political parties ever take a risk for peace? (Northern Ireland)(Editorial)Business, international 
Exclusive offers: South African insurance. (coping with HIV-AIDS)Business, international 
Extinguishing banking's fires: bad banks are usually the product of bad macroeconomic policy.(A Survey of International Banking)Business, international 
False promises: Labour ought not to be talking so loosely about cutting taxes. (the UK Labour Party)(Editorial)Business, international 
Family planning for pachyderms: conservation. (birth control for elephants)(Science and Technology)Business, international 
Fast developer: Indian banking.Business, international 
Faster than a speeding oven: rocket propulsion.Business, international 
Fatigued: the London Metal Exchange.Business, international 
Fear of foreigners.(UK further tightens immigration rules)(Editorial)Business, international 
Feast and famine. (dubious forecasts of dwindling world food supplies)Business, international 
Feeding frenzy. (tackling micronutrient deficiencies)Business, international 
Feeding the world. (solving starvation)(Editorial)Business, international 
Feeling groovy: liquid crystal displays.(improving side angle viewing of laptop computer screens)Business, international 
Feminism reaches Japan.Business, international 
Fidelity's fallen star.(Fidelity Magellan Fund manager Jeffrey Vinik resigns)Business, international 
Fidel's world: don't underestimate it.(Fidel Castro's Communist grip on the people is unabated)(Survey - Cuba)Business, international 
Fighting for California. (1996 presidential campaign)(American Survey)Business, international 
Film studios: in a spin. (entertainment industry)Business, international 
Financial legends.(myths and the stock market)Business, international 
Financial regulation: old lady, new problems. (British merchant bank Barings)Business, international 
Fire and forget?(corporate culture)Business, international 
Fire and ice: climatology.(meteorological effect of erupting volcano in Iceland)Business, international 
Fiscal fudge: labor pledges. (Labour Party promises to improve conditions in UK with little reference to the tax increases necessary to finance improvements)Business, international 
Fissiparous fortunes and family feuds.(family conglomerates in Asia)Business, international 
Fit to rule? (China's Deng Xiaoping, Russia's Boris Yeltsin, and president Suharto of Indonesia)(Editorial)(Cover Story)Business, international 
Fixing what is broking: why, but not when, Wall Street will go wired.(Technology in Finance survey)Business, international 
Flat as a pancacke: Japanese semiconductors.Business, international 
Flattened by Blair. (infighting in Tony Blair's Labor Party)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Floating the Tobin tax. (foreign exchange transactions)(Economics Focus)(Column)Business, international 
Food for thought: counterfeiting food is more lucrative than counterfeiting compact discs.Business, international 
Football diplomacy: Korea and Japan.(summit meeting spurred by World Cup negotiations goes well)Business, international 
For a bigger, better Union: the European Union needs to speed up its opening to the east.(Editorial)Business, international 
For a fair vote in Bosnia: delay might not bring a happier result.(Bosnia elections)(Editorial)Business, international 
Forgotten, but not gone; campaign issues: affirmative action. (California's 1996 Proposition 209)Business, international 
France's hot autumn.(1996)Business, international 
Free at last, to die: Russia. (upsurge in the death rate)Business, international 
Freedom of speech, a la francaise. (lead singers of rap group Nique Ta Mere banned from performing for insulting police)Business, international 
Freer than free: Microsoft v Netscape.(World Wide Web browsers)Business, international 
Free trade, fettered investment: should global trade rules treat foreign direct investment in the same way as conventional trade?(Economics Focus)Business, international 
Free-TV-for-all.(A Survey of Turkey)Business, international 
French nerves a-jangling: the 1997 budget is meant to lead France into Europe's currency union by 1999 - but it won't take much to blow the country off course.Business, international 
From couch potato to cybersurfer. (cable modems)Business, international 
From fur-trading to portfolios: Alaska.(economics of the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act)(American Survey)Business, international 
From labs to riches. (American venture capitalists)Business, international 
From major to minor. (petroleum industry)Business, international 
From riches to rags, and back again. (Gucci and Adidas)(Business in Europe)Business, international 
From the land of the dead. (Texas drought)(American Survey)Business, international 
Full-time activity: business services.(temporary employment agencies)Business, international 
Fuming on the farm: tobacco. (tobacco farming in Kentucky)(American Survey)Business, international 
Funds and games: recent scandals in the fund-management industry are in danger of making regulators over-react.(Editorial)Business, international 
Gangs in the heartland: crime.(American Survey)Business, international 
General Aideed. (Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aideed)(Obituary)Business, international 
General uncertainty.(Russian politics)(Editorial)Business, international 
Gentle giants: technology can create near-monopolies, that is sometimes a good thing.(Editorial)Business, international 
George Mackay Brown.(Scottish writer George Mackay Brown dead at 74)(Obituary)Business, international 
George Malcolm Thomson.(Obituary)Business, international 
German lessons. (German style of business management)(Management Focus)(Column)Business, international 
Germany drops the drivers. (automobile industry)Business, international 
Germany: gentlemen's disagreement. (meeting criteria for Europe's currency union)Business, international 
Germany pays for loose talk: China.(German parliament criticism of China's handling of tibet strains trade relations)Business, international 
Germany resolves to pursue its interests.(German foreign policy)Business, international 
Germany's herr handy. (VIAG's Georg Obermeier)(Face Value)Business, international 
Germany's lostpolitik. (push for stability in Central Europe)Business, international 
Gestures against reform.(insurgency in Latin America)Business, international 
Get a move on: Spain.(prime minister Jose Maria Anzar's economic reforms)Business, international 
Getting away with it: the Gambia.(coup d'etat)Business, international 
Getting closer?: financial regulation.(international banking and securities regulator organizations try to agree on standards)Business, international 
Getting redder: Japan.(Communists being elected in Japan)Business, international 
Getting rid of Karadzic. (Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic)(Editorial)Business, international 
Getting the government books in order. (mercosur survey)Business, international 
Getting the referendum bus back on the road.(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Getting together.(realignment of European defense industry)Business, international 
Getting together: South America.(free trade agreement)Business, international 
Give us a job: unemployment is the new Spanish curse.(Spain Survey)Business, international 
Glenn Loury's moment. (chairman of the Centre for New Black Leadership)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
Global accounting's roadblock.Business, international 
Global investing: advantage, Coke. (competitive advantages)Business, international 
Gloomy celebrants: Hungary.Business, international 
Gnomes at play. (investment bank CS Holding)Business, international 
Godliness and greenness: thou shalt not covet the Earth. (religion and environmentalism)Business, international 
Go, go, whoa: Brazil's economy.Business, international 
Going for silver: Ecuador.(close race for second place, and run-off, in Ecuador presidential elections)Business, international 
Going for the golden egg.(European Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System debuts)Business, international 
Going on down: Nigeria. (banking scandal and political corruption)(includes chronology of Nigeria's rulers since 1960)Business, international 
Going west: Dole in California.(Bob Dole's unpopularity in California)Business, international 
Gold rush: Brazil. (peasants demand rights to gold and land)(International)Business, international 
Goldsmith's glitter: running cities. (Indianapolis, Indiana mayor Stephen Goldsmith)Business, international 
Gold standard: Cannes Film Festival. (state of the film industry)Business, international 
Good and bad at game.(South African game preserves)Business, international 
Good breeding: South Korean conglomerates.Business, international 
Good intentions. (President Bill Clinton's foreign policy)Business, international 
Good money after bad: Japanese banks. (state of Japan's banking industry)Business, international 
Go to Dreamland, forget the mosques.(land development in Egypt)Business, international 
Grab that chance: Poland.(economic reform in Poland)Business, international 
Grand illusions: Serbia. (economic and psychological state of Serbia)Business, international 
Great game: Georgia.(improving economy in the country of Georgia)Business, international 
Great lakes of blood: Africa's Hutu-Tutsi wars may go on and on.(Editorial)Business, international 
Greed and fear: Thailand. (forced resignation of Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-archa)Business, international 
Green taxes are good taxes. (environmental taxes)(Editorial)Business, international 
Growing old expensively: are old people responsible for America's falling savings rate?(Economic Focus)(Column)Business, international 
Growing pains. (modern agriculture versus back to nature methods)Business, international 
Growing stars: Major League Soccer.Business, international 
Growing together. (reunified Germany)(German Survey)Business, international 
Grown-up politics: South Africa.(National Party and African National Congress both try to befriend Inkatha Freedom Party)Business, international 
Growth options: Citicorp. (impressive rise in bank's share price)Business, international 
Growth pains: leveraged buy-outs. (analyzing the trends in acquisitions and mergers)Business, international 
Guess who's coming to EMU?(countries wishing to join the European Monetary Union)Business, international 
Hail to the mighty pound. (British currency)Business, international 
Hallo again: Chile. (economic growth)Business, international 
Hands across the ice.(new Arctic Council formed)Business, international 
Harder than a garden party.(1996 Olympics)Business, international 
Hard to be young: students in debt. (American Survey)Business, international 
Harold Ickes, wrangler-in-chief. (White House deputy chief of staff)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
Has Cleveland mortgaged its tomorrows? (Ohio)(American Survey)Business, international 
Hashimoto's headache.(Japan's Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's post-election difficulties)Business, international 
Have truck, will travel: the Texas Senate race. (campaign of Democratic candidate for Senator, Victor Morales)(American Survey)Business, international 
Heal yourselves: the economics of health care.Business, international 
Heart of the matter: Russia.(health of president Boris Yeltsin)Business, international 
Hello, world.(Pres. Clinton's foreign policy concerns)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
Helmut Kohl: extra extra large, is the enduring Helmust Kohl a statesman or just a politician? (German chancellor)(Cover Story)Business, international 
Helmut Kohl's one-man band. (German chancellor's push for a single European currency)Business, international 
Here's how it can be done better. (direct democracy at the canton level in Switzerland)(Survey on Full Democracy)Business, international 
Herr Dobson's fishing trip.(Michael Dobson, CEO of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell)Business, international 
High jinks: America's stockmarkets.Business, international 
High tea: Charles Rennie Mackintosh.(retrospective, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, Scotland)Business, international 
Hizbullah in politics: Lebanon.Business, international 
Hogg's class act. (UK Tory party member and agriculture secretary, Douglas Hogg)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Holistic music: guitar makers.Business, international 
Hollowing out South Korea's corporations. (conglomerate corporations face liberalization)Business, international 
Home alone? Home shopping.Business, international 
Hong Kong's line-up: its next chief executive is in danger of ending up as China's poodle.(Editorial)Business, international 
Honourable death: cell suicide, once viewed as a biological anomaly, turns out to be crucial. How and why it happens is starting to be pieced together.Business, international 
Hoopla galore: James Bond at home. (James Bond Jamaica Festival)Business, international 
Hope and vainglory: space shuttles. (U.S., Japan plan new reusable space vehicles)Business, international 
Hope: a new class of drugs has brought the possibility that AIDS may now be a treatable disease. (triple-drug therapy)(Science and Technology)Business, international 
Hope for Chechnya.(possible peace with Russia)(Editorial)Business, international 
Hot property: will the state's land and buildings give privatisation a new lease of life?(selling off government buildings in the United Kingdom)Business, international 
Hot stuff.(analysing the genetic makeup of living organisms)(Science and Technology)Business, international 
How an astrophysicist became a media mogul.(Mieczyslaw Proszynski of Poland)Business, international 
Howard's rubbish: prisons.(UK Home Secretary Michael Howard pushes prison budget cuts, curbs reforms)Business, international 
How Bob Dole should fight.(Cover Story)(Editorial)Business, international 
How does your stockmarket grow?(Economic Focus)(Column)Business, international 
How Kirin lost its sparkle: Japanese beer.Business, international 
How not to pick a team (again).(President Clinton's 1996 cabinet appointments)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
How poor is China? New research suggests that poverty in China is more widespread, and the economy much smaller, than previously thought.Business, international 
How poor is India?(Asia)Business, international 
How safe is your bank?(Cover Story)(Editorial)Business, international 
How the French get Power: electricity companies.Business, international 
How to clean up: protecting the ozone layer may prove easier than curbing global warming.(Editorial)Business, international 
How to dig yourself out of a hole. (mining industry in Africa)(Sub-Saharan Africa Survey)Business, international 
How to run a referendum.(Column)Business, international 
How to succeed, how to fail: Indian reservations.(American Survey)Business, international 
How to win at poker, and other science lessons. (card shuffling and math research)Business, international 
How wrong is it going? (South Africa's post-apartheid transition)Business, international 
Http://manhattan: netting New York. (growing electronic publishing industry in New York, New York)Business, international 
Huddled masses: Hong Kong.(illegal immigration)Business, international 
Human rights and wrongs: Colombia.Business, international 
Human rights, political wrongs: Brazil.(President Fernando Cardoso issues human-rights reforms)Business, international 
Humbled, not hobbled: technopolist IBM.Business, international 
Hunting kwachas.(currencies from emerging countries)Business, international 
Hybrid CD-ROMs: will today's discs soon been yesterday's technology?(The Economist Review)Business, international 
I dislike what I fancy I feel.(treatment of visual hallucinations)Business, international 
If Indonesia erupts.(political instability there)(Editorial)(Cover Story)Business, international 
If Wall Street falters.... (possible stock market crash)(Editorial)Business, international 
Ill fed in ignorance. (malnutrition among India's children)Business, international 
Illusory: optical data storage.Business, international 
In a cavern, in a canyon ... water on the moon.Business, international 
Inching together: South Africa.(Inkatha party and African National Congress becoming more peaceful with each other)Business, international 
Incompatible matings: smell your mate - for your own health's sake, as well as your child's.Business, international 
In defence of prisons.Business, internationalMichael Howard
Independents' day. (plagiarism in film)Business, international 
India: all passion spent. (presidential election plagued by voter apathy and cynicism)Business, international 
India and Pakistan: going critical. (nuclear weapons production)Business, international 
Indian claims and Indian anger.(Canada)Business, international 
India's nationalists reach for power.Business, international 
India's toothbrush war. (conflict over rights to zigzag design for flexible toothbrush handles in India)Business, international 
Indonesia's endgame?(real opposition to President Suharto rises for the first time)Business, international 
"Inflation is dead." (globalization does not guarantee low inflation)(Editorial)Business, international 
In harmony at last.(new music)Business, international 
In: outsider art.Business, international 
In Rockefeller's shadow. (influence of Nelson Rockefeller legacy on the Republican Party)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
In Santer's style.(European Commission president Jacques Santer)Business, international 
In search of decent boundaries: black politics. (congressional redistricting)(American Survey)Business, international 
In step, at last: Venezuela.(International)Business, international 
Insurers, shaken and stirred: British financial services.Business, international 
Integration? You have to be joking: Middle East economies.Business, international 
In the machine: artificial consciousness.Business, international 
In the name of St Ronald.(1996 Republican National Convention)Business, international 
In the name of the family. (Democratic and Republican pro-family policies)Business, international 
In the shadow of the chaebol. (giant conglomerates of South Korea need balancing with small businesses)Business, international 
In the waiting room. (Turkey is frustrated in its attempts to join the European Union)(A Survey of Turkey)Business, international 
In to stay.(Great Britain and the European Union)(Editorial)Business, international 
Into the clouds again: why Labour's attempts to plan welfare reform keep going astray.Business, international 
Into the valley of Death. (British Conservative Party's campaign strategy)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Into unknown territory: New Zealand.(political and economic reform in New Zealand)Business, international 
Into Zaire. (international military intervention force)(Cover Story)(Editorial)Business, international 
In transit. (political structure of Spain)(Spain Survey)Business, internationalJohn Peet
Intrigue versus reform: Ukraine. (political conditions)Business, international 
Intuitively competitive: Intuit owns most of the market for financial software. In the last of our series, we look at its prospect in the age of on-line financial services. (Intuit Inc.)Business, international 
Invasion of the job-snatchers: fears that low-wage countries will eventually pinch many of the rich world's jobs are overdone.(Editorial)Business, international 
Investing in niceness: is shareholder activism really a movement for reforming society?(Face Value)(Column)Business, internationalRobert Monks
Investment: political capital.Business, international 
Investor power. (change in corporate governance in Europe)(Business in Europe)Business, international 
In vitro veritas: 3-D imaging.Business, international 
Irish mist: European Union. (upcoming EU summit meeting in Dublin, Ireland)Business, international 
Is inflation dead?(World Economic Survey)Business, international 
Is Iran the godfather?(U.S. considers Iran the leading terrorist state)Business, international 
Israel's close-run election.(Shimon Peres favored to win over Binyamin Netanyahu)Business, international 
Israel's new face.(Binyamin Netanyahu)(Editorial)Business, international 
Israel under new management. (newly-elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu)Business, international 
Is Russia different? (prospects for democracy and free enterprise)Business, international 
Is seeing believing? Occam's disposable razor.(14th-century Franciscan friar William of Occam)Business, international 
Is the model broken? (Germany's social-market economy)(Cover Story)Business, international 
Is the price right? European bank lending.Business, international 
Is the price right? (problems with pricing companies for privatization)Business, international 
Is there life on Mars? (evidence of possible life found on Martian meteorite)Business, international 
Italy starts again, again.(1996 elections)(Leaders)(Editorial)Business, international 
Italy's unappetising menu.(Italy's 1996 elections)Business, international 
Italy's weak right hand: a strong democracy needs a strong opposition.(Editorial)Business, international 
It can be done: growth in Africa.Business, internationalJeffrey Sachs
It can be done: race in Mississippi.(racial unity in Natchez, Mississippi)Business, international 
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can. (president Clinton's campaign)Business, international 
It hurt, but did it work: economic competitiveness. (Conservative Party's economic reforms)(Britain)Business, international 
It means government by the people, and we are the people.(Survey on Full Democracy)Business, international 
It's a toss up: Russia's stockmarket.(effects of upcoming presidential election)Business, international 
It's consumer banking, Ed. (customer-driven banking technology)(Technology in Finance survey)Business, international 
It's just a phase: medical imaging.Business, international 
It's only a game. (use of game theory in management)(Management Focus)(Column)Business, international 
It's the economy, stupid. (US presidential election forecasting)(Economics Focus)(Column)Business, international 
Japan: Asahara and O.J. (similarities between Japan's Shoko Asahara murder trial and the O.J. Simpson trial)Business, international 
Japan: blood ties. (scandal over HIV-tainted blood supplies)Business, international 
Japan edges forward. (defense policy)Business, international 
Japanese lessons: South Korean securities firms.Business, international 
Japan's debt-ridden future.Business, international 
Japan's Lou Gerstner. (Tadashi Sekizawa, head of Fujitsu)(Column)Business, international 
Japan's old gang comes back.(Liberal Democratic Party)Business, international 
Japan's opposition blunders. (New Frontier Party of Japan)Business, international 
Japan's sickly drug firms. (pharmaceutical industry)(Business)Business, international 
Japan's underworked marvel: Mazda.Business, international 
Jardine jolted: Asian finance.(Hong Kong securities firm Jardine Fleming under investigation)Business, international 
Jean Bedel Bokassa.(military dictator of Central African Republic)(Obituary)Business, international 
Jobs and wages revisited. (wage flexibility)(Economics Focus)(Column)Business, international 
Join the club: the BIS.(Bank for International Settlements)Business, international 
Junius Jayewardene.(Obituary)Business, international 
Justice for Jews, 50 years late. (pressure to restore property taken from Jews during second world war)Business, international 
Karl Kehrle.(Benedictine monk and beekeeper Karl Kehrle)(Obituary)Business, international 
Keeping cool in China. (how Fedders, an air conditioning unit company, worked its way into China)(Management Brief)Business, international 
Keep them out: France. (immigration to France)Business, international 
Kenneth Clarke's temptation.(increased spending by the UK's Conservative Party; Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Kenneth Clarke's triumph. (United Kingdom Chancellor Kenneth Clarke)(impact of United Kingdom Conservative party on attitudes to public spending)Business, international 
Kerrey's crusade: the Senate outlook. (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Bob Kerry seeks to win Democratic control of the Senate in 1996 elections)(American Survey)Business, international 
Keynes the man. (economist John Maynard Keynes is remembered)Business, internationalAlec Cairncross
Killing to be kind: why we ought to hunt big animals.Business, international 
King Solomon's mines (cont'd): mining in Africa.Business, international 
Kirched: digital television. (new TV service launched by the Kirch Group)Business, international 
Kiwis turn sour: New Zealand may have lost its appetite for further reform, but its economy is still a model for others.(Editorial)Business, international 
Kiyoshi Atsumi.(Japanese actor)(Obituary)Business, international 
Koji Kobayashi. (former president of NEC)(Obituary)Business, international 
Kurdistan? Which one do you mean? (Kurds in northern Iraq divide into two opposing factions)(International)Business, international 
Kurds, perpetual losers: Kurdish aspirations usually end up crushed. Could it be different this time?(Editorial)Business, international 
Labour and taxes: there will be no bigger issue at the next election.(Leaders)(Editorial)Business, international 
Labour and the poor: what can a modern left-of-centre government do to alleviate poverty?(United Kingdom)(Editorial)Business, international 
Labour's awkward one-man band.(Tony Blair of UK Labour Party)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Labour's election pledges: small beer. (Party's five modest election promises)Business, international 
Labour's plan for the utilities. (proposed taxation of utilities supported by Great Britain's Labour Party may not yield as much revenue as expected)Business, international 
Lamm leaps in.(Richard D. Lamm)(American Survey)Business, international 
Land for the landless: Brazil.(Movimento Sem Terra land-reform movement)Business, international 
Land of the big. (United States)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
Lang pulls the plug.(UK Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Ian Lang; government blocks electricity giant mergers)Business, international 
Language and electronics: the coming global tongue. (influences of the Internet on worldwide English usage)Business, international 
Latin America's backlash.(economic reform in Latin America)(Editorial)(Cover Story)Business, international 
Launching Deutsche Telekom.(privatization of the German telecommunication company)Business, international 
Laws of impotence. (chemical castration laws)(Editorial)Business, international 
Laying it on thin: desktop manufacturing.(three-dimensional printing of machine parts)Business, international 
Leadership by stealth. (critique of U.S. foreign policy)(Editorial)(Cover Story)Business, international 
Leadership on the cheap. (US role as chief mediator to the world)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
Lean and its limits. (philosophy of creating lean companies)(Management Focus)Business, international 
Learning from the Philippines. (democracy and economic growth)(Editorial)Business, international 
Learning how to lend. (information technology improves bank lending)(Technology in Finance survey)Business, international 
Learning to cope.(dealing with economic insecurity)(Editorial)(Cover Story)Business, international 
Leave it to the states. (US Supreme Court ruling on doctor-assisted suicide)(Editorial)Business, international 
Le crunch: beef has brought Tory divides about Europe to a head.Business, international 
Le Defi Americain, again: the American way of business is winning converts in continental Europe.(Cover Story)Business, international 
Left behind: Russia. (presidential campaigns)Business, international 
Left revived: Canada.(New Democratic Party gaining support)Business, international 
Legal cobweb: Egypt. (push to abolish cumbersome legal system)Business, international 
Less Intel inside: personal computers.(Intel lowers production of motherboards in favor of more microprocessor production)Business, international 
Less Lamm than hornet: a welcome irritant in America's presidential race.(Richard Lamm)(Editorial)Business, international 
Lessons of transition. (economic reform in Eastern and Central Europe)(Finance and Economics: Economic Focus)(Column)Business, international 
Lessons unlearnt: South Korea's banks are heading for trouble.(Industry Overview)Business, international 
Letter from the Black Sea: desperately seeking Dulcinea. (Turkish coastal cities)Business, international 
Let voters choose: Latin America's presidents should serve more than one term if that is what voters want.(Editorial)Business, international 
Levantine manoeuvres. (Israeli peace negotiations with Syria)(Editorial)Business, international 
Leviathan re-engineered. (applying management theory to the public sector)(Management Focus)Business, international 
Liberalism defined: the perils of complacency.Business, international 
Life at the democratic roots.(direct democracy at the community level in Switzerland)(Survey on Full Democracy)Business, international 
Life in the political wilderness: Japan.(new Democratic Party of Japan hopes for influential number of seats in coming election)Business, international 
Life on China's edge.(Ruili, China)Business, international 
Like old times: Japan. (the Liberal Democratic Party returns to power)Business, international 
Limbo, seen from hell. (deregulation of the banking industry)Business, international 
Limited imagination: drug firms.(malaria vaccine research)Business, international 
Lions and bureaucrats. (political machinations behind the Venice Biennale)Business, international 
Living with Islam.Business, international 
Living with risk: London School of Economics.Business, international 
Living with the occupation. (discrimination against Palestinians in Jerusalem, Israel)Business, international 
London comes back to life. (economic recovery)Business, international 
London's financial future: even if Britain remains outside a European monetary union, the city of London can thrive.(Editorial)Business, international 
Look out below; America's stockmarket has climbed to dizzying heights. Is it overvalued? And would a crash cause economic disaster?(Wall Street and the Economy)Business, international 
Loret Ruppe.(Peace Corps director)(Obituary)Business, international 
Loved and left. (proliferation of absentee landowners in Colorado)Business, international 
Love or money: Brazil.(a double murder in Brazil)Business, international 
Loves labour's won. (Royal Shakespeare Company's integrity)Business, international 
Macworld. (McDonald's International)Business, international 
Mad, bad and dangerous. (U.K.-European Union relations)(Editorial)(Cover Story)Business, international 
Mad John Bull disease. (need for changes to United Kingdom's policy towards Europe)Business, internationalNicholas Henderson
Magyar malls: Hungarian retailing.Business, international 
Making companies efficient: the year downsizing grew up.Business, international 
Making peace with Cambodia's devils.(government begins talks with the Khmer Rouge)Business, international 
Making waves: is information technology different from earlier innovations?(World Economy Survey)Business, international 
Maliciously yours. (caricature art, various artists, National Portrait Gallery, London, England)Business, international 
Malled: retailing in the Philippines.Business, international 
Manifesto destiny. (misunderstandings about the Republican Party's Contract with America)(Column)Business, international 
Manoeuvres: Canada.(classification of documents relating to Somalia)Business, international 
Man of destiny? (Antonio Di Pietro may establish strong presence in Italian politics)Business, international 
Maradona's downfall. (Argentinian footballer Diago Maradona's reputation wanes)Business, international 
Marcel Carne. (filmmaker)(Obituary)Business, international 
Marjorie Shostak.(anthropologist)(Obituary)Business, international 
Master and slave in Mauritania.Business, international 
Matrix for a modern monarchy: the House of Windsor has learnt the lesson that so many other corporations have had to learn in the 1990s, focus or die. (changes to the royal family of Great Britain)Business, international 
Max Factor.(cosmetic executive Francis Max Factor)(Obituary)Business, international 
May the best team win: the Euro 96 soccer championships.(England 1996 European soccer championship forecast)Business, international 
McCurrencies: where's the beef? How seriously should you take the Big Mac index?Business, international 
Meciar, Magyars and maps.(concern over minority rights in Slovakia; Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar)Business, international 
Medical spectroscopy: looking where the light don't shine.Business, international 
Meet Auntie Sam.(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
Meet cycling's extraterrestrial.(Miguel Indurain and the Tour de France)Business, international 
Mega-bucks: the sporting scene.(American Survey)Business, international 
Melvin Belli. (attorney)(Obituary)Business, international 
Menem and the market - and the others. (Argentine president Carlos Menem)Business, international 
Men's traditional culture.(female genital mutilation)Business, international 
Mess of porridge.(poor management of UK Prison Service)Business, international 
Me, too: Spain's regions.(seeking concessions)Business, international 
Mexico: fighting poverty with a credit card. (welfare reform)Business, international 
Mexico's great Salinas soap.(former president Carlos Salinas and his brother Raul)Business, international 
Microsoft's media mania. (Microsoft Corp's expansion into the media industry)(A Survey of the Software Industry)Business, international 
Microsoft steals the sunshine: new computers. (Sun Microsystems to introduce its new network computer)Business, international 
Minding the gaps: New York's budget.(American Survey)Business, international 
Mind my tank: Germany. (defense and finance ministers feud over details of plan for cutting government spending)(Europe)Business, international 
Mini mouse: Hollywood. (Walt Disney Co. plans to cut its movie production schedule)Business, international 
Missile wars: the arms trade. (relations between Europe and the US are strained over arms industry agreements)Business, international 
Mississippi rising.(influential Capitol Republican Sens. Trent Lott and Thad Cochran)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
Mistaken identity: State Street. (bank's transition into an information processing firm)Business, international 
Misunderstood youth: campaign issues: crime.(Bob Dole's proposals for fighting juvenile crime)Business, international 
Mob rule: Taiwan.Business, international 
Modern marvels: the 1996 Proms.(1996 Promenade Concerts on the British Broadcasting Corp.)Business, international 
Modern times, old trends. (globalization in the 19th century illuminates current trends)(Finance and Economics)Business, international 
Modesty ablaze: second-term Clinton?(Bill Clinton)(Cover Story)Business, international 
Mod versus God: Texas Republicans. (Texas Republican Party's biennial convention June 20-22, 1996)Business, international 
Mollywood and lunch-boxes: letter from Mumbai.(Bombay, India)Business, international 
Monetary policy, made to measure: how closely does central banks' behaviour follow simple monetary-policy rules? And how closely should it?(Economic Focus)Business, international 
Monetary-policy mysteries. (central banks' economic power)(Economics Focus)Business, international 
Money is just the start. (European monetary union)Business, international 
Money lost in space; there is no longer a good enough reason to build a manned space station.(Leaders)(Editorial)Business, international 
Monopolies and mergers omission: competition policy. (Britain)Business, international 
Monopolies in cyberspace: hands off Microsoft - for now.(Editorial)Business, international 
More justice is more just. (U.K. legal reform)(Editorial)Business, international 
More repression on Myanmar.(Editorial)Business, international 
Morning in Detroit.(financial problems of General Motors)Business, international 
Mouth-to-ear resuscitation: new poetry from America.Business, international 
Moving up, moving out. (income inequality among countries in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)(Economic Focus)Business, international 
Mr. Arafat, I presume: Israel.(Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat)Business, international 
Mr Greenspan's path to glory. (Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan)Business, international 
Mr Mawhinney's empty purse. (influence of political advertising in Great Britain; Tory Party chairman Brian Mawhinney)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Mr Wolfensohn's new clients. (World Bank CEO James Wolfensohn)Business, international 
Mr. Yeltsin's flexible friend. (International Monetary Fund)(Finance and Economics)Business, international 
Much ado. (Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum holds summit in Philippines)Business, international 
Much to do: Slovenia.(economic reform)Business, international 
Multiversal truths. (philosophical implications of quantum mechanics)Business, international 
Murder, he wrote. (economist Roger Bootle and his book on inflation 'The Death of Inflation')(Column)Business, international 
My news or yours: can personalisation save you from drowning in newsprint? (personalized newspapers on the Internet)(Review of Books and Multimedia)(Directory)Business, international 
My Wal-Mart 'tis of thee. (social aspects of Wal-Mart)(American Survey)Business, international 
Names writ in the water: the Internet. (international confusion over domain names on the Internet)Business, international 
Nations and their past: the uses and abuses of history.Business, international 
NATO acquires a European identity. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)Business, international 
Nervous in Singapore. (Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong postpones calling a general election)(Asia)Business, international 
Netanyahu brings the politics of low expectations. (Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu)Business, international 
Netanyahu's day.(Binyamin Netanyahu of Israel)Business, international 
Neudeutsch over alles.Business, international 
Never mind the language: in praise of swearing.(Editorial)Business, international 
Never say die. (local councils vs national parties in UK)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
New shock about mental health. (insanity in the UK; humor)(Editorial)Business, international 
New tasks for the aiders.(charities have little or no help from government in international relief)Business, international 
New year's bawl: takeovers. (fight to control Trinidad's largest bank, Republic Bank)Business, international 
New York's finest: South Africa. (former New York City Police Chief William Bratton provides South Africa advice on crime-fighting)(International)Business, international 
Nintendo wakes up: video games. (comeback by beleaguered video game company)Business, international 
Nnamdi Azikiwe.(first president of Nigeria)(Obituary)Business, international 
No bears in sight: Central Europe's stockmarkets.Business, international 
No end of plagues. (spreading of diseases)(Sub-Saharan Africa Survey)Business, international 
Noises off: Broadway's Tony awards.Business, international 
No Ken do: Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, Kenneth Clarke, must resist calls from Tory backbenchers to deliver dramatic cuts in taxes.(Editorial)Business, international 
Nomura bravura: Czech banking. (Japanese securities firm expresses interest in Czech holdings)Business, international 
No paint, no gain: product liability. (need for tort reform)Business, international 
No peace yet for Lebanon.Business, international 
Normal intrigue: Russia.(presidential leadership in Russia)Business, international 
No sanctuary: black politics (1).(African-American church burnings in Southern states)Business, international 
Not all bad: Bosnia's elections.Business, international 
Not all hot air: car engines. (design)Business, international 
Not awakening the dead. (institutional investors)(Management Focus)(Column)Business, international 
Not booted: the House. (1996 congressional elections)(American Survey)Business, international 
Not clever enough: will intelligent "humanoid" robots ever exist? The answer to that question probably lies in biology, not mechanics.Business, international 
Not cricket: European Monetary Union. (membership and nonmembership by European countries)Business, international 
Not much to smile about; talks on Northern Ireland's future are in trouble even before they begin.(Britain)Business, international 
Not over till it's over: affirmative action in California. (proposition 209)(American Survey)Business, international 
Not quite normal: Haiti.Business, international 
Not quite the right moral: European entrepreneurs. (Business Objects as a model for other European high-tech firms)Business, international 
Not required. (controversy over minimum reserve requirements for European commercial banks)Business, international 
Not so special: Bavaria. (German state)Business, international 
Not-so-wondrous pensions: Chile.Business, international 
No turning back: despite this week's bomb in Saudi Arabia, and apparent setbacks in Israel, America must continue its efforts in the Middle East.(Editorial)Business, international 
Now, bondmania. (bull market in bonds)Business, international 
Now for action: Mexico.(electoral reforms)Business, international 
Now for the long haul: European Union.Business, international 
Nowhere to go but up: Aeroflot. (Russian airline)Business, international 
Now I think I'll reinvent the wheel; can Ben Rosen, the man who helped turn personal computers into consumer products, do the same for electric cars?(Face Value)Business, international 
Now tell the truth. (Pres. Clinton) (Cover Story)(Editorial)Business, international 
Now you see him....(Russian president Boris Yeltsin)Business, international 
Odd states out: affirmative action. (American Survey)Business, international 
Of bankers and bullets: Russian banking.(Finance and Economics)Business, international 
Of beef, bushels, and bonds.(US Treasury to issue inflation-linked bonds)Business, international 
Of cranes, aid and unintended consequences. (regional economic disparities)Business, international 
Of Harley-Davidson and freedom.(biker groups and American politics; Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
Of MiGs and microchips.(Larry Ellison of Oracle versus Bill Gates of Microsoft; Face Value)(Column)Business, international 
Of processes, pills and profits. (pharmaceutical industry)(Management Focus)(Column)Business, international 
OF spandex and software. (Michael Cowpland's Corel buys WordPerfect from Novell)(Face Value)(Column)Business, international 
Of springs, crowds, crinkles and the price of the yen. (use of fractal mathematics)Business, international 
Oh what a lovely millenium bug. (programming flaw that prevents computers from acknowledging the year 2000)Business, international 
Oil change on the buses. (improving environmental impact of exhaust emissions from buses in London, England)Business, international 
Old and new in Kyushu. (strong economic growth for Japanese island of Kyushu)Business, international 
Old news ain't beat yet. (older and more tradional news sources are still effective outlets for politicians)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
Old Tories, old danger. (U.K. Conservative Party's pre-election economic policies)(Editorial)Business, international 
Olivetti self-destructs. (investor-inspired management shakeup)(Editorial)Business, international 
On a wing and a prayer: aviation in Russia.Business, international 
One big dump: nuclear waste. (proposed Yucca Mountain Project)Business, international 
One Europe, up to a point: Germany and the Union. (European Union)Business, international 
One kiss is not enough: the campaign in Florida. (presidential campaign)(American Survey)Business, international 
One small step: Labour's training policy. (job training)Business, international 
On-line capitalism. (selling shares via Internet)Business, international 
On the brink? Myanmar. (1996 student protests)Business, international 
On the edge: New York's homeless.(American Survey)Business, international 
On their uppers: stockmarkets. (rising markets in the US and Europe)Business, international 
On the road.(the 1996 US presidential campaign)Business, international 
On the rocks: Angolan diamonds. (DeBeers in post-war Angola)Business, international 
On trial. (war crimes)(Dusan Tadic, first Serb to stand trial for war crimes)Business, international 
Opening up the state coffers: South Korean industry. (sale of state-owned businesses is moving slowly)Business, international 
Opportunity knocks.(confusion in United Kingdom Labor Party over pursuit of equality)Business, international 
Oranges and lemons: the limits of farm reform.(Survey - Cuba)Business, international 
Or not, as the case may be: reforming Japan's Finance Ministry.Business, international 
Outflanked: conventional forces in Europe.Business, international 
Out of the ward: health in Eastern Europe.Business, international 
Over the counter or over a barrel? (problems facing foreigners who invested in Japan's over-the-counter market)Business, international 
Over the top.(Israel's bombing of Lebanon)(Cover Story)(Editorial)Business, international 
Pachinkoholism: Japan.Business, international 
Paddy's taxing time.(UK Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Paintings at the pictures: film and art.(Hall of Mirrors exhibition, Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA)Business, international 
Pakistan's dismal cycle; it will take more than another election to break it.(Leaders)(Editorial)Business, international 
Palestine by proclamation. (declaration of independent state)(Editorial)Business, international 
Paradox lost: those elusive productivity gains.(World Economy Survey)Business, international 
Party tricks: Brazil.(Social Democratic Party)Business, international 
Passing on the risks: banks are making increasing use of a new type of derivative to reduce their exposure to the oldest of all financial risks.Business, international 
Paul Erdos.(mathematician)(Obituary)Business, international 
Paul Touvier. (French Nazi)(Obituary)Business, international 
Peace in Chechnya? Humiliation doe Russia, chance for Alexander Lebed.(Editorial)Business, international 
Peace now: Latin American borders.Business, international 
Peer pressure. (reforms needed for the House of Lords)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Perot had a little Lamm. (presidential candidate Richard Lamm)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
Peter Ludwig.(art collector)(Obituary)Business, international 
Pianissimo: Italian privatisation.Business, international 
Pick-up lines: cruising.(cruise ship lines)(Industry Overview)Business, international 
Picturing Tony Blair's premiership. (Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Pierre Franey.(French chef)(Obituary)Business, international 
Pipe dreams in Central Asia: energy.(Caspian Pipeline Consortium)Business, international 
Please adjust your set. (Russia's struggling manufacturing industries)Business, international 
Please dare to fail. (new European stockmarket)(Editorial)Business, international 
Plodding, nodding: foreign policy.(American Survey)Business, international 
Poison politics: Congress.(American Survey)Business, international 
Policing the cops: crime and punishment. (police corruption in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)Business, international 
Policy debate: Japanese insurance. (the effects of deregulation on foreign firms)Business, international 
Polish off the family silver: European privatisation.Business, international 
Political v fiscal balance: India.Business, international 
Politics into economics won't go. (economic issues in the 1996 presidential campaign)Business, international 
Polls to nowhere. (problems with elections in Africa)Business, international 
Pompe and circumstance: behind many a French moderniser lurks an old-fashioned Gallic pragmatist. Philippe Jaffre shows that this pairing can work. (Elf Aquitaine CEO)(Face Value)(Column)Business, international 
Pop culture on CD-ROM: shovelware.(Review of Books and Multimedia) (Software Review)Business, international 
Post-operation Russia. (Pres Boris Yeltsin's priorities in his second term)(Editorial)Business, international 
Poverty amid plenty: Japan. (homelessness)(Asia)Business, international 
Poverty and poor politics.(Bob Dole and welfare reform)(American Survey)Business, international 
Poverty in the treasure-house. (financial problems at British Museum)Business, international 
Power and the people. (constitutional reforms)(A Survey of Britain's New Politics)Business, international 
Prepare the wobblescopes.(instruments that can sense gravitational waves in space)Business, international 
Preparing for prime time.(flat-screen TVs)Business, international 
Press ganged: Turkey. (press censorship)Business, international 
Pressure: Israel.(war with Hezbollah puts pressure on Israeli elections)Business, international 
Primary problems: investment in Africa.Business, international 
Privacy please: infrastructure in Latin America.(privatization)Business, international 
Private ideas for public policy. (proposals to minimize or privatize the banking insurance system)(A Survey of International Banking)Business, international 
Private means: tackling currency crises.(in developing countries)Business, international 
Productivity revisited: how well, or badly, is America's economy doing?(Editorial)Business, international 
Profits of doom. (corporate profits and labor compensation)(World Economy Survey)Business, international 
Progressives all: voter initiatives. (1996 elections)(American Survey)Business, international 
Promotion battle: investment banking.Business, international 
Property's sad storeys.(worldwide commercial-property investment)Business, international 
Protracted sick leave in the Kremlin: with Boris Yeltsin out of action, Russia is entering a dangerous period.Business, international 
Provocation and response.(missile attacks on Iraq)(Cover Story)Business, international 
Publish and be ideologically damned: China.Business, international 
Pushmepullyou. (searching the World Wide Web)Business, international 
Push, pull and paralysis in India.Business, international 
Putsch and shove in Russia. (Russian presidential elections)Business, international 
Putting economics behind the wheel. (charging for automobile use)(Survey: Living with the Car)Business, international 
Putting his foot in it: Turkey. (Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan's visit to Libya)Business, international 
Puzzling secrets: cryptography. (creating mathematics to create codes for numbers)Business, international 
Quentin Davies's sheep. (investigation of corruption allegations against UK public service minister David Willetts)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Quid pro quo: the Lippo affair. (LippoBank investigated for role in alleged illegal campaign contributions)(American Survey)Business, international 
Quietly does it: Russia's small businesses.Business, international 
Raining on Dole's parade. (presidential candidate Bob Dole's campaign loses momentum following loss of debate against Bill Clinton)(American Survey)Business, international 
Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters; the house of Japan's democracy is still only half-built.(Tomorrow's Japan)Business, international 
Reach for the sky. (Jean Pierson's management of Airbus Industrie)(Face Value)Business, international 
Reaching for the stars: satellite television in Japan.Business, international 
Reacting to terrorism(Editorial)Business, international 
Read all about it: books in Europe.Business, international 
Ready, steady, grow?(Robert Dole's economic policy)Business, international 
Real virtuality: sonoluminescence.Business, international 
Real, yes; but is it still magic? Latin American fiction.Business, international 
Reasons to be cheerful. (economic outlook for 1997)(Editorial)Business, international 
Reasons to cut off Mr. Mugabe: African telecoms. (telecommunications industry)Business, international 
Rebel with a cause. (Sofmap founder Kei Suzuki)(Face Value)(Company Profile)Business, international 
Rebuilding: construction in Japan. (looming industry recovery)Business, international 
Reconstructed: South Africa. (reconstruction and development program abandoned)Business, international 
Red tape around the world. (strong competition between leading law firms)Business, international 
Re-engineering peer review: the Internet. (how scientists can use the Internet)Business, international 
Re-engineering the MBA. (Dean of the Wharton Business School Thomas Gerrity seeks to reform business schools)(Face Value)Business, international 
Reform in need of reform: Canada. (Reform Party)Business, international 
Reform won't change Japan after all. (political reform)Business, international 
Regional grumps: Russia. (opposition parties)Business, international 
Regionalism rampant.(Spain Survey)Business, international 
Reinventing Michael Portillo. (UK Tory defense minister)(Column)Business, internationalBagehot
Rejecting their ancestors the Gauls: the Muslims in France.(Moreover)Business, international 
Remodelling? Germany.(economic reforms)Business, international 
Restoring Germany's shine.(welfare and labor reform)(Cover Story)(Editorial)Business, international 
Resurrecting history. (Spanish art, history, and the 1936-1939 civil war)Business, international 
Retired, hurt?(Michael Heseltine could replace John Major as Prime Minister; Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Retirement revolution. (Chile's privatized pension system as model for other countries)Business, international 
Retribution for reproduction.(copyright piracy in China)Business, international 
Retrogrettable occurrences. (retroelement research update)Business, international 
Revving up: Latin America's car industry.Business, international 
Richard Daley's plantings: city government. (Chicago, IL, Mayor Richard M. Daley)Business, international 
Riding a cart and bullocks through Indian capitalism.(new rules on corporate takeovers in India)Business, international 
Riding high. (performance pay for jockeys)Business, international 
Rigging the market: politics and oil. (how the price of oil is affected by political wrangling)Business, international 
Right destination, wrong route.(British Airways, American Airlines propose alliance)Business, international 
Rights at issue: corporate finance. (new stock issue regulations in the United Kingdom)Business, international 
Rightward ho! The Louisiana Senate race.(David Duke runs for Louisiana seat in the US Senate)Business, international 
River dance: Moldova.(possible reunification)Business, international 
Roadblocks: Palestinians and Israelis.Business, international 
Roadkill: Russia's cars. (automobile industry)Business, international 
Robert Bourassa.(former Quebec premier)(Obituary)Business, international 
Roboflops.(failures in robot technology)Business, international 
Roll on the automated highway. (managing traffic flow)(Survey: Living with the Car)Business, international 
Room service: Robert Kuok. (Asian hotels operator)Business, international 
Rosaries and revolvers. (local and national politics)(Back on the Road: A Survey of the Philippines)Business, international 
Row over? American, China and Pakistan.Business, international 
Ruling India: India's politicians need not be ashamed of their democracy, only of themselves.(Leaders)(Editorial)Business, international 
Running Scared. (Prime Minister John Major stands to lose next general election to Labor's Tony Blair)(Britain: Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Russia drifts. (Boris Yeltsin's health)(Editorial)Business, international 
Russia drifts. (political leadership)(Editorial)Business, international 
Russia eyes the world.Business, international 
Russian land reform: selling the sod.Business, international 
Russian railways: side tracked.Business, international 
Russia's daunting future. (Boris Yeltsin re-elected president)(Europe)Business, international 
Russia's fear-worse factor. (economic conditions not likely to aid re-election of Russian President Boris Yeltsin)Business, international 
Russia's loose howitzers. (national security advisor Alexander Lebed)Business, international 
Russia snarls: NATO.(Russia and the NATO expansion)Business, international 
Russia's power puzzle: with less than a month to go before the presidential election, electoral arithmetic and hints of backstage deals are engulfing the Kremlin.Business, international 
Russia's run-off ructions.(1996)Business, international 
Russia's turbulent calm. (Europe) (speculations surrounding the future of Alexander Lebed and Russia)Business, international 
Russia the not-so-great.(Russian political wrangling)(Editorial)Business, international 
Rwanda: punishing the guilty, maybe. (genocide)Business, international 
Sad Cyprus: but it is too good to give up hope.(Editorial)Business, international 
Saddamned.(US policy toward Iraq)(Editorial)Business, international 
Saddam's hungry hostages.(Iraqi president may deal with the UN to ease sanctions so Iraq can buy food and medicine)Business, international 
Saddam thumbs his nose, Barzani strolls to power.(Saddam Hussein; Kurd faction leader Massoud Barzani)Business, international 
Safari-bound. (wildlife conservation)(Sub-Saharan Africa Survey)Business, international 
Safe banking. (reforming banking regulation)(A Survey of International Banking)Business, international 
Safe in whose hands?(Britain's National Health Service)Business, international 
Sam Nunn junior: the Georgia Senate race. (candidate Max Cleland)Business, international 
Sane and sober: Ecuador.(President Abdala Bucaram)Business, international 
Saved: Liberia.Business, international 
Saving Canada's wilderness - perhaps. (Banff National Park)Business, international 
Saving children from sex. (paedophilia)(Editorial)Business, international 
Saving Parliament. (parliamentary reform in the UK)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Saxony: jealous sisters. (cities of Leipzig and Dresden)Business, international 
Saying boo to Helms-Burton: Cuba. (US-Cuba relations)Business, international 
Scents and sensibility. (Avon Products)Business, international 
Schizophrenia: BBC. (the British Broadcasting Corp. is negotiating a deal with Tele-Communications Inc.)Business, international 
Schmaltzy days are here again: the performing arts are awash with nostalgia in Germany and Austria.Business, international 
Science does it with feeling. (philosophy of the mind-body connection)Business, international 
Scientayatollogy: Germany and the United States.(relations between the United States and Germany)Business, international 
Scots internationalism.(performing arts festivals)Business, international 
Scrap workers: French cars. (French automobile manufacturers)Business, international 
Search and destroy. (nuclear nonproliferation)(Editorial)Business, international 
Seas of troubles.(China expands its South China Sea island claims)Business, international 
Second thoughts: China's economy. (political leadership disagrees about economic progress)Business, international 
Second thoughts: mad cows. (resolution of the mad-cow disease issue)Business, international 
Secret pleasures: Taiwan and China. (relations may be improving)(Asia)Business, international 
Secrets and the prize. (Nobel prize winning economists)(Economics Focus)(Column)Business, international 
Seeing stars: even if the beef war ends, the consequences for John Major will not.Business, international 
See it and live: letter from Naples.(revival of Naples, Italy)Business, international 
See no evil. (Germany's Party of Democratic Socialism poses threat)Business, international 
Self-Governing Americans: the land of the free. (anti-government sentiment)Business, international 
Selling fuel cells: electric cars.(developing fuel cell powered automobiles)Business, international 
Selling PCs like bananas: Dell Computer.Business, international 
Seven years on: Romania.Business, international 
Sexual speculations: the electorate. (gender gap in 1996 U.S. politics)Business, international 
Shades of loyalty: can the chameleon tendency remain Hong Kong's saving grace?(China's takeover of Hong Kong)Business, international 
Shake, rattle, and roll the dice: global reinsurance.Business, international 
Shall I compare thee to a day of summer? (arguments against pseudo-rules of English grammar)Business, international 
Sharing the spoils. (compensation through profit-sharing)(Economics Focus)Business, international 
Sharks and alligators: Liberia.(ethnic war)Business, international 
Sharp suits: American venture capital. (California's 1996 Proposition 211)Business, international 
Shin Kanemaru.(former official of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party)(Obituary)Business, international 
Shooting at inflation: in most economies, interest rates will soon need to be raised, not cut.(Editorial)Business, international 
Shoot to kill: central bankers. (direction of economic policy)Business, international 
Shopping again: Japanese clothing makers.(Business)Business, international 
Shopping and thinking. (mergers and acquisitions)(Management Focus)(Column)Business, international 
Shopping on the Internet: and a wary Christmas to you. (electronic commerce)Business, international 
Short circuit. (British power company mergers)Business, international 
Should Asia be copied? (the U.S. and East Asian economies)Business, international 
Showing Europe's firms the way.(global economy)(Cover Story)(Editorial)Business, international 
Sign here: electronic commerce.(Verisign teams with Visa to create digital signatures)Business, international 
Silence of the calves.(slaughter of British cattle infected with mad cow disease)Business, international 
Silly moos: made cow disease.Business, international 
Singapore's sheepdog trials.Business, international 
Single market, single-minded.(impact of the European Single Market)Business, international 
Sit up and pay attention; election issues: education.(1996 presidential candidates' education policies)Business, international 
Sky lights: German television. (plans to launch digital television in Germany)Business, international 
Slicing the cake: what is the relationship between inequality and economic growth?(Economic Focus)Business, international 
Slick Willie, honest Bob. Campaign issues: character. (Bob Dole's lack of use of character issue against Pres Clinton)(American Survey)Business, international 
Slinging the silver spoons: the Massachusetts Senate race.(American Survey)Business, international 
Small beginnings. (lack of entrepreneurship in Europe)(Business in Europe)Business, international 
Smaller cars, bigger profits? European cars. (micro-automobiles produced by Swatch, Mercedes-Benz joint ventures and others)Business, international 
Small farms, big portions. (economic policies damage farmers in developing countries)Business, international 
Smashing the lock. (1996 presidential race)Business, international 
Softened brains: Europe's conference. (Britain and European Union)Business, international 
Soft hearts, hard heads in the new Germany. (inherited assets)(Face Value)Business, international 
So goes the nation: the race in Kansas. (Republicans may lose ground to Democrats in Kansas)(American Survey)Business, international 
So little done, so much to do. (developed world has left Africa to save itself)(Sub-Saharan Africa survey)Business, international 
So long as it's clear who's in charge.(direct democracy in Switzerland)(Survey of Full Democracy)Business, international 
Somalia - still breathing, in its way.Business, international 
Some margin for error: campaign issue: opinion polls. (polls predicting 1996 presidential election outcome may be less accurate than many believe; includes related article on presidential campaign)(American Survey)Business, international 
Someone else's doing, someone else's problem.(Tutsi rebellion in eastern Zaire)Business, international 
Something nasty in the vault? Swiss banking secrecy.(investigation of alleged deposits made by Holocaust victims)Business, international 
Something new in Italy. (left-leaning government in Italy)Business, international 
Something worth watching, at last.(European digital television)Business, international 
So that's democracy? (controversy surrounds election in Zambia)Business, international 
South Africa looks back.(investigation of apartheid crimes in South Africa)Business, international 
South Africa looks for truth and hopes for reconciliation.(International)Business, international 
South Africans return to Mozambique. (revival of trade and investment between the two African countries)Business, international 
South African wimmin.(women's rights)Business, international 
South Africa's race to find a permanent constitution.(one-day strike called to protest drafting of new constitution)Business, international 
South-East Asia's wealth gap.(Asia)Business, international 
So what was the fuss about?(consolidation of advertising industry)Business, international 
Sowing a high-tech crop.Business, international 
Spiralling to a new vaccine.(DNA vaccines)Business, international 
Spiro Agnew. (former U.S. vice president)(Obituary)Business, international 
Spoiling world trade. (World Trade Organization should address the regional trade deals that threaten global trade)(Editorial)(Cover Story)Business, international 
Springtime means wartime: Turkey.(Kurdish Workers Party PKK and the Turkish government)Business, international 
Squashed by Europe.(UK Foreign Minister Malcolm Rifkind's remarks on European Economic and Monetary Union plans)Business, international 
Squashed over EMU. (UK Prime minister John Major and Labour Party leader Tony Blair on European monetary union)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Squeeze, gently: Intel and microchips.(Intel's domination of the microchip industry; The Other Technopolists, part 1)Business, international 
Squeezing the Tories' tender bits. (potential impact of electoral reform in the U.K.)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Stable prices and fast growth: just say no. (monetary policy in prosperous countries)Business, internationalPaul Krugman
Standard bearer: African banking. (Standard Bank's expansion into the rest of Africa)Business, international 
Standard raisers: emerging markets. (international banking standards)Business, international 
Starting again in Ulster. (Northern Ireland)(Editorial)Business, international 
States of denial: South-East Asian economies.(Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia)Business, international 
Statistical guessing games. (consumer price index)Business, international 
Statistical shock: East Asian economies.Business, international 
Stavros Niarchos.(shipping tycoon)(Obituary)Business, international 
Staying ahead in the Philippines.Business, international 
Staying on in Malaysia.(Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad)Business, international 
Steady as she goes. (US economy)Business, international 
Steady Eddie. (Pres Fidel Ramos)(Back on the Road: A Survey of the Philippines)Business, international 
Steaming: American railways. (consolidation among railroad companies)Business, international 
Steel in Asia: Why Japan is losing its metal.Business, international 
Sterilised in Alberta.(forced-sterilization victims bring lawsuits against the province)Business, international 
Still a virtual reality. (drawbacks of immersive virtual reality)Business, international 
Stones from the sticks? Russia's local elections.(1996)Business, international 
Stop smoking!(litigation and federal regulation pressure the cigarette industry)(The Cigarette Wars)(Cover Story)Business, international 
Stop the world, I want to get off. (economic changes)(World Economy Survey)Business, international 
Straightening things out: sickle-cell disease.Business, international 
Straits of Taiwan: futures exchanges. (introduction of futures and options in Taiwan stock market)Business, international 
Strange bedfellows in Asia.(United States policy toward Asia)Business, international 
Striking the GONG. (Global Oscillation Network Group's solar research)Business, international 
Strong brew: Myanmar. (military junta)Business, international 
Stuck on welfare.(Bill Clinton and welfare reform; Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
S(ub)lime.(the transformations of bacteria)Business, international 
Sub-Saharan Africa: inching ahead. (economic growth reports)Business, international 
Suffering for art: explorations. (body art)Business, international 
Sumitomo's metal fatigue.(copper trading)(Editorial)Business, international 
Sumo wrestling: ringleaders? (allegations of corruption in Japan)Business, international 
Superglue.(French conglomerate Lagardere Groupe; Face Value)(Column)Business, international 
SuperPsionic: mobile computing.(palmtop computer maker Psion)Business, international 
Surprise: Czech Republic. (parliamentary election)Business, international 
Swapping parts: Japan's stockmarket.Business, international 
Swifter, higher, stronger, dearer: sport and television.Business, international 
Switch it off; as broadcasting channels proliferate, state-subsidised television faces an impossible challenge. It should be allowed to wither away.(Editorial)Business, international 
Switzerland and the Jews: some lessons learned.(banking; political asylum)(Editorial)Business, international 
System failure. (systemic bank failure)(A Survey of International Banking)Business, international 
Take an axe: preserving the woods. (referendum to restrict clearcutting in Maine)(American Survey)Business, international 
Taken to the air. (wireless access to the Internet)Business, international 
Take three: NATO enlargement. (addition of countries to North Atlantic Treaty Organization)Business, international 
Taking the pledge. (need for changes in European business environment)(Business in Europe)Business, international 
Taking turns: India.(Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may fail to form a government)Business, international 
Tales from the FAR side. (fundamental asset risk)(Finance and Economics: Economic Focus)(Column)Business, international 
Tales from the new Jerusalem.(Israel under its new president Benjamin Netanyahu)Business, international 
Talked off?(stall in open skies treaty between UK and US)Business, international 
Talk is cheap (and so is the dollar).Business, international 
TARGET practice: banks and monetary union.(Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross-settlement Express Transfer)Business, international 
Teaching spires: universities should banish the notion of "publish or perish," stop churning out second-rate research and put more effort into teaching.(Editorial)Business, international 
Teatime. (new Java start-up company Dimension x)(A Survey of the Software Industry)Business, international 
Teleconglomeration.(loosening regulations against foreign telecommunications companies)(Editorial)Business, international 
Tele-haves and have-nots.(developing countries make use of technological innovations)(Editorial)Business, international 
Telephone Bill. (IteliData Chairman Bill Gorog)(Column)(Company Profile)Business, international 
Televisa: the plot thickens. (Mexican TV company)Business, international 
Tempestuous: climate. (international political wrangling over the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions)Business, international 
Temporarily tight in Tbilisi: the countries of the former Soviet Union seem to have made remarkable cuts in their budget deficits. Or have they?Business, international 
Tender shoots: Bosnia. (effects on relations with Bonsia since prime minister Rajko Kasagic was dismissed)Business, international 
Terminal condition: Japan's oil industry.Business, international 
Terrible twins: European banking.(Credit Lyonnais and Banco di Napoli rescue plans)Business, international 
Terrific Pacific.(Association of South-East Asian Nations)Business, international 
Terror: Peru.(political hostages)Business, international 
Textbooks on CD-ROM: multimedia in education is better for college students than for school tots.(Review of Books and Multimedia)Business, international 
Thai anxiety: the new government needs to restore faith in the management of the economy.(Editorial)Business, international 
Thailand's familiar aspirations. (six-party coalition government in Thailand)Business, international 
That tricky euro: Germany.(budget deficit in Germany)Business, international 
The 15 at sixes and sevens: Europe's foreign policy.Business, international 
The $5 billion swapshops: timeshare holidays.Business, international 
The 5% solution. (failure to reach agreement on electoral reform in Mexico)Business, international 
The alternatives: origins.(origin of life)Business, international 
The arguments that won't wash.(objections to direct democracy)(Survey on Full Democracy)Business, international 
The art of pit-stop management. (Formula One auto racing)(Face Value)(Column)Business, international 
The Asian way? Trade and development.Business, international 
The avengers: post-beef-war Europe. (European Union)Business, international 
The banging door: West Bank and Gaza.(Israel's blockade of West Bank and Gaza)Business, international 
The bankers marched in two by two....(international banks)Business, international 
The Belfast of Asia: Pakistan.(fiscal woes; political violence)Business, international 
The best route to welfare reform: Wisconsin's plan in flawed, but essential.(Editorial)Business, international 
The big fight.(Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange vie for emerging-market contracts)Business, international 
The big squeeze: monetary union, if it happens, will make most of Europe's derivatives exchanges redundant; which ones will survive?Business, international 
The birth of a new species. (smaller software companies become major players in the Internet industry)(A Survey of the Software Industry)Business, international 
The bloodless war on cancer. (new drugs attack vessels that feed cancer cells)Business, international 
The bombing of Arabia.(US air base in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia bombed, killing 19 Americans)Business, international 
The breezer, the gasper, and the also-rans. (US presidential campaign)(American Survey)Business, international 
The bugs that live in bugs. (bacteria in insects)Business, international 
The buying and selling of Brazil Inc: Brazilian takeovers.Business, international 
The case for wait and see. (Britain's participation in the single European currency)(Editorial)Business, international 
The cat is deceased, maybe: quantum physics. (Schrodinger's cat; decoherence research)Business, international 
The Catron County rebellion: control the land.(Catron County, New Mexico)(American survey)Business, international 
The Cecil Rhodes of chocolate-chip cookies: how to be a good "corporate citizen" in a world of globalised markets. (Sara Lee CEO John Bryan)(Face Value)(Column)Business, international 
The centre rules: South Africa.Business, international 
The Chechens take over.Business, international 
The China line: business in Hong Kong.(mainline Chinese involvement in Hong Kong's industries)Business, international 
The China syndrome. (World Economy Survey) (information technology and global capital flows)Business, international 
The city of God, or someone. (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)Business, international 
The competitive depreciation of the yen. (decline against the US dollar)(By Invitation)Business, internationalFred Bergsten
The Cossacks: a super-ethnos in Russia's ribs.Business, international 
The cows come home to roost. (mad cow disease)Business, international 
The crumbling Republican front. (GOP appears to have lost cohesion and direction)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
The curse of oil: Venezuela.(windfall may stifle market reforms)Business, international 
The C-word strikes back. (competitiveness of national economies)(Economics Focus)(Column)Business, international 
The dangers of Willetts's new Toryism. (Cabinet office junior minister David Willetts)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
The deficit game: Europe's currency.Business, international 
The democratic habit. (political progress)(Sub-Saharan Africa Survey: Africa for the Africans)Business, international 
The deregimentation job at home: a new economy for the new century.(Tomorrow's Japan)Business, international 
The discreet charm of provincial Asia.(foreign investment)Business, international 
The dragon at the window.(Hong Kong's 1997 return to China)Business, international 
The Dutch touch. (ABN Amro's 1992 acquisition of Hoare Govett)(Management Brief)Business, international 
The eagle has claws. (1996 Reform Party national convention)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
The earth's hidden life: weird, perhaps, but quite wonderful too.Business, international 
The east goes west.(right wing factions in former communist countries in Europe)Business, international 
The economics of the Internet: too cheap to meter?(Cover Story)Business, international 
The electric-motor man. (Johnson Electric owner Patrick Wang)(Company Profile)(Column)Business, international 
The elusive golden apple. (the divergent economies of east and west Turkey)(A Survey of Turkey)Business, international 
The end of a dividing line.(direct democracy in Switzerland)(Survey on Full Democracy)Business, international 
The end of aerial apartheid: South Africa's airline industry.Business, international 
The end of idleness. (workfare in the U.K.)Business, international 
The end of the beginning.(Mercosur, South American common market, takes off) (includes related article on the accomplishments of Mercosur)(Mercosur Survey)Business, international 
The end of the feast.(Lord Woolf's report on civil-justice reform in the UK)Business, international 
The end of work? Information technology will destroy millions of jobs. It will also create millions of new ones.(World Economy Survey)Business, international 
The enemy without and within.(Rwanda)Business, international 
The euro and the dollar: strut your stuff. (European economic and monetary union and its effect on the US dollar)Business, international 
The excellent chicken-feed of Liu Yonghao. (private Chinese feedmill company Hope)(Face Value)(Column)Business, international 
The fashion for going dry: India. (alcoholism in India)Business, international 
The Fed was wrong. (US Federal Reserve Board)(Editorial)Business, international 
The final frontier. (wireless networks for personal computers)Business, international 
The fire at the end of the tunnel. (violence between Israelis and Palestinians that began Sep 25, 1996)Business, international 
The fire this time: protecting the West. (forest fires)(American Survey)Business, international 
The first extra-terrestrials. (discovery of possible life on Mars)(Editorial)Business, international 
The fiscal mire: Brazil.(economic program of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso under pressure)Business, international 
The flight of the Kiwi. (the alternative vote would be a better alternative to proportional representation, which New Zealand recently implemented)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
The flight of the Tory pro-Europeans. (lack of support for Great Britain's membership in the European Community is demonstrated by supporters)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
The flourishing business of slavery.Business, international 
The free market's losers strike back: Argentina. (unemployment and unrest among labor unions)Business, international 
The fridge maker as dynast. (Merloni Elettrodomestici owner Vittorio Merloni)Business, international 
The fun of being a multinational. (ethics of multinational firms' Third World investments)Business, international 
The future of NATO: a new kind of alliance?(Cover Story)Business, international 
The Galaxy's guide to the hitch-hiker: voice recognition.(Galaxy computer language recognition system)Business, international 
The general in his not-so-solitude: Nigeria. (Sani Abacha's military government)Business, international 
The genetic illusion. (misinterpreting research on genetics)(Editorial)(Cover Story)Business, international 
The ghosts at the EMU feast. (meeting about the implementation of the European monetary unit)Business, international 
The gloom still hovers: France. (economy)Business, international 
The God squad: religion and politics are best kept apart. (how religion might affect upcoming elections in the United Kingdom)(Editorial)Business, international 
The gravy train: rail privatization. (proposed privatization of Britain's Railtrack)Business, international 
The great environment divide. (political battle over environmental-law reform)(American Survey)Business, international 
The great escape. (Zairean rebels send Rwandan refugees home)Business, international 
The great O.J. replay. (civil trial against former football player O.J. Simpson)(American Survey)Business, international 
The guns stop, not the anger: Lebanon.(Lebanese victims of the April, 1996 Hizbullah-Israeli conflict are buried)Business, international 
The hazards of enterprise.(Cuban reform)(Survey - Cuba)Business, international 
The heartless right: developmental biology.(researching left and right-handedness)Business, international 
The helmsman's gamble. (Alan Greenspan and the US economy)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
The Helmut-and-Jacques show. (Helmut Kohl, Jacques Chirac)Business, international 
The hidden cost of red tape.(regulatory policies and government spending)(Editorial)(Cover Story)Business, international 
The hidden costs. (social costs of automobile-driving)(Survey: Living with the Car)Business, international 
The high cost of living: the AIDS industry.(costly AIDS drugs)Business, international 
The hitchhiker's guide to cybernomics.(World Economy Survey)Business, international 
The House in the balance. (Democratic Party's effort to retake the House of Representatives in 1996)Business, international 
The human genome: the proper study of mankind. (Human Genome Project)Business, international 
The Icarus factor: America's airline industry.Business, international 
The importance of being American. (US dominance in the computer software industry)(A Survey of the Software Industry)Business, international 
The infected heart.(a herpes virus that may contribute to heart disease)Business, international 
The invisible man: anthropology.(controversy over prehistoric man dug up in Washington State)Business, international 
Their men in Havana.(foreign investment in Cuba; Survey - Cuba)Business, international 
The jam-and-Perrier budget. (economic policy of Pres Clinton and Republican Party)(American Survey)Business, international 
The judgment of Salomon. (Salomon Brothers and Warren Buffett)Business, international 
The jumbo on the runway. (obstacles to planned merger of American Airlines and British Airways)Business, international 
The Kennedy mystique.(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
The kingdom inside a republic. (new management strategy at Euro Disney)Business, international 
The last bark. (presidential campaign)(American Survey)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
The last best campaign. (1996 presidential election)(American Survey)Business, international 
The last frontier. (Mindanao)(Back on the Road: A Survey of the Philippines)Business, international 
The last living liberal. (Minnesota congressional candidate Paul Wellstone)(American Survey)Business, international 
The last of the Mohicans: British investment banks.Business, international 
The last waltz? Austrian banking.Business, international 
The lawnmower vote: politics in the heartland. (Muncie, Indiana)Business, international 
The legacy of Drumcree. (sectarian strife in Northern Ireland)Business, international 
The legend of Strom Thurmond. (senator from South Carolina seeks re-election at age 93)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
The lesson the locals learnt a little too quickly.(foreign retailing in Asia)Business, international 
The long arm of the Ghoul. (crash of Mars '96)Business, international 
The long drive into the Middle Kingdom. (prospects for automobile sales in China)(Business)Business, international 
The lost art of money.(history of paper money in the United States)Business, international 
The lost sweetness of high inflation: emerging-market derivatives.(Sao Paulo Commodities and Futures Exchange)Business, international 
The low-tax guide: assessing the inevitable. (tax rates in various countries)(Finance and Economics)Business, international 
The Luddites' lost leader? (the Unabomber and Neo-Luddism)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
The lure of distance. (telephone communications industry mergers)Business, international 
The Maastricht conundrum: the economy still suffers from too much public spending and regulation.(Spain Survey)Business, international 
The machine age. (technological advantage comes in information handling, not automation of processes)(Technology in Finance survey)Business, international 
The mall of dreams.(Silver Spring, Maryland's The American Dream mall)Business, international 
Them and us. (status of Russians in the Balkan States)Business, international 
The man in the Baghdad cafe; which "civilisation" you belong to matters less than you might think. (the influence of culture on conflict)Business, international 
The market's lonely voices: contrarian investors.Business, international 
The media is the minister; making money in East European media seems to require a canny, dissident flair. Adrian Sarbu has it. (Romanian filmmaker and television mogul)(Face Value)(Column)Business, international 
The men's ward: prostate cancer. (new research findings)(Science and Technology)Business, international 
The method in their madness. (1996 political conventions)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
The mighty fallen: Canada's family firms.Business, international 
The mighty fall in South Korea. (Chun Doo Hwan, Roh Tae Woo sentenced for treason, corruption)Business, international 
The millennium bug: an easy mistake to make.(Editorial)Business, international 
The miracle they call Ceboom. (Cebu)(Back on the Road: A Survey of the Philippines)Business, international 
The mirage of peace.(Northern Ireland)(Editorial)(Cover Story)Business, international 
The money and the muck: China.(China begins to regulate rural industries)Business, international 
The morning after ... contraception. (future development of contraceptives in question)Business, international 
The morning after high noon.(US defense spending)Business, international 
The morning ten years after. (10-year anniversary of the reforms that affected the London Stock Exchange)Business, international 
The mountain republic. (separatist militia movement in Texas)Business, international 
The multimedia wipeout: why are CD-ROMs such bad business?(The Economist Review)Business, international 
The mysterious case of the cheap cheddar.(academic economists as investigation consultants and expert witnesses)Business, international 
The mystery of growth. (Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere economics)(Editorial)Business, international 
The nature bestowed upon men. (move towards Western democracy in Japan)(Tomorrow's Japan)Business, international 
The need for greed: it is commonly argued that to get company bosses to pursue their interests, shareholders should turn them into owners. Should they?(Economics Focus)(Column)Business, international 
The new slavery? Workfare in New York.Business, international 
The new twist in Japan. (politics)(Editorial)Business, international 
The new world... (the new era in the software industry)(A Survey of the Software Industry)Business, international 
The next disaster: it may be impossible to prevent another catastrophe in Central Africa, but the world could at least try.(Editorial)Business, international 
The next Italians: Latinos in California.(upward social mobility)(American Survey)Business, international 
The next President George Bush. (George W. Bush)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
The nightmare continues: Sony in Hollywood.Business, international 
The odd couple.(economic differences of Philadelphia, PA, and Camden, NJ)Business, international 
The oil buccaneer.(Lucio Noto of Mobil)(Interview)Business, international 
The old firms. (social and business dynasties)(Back on the Road: A Survey of the Philippines)Business, international 
The once and future capital. (Berlin to be the capital of Germany again)(German Survey)Business, international 
The only man for Russia. (Pres Boris Yeltsin)(Cover Story)(Editorial)Business, international 
The other war in central Africa.(civil war in Burundi)Business, international 
The outsiders. (unemployment in the United Kingdom)(Britain's New Politics Survey)Business, international 
The passing of power. (UK has lame-duck government despite quick-succession system)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
The passion of the newly converted. (AT&T's recent focus on the Internet)(Face Value)Business, international 
The passion of Tony Blair. (Labour Party leader attempts to show his party is different enough from the Conservatives to create positive change, but not so different that a tax increase would be necessarily occur)Business, international 
The pensions conspiracy.(social security reform)(American Survey)Business, international 
The perils of being a foreigner: investing in the Philippines.Business, international 
The perils of nationalism: China. (anti-Japanese protests)Business, international 
The perils of popularity.(Japanese businessman Isao Nakauchi)Business, international 
The philosophers that Sophie skipped.(modern philosophers; book 'Sophie's World')Business, international 
The poor and the rich.(theories of economic growth)(Cover Story)Business, international 
The Portuguese professor. (Sonae's Belmiro de Azevedo)(Face Value)(Column)Business, international 
The pot-holed road to peace: Israelis and Palestinians.Business, international 
The pots-and-pans man. (South African businessman Barend Meintjes)(Face Value)(Column)Business, international 
The president puts his oar in.(President Ezer Weizman of Israel)Business, international 
The problem is U-shaped. (exhaust pollution to increase after long decline)(Survey: Living with the Car)Business, international 
The profits and losses of AIDS.(developing an AIDS vaccine)Business, international 
The property of the mind. (crime on the Internet)(Intellectual Property)Business, international 
The quality of Korean mercy. (prosecution of former South Korean leaders)Business, international 
The rabbit and the pick-up truck: software. (Internet software)Business, international 
The race to bridge borders. (trading possibilities spurs transportation system development in South America) (Mercosur Survey)Business, international 
The real cost of cheaper calls: company structure in Japan.Business, international 
The real danger of new Labour. (Tony Blair's reform of the UK Labour Party)(Editorial)Business, international 
The real debate: America's election rules are not working. (controversy over Ross Perot's participation in upcoming presidential debates)(Editorial)Business, international 
The real race.(United Kingdom's Conservative Party)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
The real slick Willie. (San Francisco, California, mayor Willie Brown)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
The rebirth of the blues.(music)Business, international 
The red lights of Italy ... and Hungary. (prostitution)Business, international 
The reluctant European. (Britain's relationship with the European Union)(A Survey of Britain's New Politics)Business, international 
The restless Valley: greater Los Angeles. (San Fernando Valley's plans to secede from Los Angeles, CA)Business, international 
The return of Ronald Reagan.(Bob Dole's presidential campaign; Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
The return of the men from MITI. (Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry)(Editorial)Business, international 
The return of the not-so natives.(African-Americans and South Africa)Business, international 
The revolving door: downsizing in America.(survey by American Management Association)Business, international 
The rhythm method: chronotherapeutics.Business, international 
The rich shall inherit the earth. (United Kingdom Prime Minister John Major seeks to abolish inheritance tax and capital-gains tax)Business, international 
The rise of Jimmy Hoffa: labour unions.(James P. Hoffa, son of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa)Business, international 
The road from imitation to innovation.(developing countries; Economics Focus)Business, international 
The road to a single market: Mercosur needs less red tape, but more common rules.(Survey Mercosur)Business, international 
The road to Koranistan.(takeover of Afghanistan capital by militant Islamic extremists)Business, international 
The road turns, at last. (changes in Japan's government and social structure)(Tomorrow's Japan)Business, international 
The Roosevelt legacy. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
The rule of law. (riots in Northern Ireland)(Britain)Business, international 
The rules of the game. (presidential campaigns)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
The satellady. (European television mogul Candace Johnson)(Face Value)(Column)Business, international 
The scapegoat. (US criticism of United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali)Business, international 
The science of sexual discrimination. (in the scientific field)Business, international 
The shadow of Weimar. (changing aspects in German politics)(German Survey)Business, international 
The sheriffs' revenge: gun laws. (Supreme Court hears challenge to Brady law)Business, international 
The shocking truth: metallic hydrogen.Business, international 
The shtetl sound: klezmer music. (Jewish music)Business, international 
The silicon tiger's electric shocker: Asian electronics.(as prices in the electronics industry fall, so too will Asia's electronic dominated economies)Business, international 
The software scavenger. (Charles Wang of Computer Associates)(Face Value)(Column)Business, international 
The sound of shapes. (dolphins and sonar)Business, international 
The Sparticle uprising.(research into the character of the earliest particles)Business, international 
The speaker vanishes.(House Speaker Newt Gingrich at the Republican National Convention)(American Survey)Business, international 
The spiel of the covenant.(Tony Blair's new conservatism)(Editorial)Business, international 
The spy who loved money. (Harold Nicholson charged with spying for Russia)(American Survey)Business, international 
The state of the atom. (nuclear power)(Face Value)Business, international 
The state we're in: India.(new state of Uttarakhand proposed)Business, international 
The state we're really in. (economic conditions)(Britain's New Politics Survey)Business, international 
The subversive Scot.(United Kingdom Lord Chancellor James Mackay)Business, international 
The superleague: university funding.(funding for university research in UK)Business, international 
The supply-siders ride again: do tax cuts help to promote economic growth?(Economic Focus)Business, international 
The sweatlanta Olympics.(1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia)Business, international 
The telephone's second chance.(Internet access providing)Business, international 
The temple of good fortune: after a brief scare in America's courts, Lloyd's of London has won approval for a much-needed settlement plan.Business, international 
The Thatcher revolution. (former prime minister Margaret Thatcher's economic policy)(Britain's New Politics Survey)Business, international 
The thin beige line: policing the border. (U.S. Border Patrol)Business, international 
The top shelf: Internet censorship.Business, international 
The Tories' beef about Europe. (British Conservative Party's dispute with the European Union)(Editorial)Business, international 
The total librarian. (indexing technology on the Internet)(Review of Books and Multimedia)Business, international 
The total perspective vortex. (physics research about the origin of the universe)Business, international 
The train now stranded in the City of London ... Can London remain Europe's biggest financial centre if Britain decides to stay out of a single European currency?Business, international 
The trouble with men. (men and women in society)(Editorial)(Cover Story)Business, international 
The true American sport.(rodeo)Business, international 
The tug for the flag: Tony Blair's audacious proposal of referendums on Scottish and Welsh devolution caught the Tories off-balance. (Great Britain's Labor leader)Business, international 
The tyranny of success.... (Microsoft's dominance of the computer industry)(A Survey of the Software Industry)Business, international 
The unmeasurable lightness of being. (many economic statistics misleading)Business, international 
The UN's next boss; a man for all seasons, all countries and an organisation like no other. (United Nation's next secretary general)(Editorial)Business, international 
The ups and downs of services: does the split of output between manufacturing and service industries affect countries' economic cycles?(Economics Focus)(Column)Business, international 
The ups and downs of the minimum wage. (political debate over the raising of the federal minimum wage)Business, international 
The use and abuse of reputation.(credit rating agencies)(Editorial)Business, international 
The vanishing of Chinatown: South Korea.(Chinese fail to thrive in South Korea)Business, international 
The velvet revolution. (revival of Gucci under new head Domenico De Sole)(Face Value)Business, international 
The visible man: the digital images of two dead people are beginning to help the living.Business, international 
The warder of the nation. (Fidel Castro in Cuba)Business, international 
The war of the wires.(impact of Internet usage on US Baby Bell companies)Business, international 
The war that cannot speak its name; there is no Kurdish question, say the Turks.(A Survey of Turkey)Business, international 
The Washington wobbler v the Baghdad bruiser. (US President Bill Clinton and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
The weirdest computer of all. (quantum computers)Business, international 
The West as it was....Business, international 
The West Bank in microcosm: Palestinians and Israelis.(talks set to start May 5, 1996)Business, international 
The wisdom of King George.(self-government for Canada's native peoples supported by government commission)Business, international 
The withering away of the state: is there such a thing as an optimum level of government spending?(Economics Focus)(Column)Business, international 
The world in his armpit. (Sen. Jesse Helms)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
The world makes up its mind(s) about Zaire.Business, international 
The wrong approach: Britain's political parties are competing over who can be toughest on public-sector strikes. But legal curbs are not enough.(Editorial)Business, international 
The wrong design. (control of European Union members' national tax and spending policies)(Cover Story)(Editorial)Business, international 
The wrong target: Tory Eurosceptics have been attacking Kenneth Clarke, the chancellor, over the negotiations on a single currency.Business, international 
The zillion dollar games. (1996 Olympics)(Cover Story)(Editorial)Business, international 
Thinking the unthinkable: the welfare state.(UK welfare reform)Business, international 
Thomas Kuhn. (US philosopher)(Obituary)Business, international 
Thoroughbred or also-ran? Lehman Brothers.(investment banking firm)(Company Profile)Business, international 
Those corrupting prions: BSE.(bovine spongiform encephalopathy research)Business, international 
Those educated Asians: what can the rest of the world learn from the classrooms of East Asia?Business, international 
Those south-eastern laggards: Romania and Bulgaria.Business, international 
Those troubled Tories: good or bad, EMU is a poor issue over which to split. (European Monetary Union)(Editorial)Business, international 
Through a glass, darkly: women in American boardrooms.Business, international 
Throw them out: Lithuania. (parliamentary elections)Business, international 
Throw till your arm drops off: Japanese baseball.Business, international 
Tien Suharto. (Indonesian president's wife)(Obituary)Business, international 
Tiger or tortoise? (India)Business, international 
Tigers or tortoises? (performance of former communist economies)(Economic focus)(Column)Business, international 
Time to move just a little faster. (German telecommunication company Deutsche Telekom)Business, international 
Time to take stock: financial reform in Central Europe.Business, international 
Timothy Leary.(Obituary)Business, international 
Ting-a-ling: Japanese telecoms.(breaking up Nippon Telegraph and Telephone)Business, international 
Tintin and the intellectuals.(French comic books)Business, international 
'Tis the season. (seasonal fluctuations)(Economics Focus)Business, international 
Tobacco on trial.(intolerance, legalization, and other drugs)(Cover Story)(Editorial)Business, international 
To be and not to be, that is the answer. (Jews in Europe)(Moreover)Business, international 
Togetherness: Swiss private banks.(changing conditions for the banks)Business, international 
Tokyo Bill. (president Clinton's Japanese vision of government)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
Tomorrow's economic argument: America is failing to get a grip on "indirect government."(Over-Regulating America)Business, international 
Tomorrow's network, tomorrow.(Asynchronous Transfer Mode switches)Business, international 
Tomorrow's second sex. (men in society)(Cover Story)Business, international 
Tony Blair's credo: the Labour leader's new orthodoxy has left the Tories floundering for an effective retort. (impact of UK opposition Labor Party's policy statement)Business, international 
Too big for its boots? (Germany after reunification)(German Survey)Business, international 
Too close for comfort: California's prisons. (prison overcrowding)Business, international 
Too good to be true: Netherlands. (minor scandal involving politician Frits Bolkestein)Business, international 
Too hot to handle. (the US presidential campaign and economic issues)(Editorial)Business, international 
Too red-faced to sign....(pseudonym used by film directors)Business, international 
To see a white elephant fly.... (June 1996 Ariane 5 launch)Business, international 
Total war: trade.(anti-terrorist legislation)Business, international 
... to the grave?(The Grand Old Party)(analysis of the Republican Party)Business, international 
Toxic shock. (synthetic chemicals and male infertility)(Science and Technology)Business, international 
Toys for the chicos: Latin American arms.Business, international 
Trade and wages: what effect does free trade have on the gap between skilled and unskilled workers' pay?Business, international 
Trade's great irony.(transportation industry)(Editorial)Business, international 
Trimming hedges: derivatives accounting. (new standards for derivatives and hedging accounting)Business, international 
Troubled waters: island rows.(disputed ownership of many Asian islands)Business, international 
Trouble for Benazir Bhutto.(prime minister of Pakistan assailed for failure to rein in deficits, corruption)Business, international 
Trouble in Tokyo. (Japan's ongoing banking crisis)(A Survey of International Banking)Business, international 
Trouble with neighbours. (disputes with border nations)(A Survey of Turkey)Business, international 
True grit of the true blues: Oxford v Cambridge boat race. (college crew)Business, international 
Truth and consequences: faction vies with fiction among this summer's talked-about novels.(The Economist Review)Business, international 
Tubular balls: carbon chemistry. (carbon fibers)(Science and Technology)Business, international 
Tudjman's last rally? Croatia.(President Franco Tudjman)Business, international 
Tune the engine, strengthen the bodywork: Mercosur needs to build up some fresh mechanisms and institutions - but not too big and not too fast.(Survey Mercosur)Business, international 
Tung steps up.(Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong)(Asia)Business, international 
Tunnel revisionism. (plans to restructure the Eurotunnel's debt)(Editorial)Business, international 
Tupac Shakur. (rap singer and actor died on Sept 13, 1996)(Obituary)Business, international 
Turbofanning the embers: regional aircraft. (Embraer)(Company Profile)Business, international 
Turkey: faces of Islam. (Welfare Party)Business, international 
Turkey tilts eastward: the Islamist-led government of Necmettin Erbakan offers no reason for alarm - so far.(Editorial)Business, international 
Turning the prophet's profits.(Islamic banks and investment funds)Business, international 
Twilight of the passions: Anything goes in post-modern productions of Richard Wagner's operas - anything that is except true feeling.Business, international 
Twin horror.(genocide in Burundi)Business, international 
'Twixt cranks and demagogues: America's UN policy.(American Survey)Business, international 
Two are two, and all alone. (America's Political Parties)Business, international 
Two Davids join: telecoms mergers.(merger of WorldCom and MFS)Business, international 
Two eyes for an eye: Israel and Lebanon.(Cover Story)Business, international 
Two proud cities: Russia. (Moscow and St. Petersburg)Business, international 
Two states of mind about those southern neighbours.(American Survey)Business, international 
Ultraspeakers: hi-fi technology.(Science and Technology)Business, international 
Under new laws: industry in China. (tariff reductions)Business, international 
Understanding cyberspace. (computer networks)(Survey of Technology in Finance)Business, international 
Under the gun: Hong Kong film festival.Business, international 
Under threat. (peace between Israel and the Palestinians)Business, international 
Undue diligence.(workaholism in the U.S.)Business, international 
Unequal partners: Taiwan and China. (trade laws)Business, international 
United for now: India.(Deve Gowda new prime minister)Business, international 
Unpopular parties: despite its good intentions, the new government is fighting shy of radical change.(Spain Survey)Business, international 
Unprotected: Asian petrochemicals.Business, international 
Unreconstructed: Lloyd's of London. (insurer faces many obstacles)(Finance and Economics)Business, international 
Unto those that have shall be given. (innovative perks for American workers mask lack of other benefits)Business, international 
Up for grabs. (commercialization of rugby union in Britain)Business, international 
Uphill struggle: Olivetti. (Italian information services)Business, international 
Uprooted: the forestry industry.(international competition)Business, international 
Up, up and (briefly) away. (value of the U.S. dollar)Business, international 
Ursula and her unAmerican ways. (Ursula Engelen-Kefer, deputy secretary-general of the German trade union DGB)(Face Value)Business, international 
Venezuela: big government, bad government.Business, international 
Venezuela: drug delta. (cocaine trafficking)Business, international 
Victor ludorum. (Bill Clinton uses Atlanta Olympics to his political advantage)(Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
Violent and irrational - and that's just the policy.(Crime in America)(Cover Story)Business, international 
Virtuous unreality. (budget proposed by British Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke)('96 budget)Business, international 
Vladivostok man. (foreign investor Andrew Fox)(Face Value)(Column)Business, international 
Vote for Peres. (Israel's Shimon Peres endorsed)(Editorial)Business, international 
Voting for Harriet. (Harriet Harman; 1996 parliamentary Labour Party elections)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Voting local: Brazil. (upcoming municipal elections)Business, international 
Wading through the Brown stuff.(shadow Exchequer chancellor Gordon Brown's tax policy)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Wagging tails. (China concerned about closer links between US and Australia)Business, international 
Waiting for the man: Hong Kong.(selection process for Chief Executive of Hong Kong under Chinese rule)Business, international 
Wake me when it's over: campaign issues, indifference.(American Survey)Business, international 
Wake up or die. (restructuring at European companies)(Business in Europe)Business, international 
Walking the earth like brothers. (history of Muslims in the United States)Business, international 
Wall Street's twists and turns.Business, international 
Wang Li. (propagandist for Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong)(Obituary)Business, international 
Wanted: a martyr. (unpopular economic reforms badly needed in Spain)(Spain Survey)Business, international 
Wanted men: Honduras. (Honduran army's human rights record)Business, international 
Wanted: some African tigers: the EU and the Third World.(the end of the Lome convention)Business, international 
War cancelled: American trade policy. (averting trade wars)Business, international 
War on Wall Street.(changes in the stock trading rooms brought about by new technology; Survey of Technology in Finance)Business, international 
War over Naples: NATO. (dispute over what countries will run subcommands of North Atlantic Treaty Organization)Business, international 
Warp speed. (technological revolution in financial services is unpredictable)(Technology in Finance survey)Business, international 
Waste not, want not: treating blood disease. (blood stem cells in umbilical cords and placenta)(Science and Technology)Business, international 
Watching the Mekong flow. (economic development along the Mekong River)(Asia)Business, international 
Ways toward EMU. (European Monetary Union)(Editorial)Business, international 
Wedded to the past: the new disturbances in Ulster suggest that unionism is bankrupt.(Northern Ireland violence)(Editorial)(Cover Story)Business, international 
Weighing up the competition: the economy.(Great Britain)Business, international 
Welcome home: Rwanda.(return of Hutus)Business, international 
Welfare state: Turkey. (former Prime Minister Tansu Ciller and her True Path Party form alliance with Islamist Welfare Party)(Europe)Business, international 
Wet weather.(new oceanography instrument)Business, international 
What a choice.(1996 presidential candidates)(Editorial)Business, international 
What are critics for?(purpose of arts critics)Business, internationalFintan O'Toole
What are they both up to? Israel and Palestinians.Business, international 
What kind of Bosnia? (elections)Business, international 
What price stability?(Indonesia)Business, international 
What's German for fudge? Germany. (economic policy)Business, international 
What's the matter with the health reforms?(Audit Commission report reveals problems in British health care reform)Business, international 
What's your pleasure? (British pubs regaining popularity in the wake of monopoly -busting laws)Business, international 
What the ministry managed. (European governments reduce involvement in business)(Business in Europe)Business, international 
What works? (government-funded job training is ineffective)Business, international 
When legend become truth, film the legend. (criticism of the political movie 'Michael Collins')Business, international 
When North Korea goes critical. (how to prevent crisis)(Editorial)Business, international 
When the earth moves.(earthquake research)Business, international 
When virtually lost is really lost. (three-dimensional virtual environments)(Review of Books and Multimedia)Business, international 
Where it hurts: Egypt and Israel. (relations)Business, international 
Where - or what - is Eastern Europe?Business, international 
Where salsa meets burger. (Hispanic American population in Los Angeles, CA)Business, international 
Where's the outrage?(1996 election)(America's Angry Voters)(Cover Story)Business, international 
Where there's muck: European farms.Business, international 
Where there's smoke, there's cash: tobacco and politics in California.Business, international 
Which Bill Clinton?(Editorial)Business, international 
Which half? Advertising. (debate over the effectiveness of advertising)Business, international 
Which road for the economy? South Africa. (privatization)Business, international 
Whitewater oozes out once more. (recent convictions in the Whitewater Development Corp. investigations and the political ramifications for Pres Clinton)(American Survey)Business, international 
Who goes there? Speaker recognition.(may replace alcohol breath-analyzers)Business, international 
Who is a rabbi? Israel. (tensions between religious and secular Jews)Business, international 
Who pays for it? (agreement on draft European Union budget for 1997)Business, international 
Who's next?(French incarceration system)Business, international 
Why Clarke should raise taxes. (United Kingdom Chancellor Kenneth Clarke)Business, international 
Why the Net should grow up.(Internet)(Cover Story)(Editorial)Business, international 
Why?: the Qana massacre. (Israel's bombing of Lebanese civilians on Apr 18, 1996)Business, international 
Why the time has come for a change. (representative democracy should be replaced by direct democracy)(Survey on Full Democracy)Business, international 
Wifewater, continued.(Hillary Rodham Clinton; Whitewater investigation; Lexington)(Column)Business, international 
Will it last? Turkey, Israel and the Arabs.Business, international 
Will the Basques relent?(Basques in Spain)Business, international 
Winged white elephant: despite its many problems, the four governments behind the Eurofighter should persevere with it.(Editorial)Business, international 
Winners and losers. (World Economy Survey) (analysis of the widening gap between high and low wage-earners in the US and Britain)(includes related article on divergence in growth rates as between corporate profits and employees salaries)Business, international 
Winning America's budget war: the Republicans still have the advantage. They must use it, not lose it.(Editorial)Business, international 
Winter hits Argentina.(changing politics and economy in Argentina)Business, international 
Wipe-out. (Conservative party squabbling could lead to a crushing election defeat)(Bagehot)(Column)Business, international 
Withering indictment. (failure of farm policies in Africa)(Sub-Saharan Africa Survey)Business, international 
With Lebed shed: Russia has not seen the back of this turbulent ex-general. (Alexander Lebed)(Editorial)Business, international 
Wobbly tigers: East Asia's economies are experiencing growing pains.(Editorial)Business, international 
Wooing a bear: NATO. (growth of NATO and its courtship of Russia)Business, international 
Work to rules. (European Union's working hours directive) (Employment Legislation)Business, international 
World Trade overload? The World Trade Organisation has to steer a course between two dangers: a surfeit of ambition, and a lack of it.(Editorial)Business, international 
World war, national decline and the English football team.Business, international 
Worms beneath the palms: Miami politics. (financial mismanagement and corruption in the government of Miami, Florida)(American Survey)Business, international 
Would you buy a used TV station? (stock issue by Mediaset)Business, international 
Xenophobia, meet myopia: French privatisation.Business, international 
Yeltsin out in front. (Boris Yeltsin, Russian election)Business, international 
Yeltsin's Chechnya gambit.(Boris Yeltsin's peace talks offer)(Editorial)Business, international 
Yeltsin's left-hand man.(Russian President Boris Yeltsin; Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin)Business, international 
Yeltsin's next round. (Russian Pres. Boris Yeltsin)(Editorial)(Cover Story)Business, international 
Yes, it's war: Colombia. (rebellion by Marxist guerrillas in Colombia)Business, international 
Yet it moves: Armenia. (presidential election)Business, international 
Yet more the same medicine: Aetna and U.S. Healthcare. (proposed merger of health insurer and health maintenance organization)Business, international 
Yew-dunnit: taxol. (alternative source of cancer drug)Business, international 
Ying and Huang. (former Democratic National Committee member John Huang)(Column)Business, international 
Your rupees or your life: letter from Lahore. (crime in Lahore, Pakistan)Business, international 
You say Senkaku, I say Diaoyu: China and Japan. (conflict over uninhabited islands)(Asia)Business, international 
Yoweri's rules: Uganda.(President Yoweri Museveni tries to ensure his reelection)Business, international 
Zedillo's chance: with the economy on the mend, now is the time for Mexico's president to take the political initiative.(Ernesto Zedillo)(Editorial)Business, international 
Zulus make up: South Africa. (political feud ends)Business, international 
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