January 1988 COVER: ALASKA BUSINESS HALL OF FAME - Robert Atwood, Larry Carr, Walter Hickel, Austin "Cap" Lathrop, Ray Petersen, Joseph Usibelli

PROJECT BUSINESS: Junior Achievement & business help educate junior high students

THE CRASH: How Alaskan interests fared in black & blue Monday's stock market collapse

LOWER 48 ENTERPRISES HELP ALASKAN FIRMS SURVIVE - Fewer opportunities at home and overhead costs that won't go away are sending survival-minded Alaskan firms south in search of new revenues

HOONAH'S WHITESTONE LOGGING - Although the Southeast business has grown to become the state's largest logging operation, future prospects are threatened by regulatory and administrative uncertainties plaguing the timber industry

February 1988 COVER: KOREA - ALASKA - A special report on Alaska's Pacific Rim business efforts

SPECIAL SECTION: INTERNATIONAL TRADE - Cowper's Trade Strategy. Trade Missions: What Do They Accomplish? A Closer Look At Alaska's Key Export Commodities. Export Assistance Directory. Alaskan Export Profiles. International Trade Newsletter & Calendar

KOREA & ALASKA: Two developing countries converging toward a common future

JOHN CHOON KIM'S CRUSADE FOR TRADE - The executive director of the Alaska Center for International Business is campaigning to increase the state's foreign trade

HENRY KIM'S SALMON SKIN SCHEME

SOUTHEAST'S DECLARATION OF (VISITOR) INDEPENDENCE - But seasonal slavery still survives

March 1988 COVER: FEEDING THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGG - 10 ways to rejuvenate Alaska's oil industry regardless of prices and to maximize the state's return on its investment

WORKER'S COMPENSATION IN AK: Lassoing a good idea that's run amok

STRENGTH IN NUMBERS: National accounting firms in AK merge

ALASKA'S CPA BIZ: 30 Years of liquidity

FOUR SMALL STEPS TOWARD ONE GIANT ECONOMIC LEAP: North Pacific Aquaculture Development Co., Alaska Pure Spring Water, Chinook Alaskan Brewery, Alaska Skins, Inc.

DESKTOP PUBLISHING: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE - Only 3 years old, computer systems for page composition continue to evolve rapidly toward greater affordability and sophistication

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN ERASES PAGE LAYOUT - Desktop publishing simplifies and speeds page composition chores, inviting experimentation and a more perfect product

OFFICE AUTOMATION: New technologies boost productivity & profitability

April 1988 COVER: A NEW FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPING & RETAINING AK'S WEALTH

ALASKA SEAFOOD MARKETING INSTITUTE AIMS FOR LARGER MARKETS - Having snagged funding increases, Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute aims to have still larger domestic and international catches

ALYESKA PIPELINE'S "TALL GEORGE NELSON" - A charity crusader and company president, he's leveraging his 30 years of experience in the petroleum industry to oversee operations of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System

MADE IN ALASKA: Alaska manufacturers face obstacles

WALK ON THE WILD SIDE & SOUP'S LINE: Matanuska Maid Dairy

ALASKA FURNITURE MANUFACTURER'S: Fighting the "Garage Operation" image

WHAT IF...STATE GOVERNMENT PRACTICED WHAT IT PREACHES ABOUT BUYING ALASKAN? - When it comes to not buying Alaskan, state government may be one of the worst offenders

TOP OF THE WORLD PRODUCTIONS: Interior manufacturers

STIFF COMPETITION RUNS DEEP: Too little cargo and too much capacity challenge Alaska's carriers

KROGSTAD LAUNCHES TWO TRANSPORTATION BUSINESSES - Fascinated by cargo since childhood, Sam Krogstad has launched two value-added transportation firms

TOUGH ROAD TO TOW: Truckers say higher taxes to fund the fixing of Alaska's highways could break them

May 1988 COVER: REAPPORTIONING BYPASS MAIL - The new recipe for splitting mail among air carriers raises U.S. Postal Service costs, but preserves hub-and-spoke routing

BOREAL TRADITIONS: Art & artifacts sold in hotel-based shop in Skagway's reborn White Pass & Yukon Railroad

SOUTHEAST GEARS UP FOR ANOTHER BANNER SUMMER OF TOURISM

THE STRETCH: More state funding would help Alaska target larger markets

INSTITUTIONALIZING RURAL ALASKA'S BED & BREAKFAST INSTITUTION

HOW BOX LUNCHES FOR TOURISTS HELP ALASKA'S ECONOMY - The impact of a box tourist lunch ripples throughout the Alaskan economy

FOUR ENTREPRENEURS PACKAGE PASTIMES INTO TOURISM ATTRACTIONS - Tales of four entrepreneurs packaging their favorite pastimes into tourism attractions. Alaska Discovery, Little El Dorado Gold Camp, Idita-Tours, Northland Ranch Resor

June 1988 COVER: DEALING WITH NATURAL RESOURCE CONFLICTS - Can Alaskans agree on a strategy to develop all the state's natural resources without jeopardizing its fisheries potential?

WADE NOLAN'S VIDEO BROCHURES CAPTURE ALASKA

CALLING THE CATCH: 1988 Fishing forecast

FAIRBANKS ON SKIS: Jim Whisenant & his Beaver Sports store

SIZING UP MODULE MAKING IN ALASKA - Alaskan module manufacturing could employ thousands of Alaskans and create a new multimillion dollar industry

THE MAT-SU VALLEY VIES FOR VISITORS - The Matanuska-Susitna Borough aims to alleviate steep unemployment and falling property valuations with tourism development

TAKING STOCK OF SEALASKA'S STELLAR PERFORMANCE - Alaska's largest Native regional corporation has recovered from huge losses in the early '80s and is once again reporting record profit

July 1988 COVER: ALASKAN INVENTORS, STIMULATING INNOVATION

SPECIAL SECTION: CORPORATE FITNESS - Alaskan Businesses Hit the Fitness Trail. Tallying Fitness Assets. How Small Businesses Foster Fitness. The Alaska Club-Business is Shaping Up. Employee Health Boosts Bottom Lines. Managing for Corporate Fitness in Turbulent Times.

FORMULA FOR ENTERPRISE: Dominic Donatello's Don Chemical Co. provides for Alaska Mill & Feed and other enterprises.

TAPPING ALASKA'S INNOVATIVE RESOURCES: Stimulating creativity inventor to entrepreneur

THE PATIENT PICKLE

CAPITOL CRUNCH...Juneau's Dick Holden and outside financing

GAMBLING'S HIS BUSINESS: Ed Dilley of Fairbanks and Alotto

August 1988 COVER: SPECIAL OLYMPICS ISSUE

SPECIAL SECTION: 1988 ALASKA OLYMPIC BID - Let It Shine: The Olympics as an economic development opportunity. AOC's New York Fund-Raiser. Primer: Speaking the Olympics International Language. Fairbanks Expects Fringe Benefits if Anchorage Hosts Olympics. Panhandle Ponders Pluses to Southeast Economy From Olympics

TAILOR-MADE TRUCK TOPPERS: Wasilla Cache Camper Manufacturing and Anchorage's Alaskap Canopy Manufacturing

SOUTHEAST'S POWER PUZZLE: Possible Hydroelectric demand

NEW LATITUDES: Surveyors & mappers diversify as government spending decreases

September 1988 COVER: AIDEA: Managing a Commercial Loan Guarantee Program

ON THE WINGS OF ACCREDITATION: UAF's School of Management gains credentials

CAPITAL QUEST: Alaska's hunt for new sources of capital

FEDERAL & STATE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS FOR BUSINESS. A directory

RED DOG MINE: A stake in Alaska's resources

SOUTHEAST BANKS: On the mend

RESOURCE-BASED BONDING FITS ALASKA'S CAPITAL NEEDS - Recently applied to gold-and oil-based projects elsewhere, this financing mechanism offers opportunities for funding Alaskan ventures

THE ROLE OF FISCAL POLICY IN ALASKA'S ECONOMIC RECOVERY - Financial analyst Arthur Laffer advocates promoting economic growth in Alaska by creating a fiscal and regulatory environment conducive to private sector competition

October 1988 COVER: THE NEW 49ERS

SPECIAL SECTION: NEW 49ERS - Companies Ranked by Employee. Pacesetters: The Fastest Growing New 49ers. Top Of the Crop: Profiles of the 10 Largest Firms.

FAIRBANKS' PAUL GAVORA: From milkman to magnate

AUTO SALES TAKE OFF

HOMER'S CATCH: Oceantrawl's impact on Homer

BUILDING A BUSINESS BARN-RAISING STYLE: Vitrics style, Vitrics gets community

TORRENTS OVER TIMBER: Proposed legislation clouds future profits

SITKA'S SEDUCTION: Aiming to attract new visitors

November 1988 COVER: FOCUS ON EXPORTERS - Sandra & Raymond Cesarini, Sea Hawk Seafoods pictured on the cover

FROM PLEASURE TO PROFIT: Alaskans doing business in Hawaii

PEGGING THE PROSPECTS OF YUKON-PACIFIC'S GAS PIPELINE - Development of Yukon-Pacific's natural gas pipeline depends largely on Japan's commitment to nuclear power

OPTING TO EXPORT: Several Alaskan businesses tap foreign markets

ANCHORAGE'S FORAY INTO FOREIGN TRADE ZONE SITES - Anchorage's pending foreign trade zones sites will arm the city to capture the business of international shippers for storage, manufacturing and transshipping operations

NIKISKI'S CHRONIC PETROLEUM EXPORTS TO THE PACIFIC RIM - Firms in this Kenai Peninsula community have been sending petroleum products to the Pacific Rim for almost 20 years

FUELING A FONDNESS FOR FAIRBANKS: Fairbanks International Airport

GREENHOUSE EFFECT: For better or for worse in Alaska?

BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS TO ALASKA-CANADA TRADE: A New trade agreement

December 1988 COVER: ALASKA NATIVE CORPORATIONS - Information on Alaska's regional and top village Native corporations, including revenues, business activities and partnerships. Roy Ewan, President, Ahtna, Inc., & Glenn Fredericks of Kuskokwim Corp pictured on the cover

SPECIAL SECTION: ANCSA CORP REVIEW: How They Fared in 1987. Trailblazers: Native Corporations Face Challenges.

NATIVE CORPORATION PERFORMANCES MEASURE ANCSA'S SUCCESS - Despite controversy, many indicators of economic growth meter the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act a grand achievement

ALASKA'S MARKETING AGENCIES: A directory client's guide to agency use. Soaring on the wings of advertising Salty

SAMSON TUG & BARGE - Barging along in the freight business since 1937, Samson persists in carving its niche in the Alaskan market