Tough Times in Tech...Best Products...A Tough Road for Bush?

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE DECEMBER 18, 2000, ISSUE OF BUSINESS WEEK*

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Cover Story:
THE TECH SLUMP
Slowing growth in tech spending, not shrinkage, is what's in store. But that 
will be painful enough -- for the industry and the economy as a whole.
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Election 2000:
HOW BUSH WOULD LEAD
As the election process crawls to its seemingly inevitable conclusion, it 
looks like George W. will face a slowing economy, a divided Congress, and an 
uneasy nation. But don't judge W., who has a history of being underestimated, 
just yet.
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Special Report:
THE BEST PRODUCTS OF 2000
From an improved -- but still refreshingly low-tech -- $1 pencil to a BMW 
that goes for $130,000, we've picked out the best of this year's new  stuff. 
Now you can't complain that you don't know what to get anyone for the 
holidays!
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12/07 -- Labor Finally Puts a Target on Wal-Mart
After years of unsuccessful tactics, the United Food & Commercial Workers is 
launching a nationwide organizing drive aimed at better pay and benefits
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2000/nf2000126_820.htm

12/06 -- Special Report: That Crazy Patchwork Called Electricity Deregulation
The results so far are mixed -- at best. Doing better will mean more big, 
painful changes in energy markets and policies nationwide
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2000/nf2000126_886.htm

12/05-- Streaming Video -- on Your Cell Phone?
Korea's Samsung is convinced that consumers will line up for its coming 
video-phone. Or will it be too much, too soon?
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2000/nf2000125_488.htm

12/04 -- Election 2000's Would Haves, Could Haves, Should Haves
If only Gore or Bush had done so many things differently, either one might 
have put this election away
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2000/nf2000124_466.htm

12/01 -- A Bull and a Bear Butt Heads
Are the steep drops in the market a harbinger of recession or a signal of the 
long-awaited soft landing? Two BW Online writers stake out their opposite 
positions
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2000/nf2000121_633.htm


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12/07 -- Words for the Wise on Voice Recognition
The technology really works, and the two market leaders sure have supporters. 
Too bad these stocks' volatility is as great as their promise
http://www.businessweek.com/ebiz/0012/es1207.htm

12/06 -- Microsoft's Turncoat or True Believer?
As CEO of Web-tool maker Crossgain, Tod Nielsen walks a tightrope -- he's 
competing with the giant he once worked for and still feels loyalty toward
http://www.businessweek.com/ebiz/0012/em1206.htm

12/05-- What's Killing the E-Beauty Biz
Big brands that withheld top products from the Web -- and sites that tried to 
succeed without them -- are the culprits. Still, it's too early to count out 
e-beauty
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12/01 -- The Cyber Gift of Last Resort
Here's how three of the best-known online gift certificate sites stack up
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12/07 -- Feeling the Squeeze
As the economy slows, small-business owners have one eye on increasingly 
cautious consumers -- and the other on their debt load
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2000/sb2000127_329.htm

12/06 -- Wanna Buy a Used Computer?
Plenty of people do ???? though not yet enough for outfits like TechSmart to 
find gold in those mountains of corporate America's castoff hardware
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2000/sb2000126_527.htm

12/05 -- Becoming a Partner
It's worth weighing the upside and down before signing on as an equity partner
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2000/sb2000125_123.htm

12/01 -- Car-Sharing: Is It the Next Colossus of Roads?
Neither a car-rental company nor a leasing outfit, Boston's Zipcar provides  
clean, reliable, no-fuss vehicles for members who need wheels only some of 
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