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isely, the Senate has rejected the temptation to dabble in the oil-price issue by temporarily cuttin

he strong yen has not yet hurt Japanese exporters very much, judging by the latest trade numbers. A

Mwangi Githendu might not know much about politics, but he insists: ''I know when I'm being cheated.

China's authoritarian government regularly and systematically ignores universally recognized rights.

Readers are wonderful. They think and they communicate. This week, I'm going to share the reactions

t's a day for two transportation firsts - and for reflection.On this date in 1911, Pierre Pr

The birth of Windows 2000 has generated a new wave of profit-motivated efforts by computer-book publ

I have followed with interest your concern over the low productivity of American seaports. You have

he congressional oversight hearing last week on the Clinton administration's budget request for a ne

It's hard to disagree with Alan Greenspan because he's right on so many things, but pouring thousand

It's the kind of story that simultaneously feeds outsiders' prejudices about France's failure to com

I've had enough with all this stuff about the New Economy, the ''weightless economy,'' ''legacy indu

olitics may be a lot of things in the United States, but boring is not usually one of them. In Japan

The second-largest economy in the world has been stagnating for almost a decade now, which calls for

U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker recently testified before a Senate committee highlighting d

ashington has just lost a major anti-dumping case at the World Trade Organization, as well it should

So the 1999 financial results have had their airing. The whole container-shipping industry has exper

The Clinton administration's Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee has just set forth its export ag

When John Guest became chief information officer in 1996 at Paradyne Networks in Largo, Fla., out we

The black-widow spider is notorious for killing its mate. Sadly, there is a black-widow spider quali

Confederate and Union soldiers mingled in Marion, Ark., one afternoon several days ago beside an Ark

he U.S. Export-Import Bank last week approved a $490 million package of loan guarantees for the Russ

young doctor has filed a $10 million suit in New York against the Nike running-shoe company. Accordi

It seems hardly a day can go by without a news item on China's campaign for World Trade Organization

It is high time for U.S. policy makers to begin to think about fashioning workable, national policy

There is a message for the West Coast in the recent string of news stories concerning the all-water

movie star, President Clinton and a television network teamed up under the flag of environmentalism

In an article on March 22 (''South Korea to take case to WTO after meetings fail to end EU feud,'' P

oshiro Mori went to work this week at a job that faces pressures from two huge and conflicting issue

The Congressional Budget Office recently published a compendium of 250 specific policy options for t

If there has been one surprising development in the glamour surrounding the e-commerce explosion, it

Today, the public associates America's unprecedented prosperity with e-commerce and high technology.

Bill Gates is at it again.''Innovation will continue to be the No. 1 priority at Microsoft,'

As a small manufacturer in Illinois, I'm often asked why I care about being able to sell my gear mot

Next week the International Intermodal Expo will be held in Atlanta. The event, which comes at an in

here's outrage in France and French-speaking Canada over the decision by Air France to require its p

hree U.S. nuclear power plant manufacturers - ABB Combustion Engineering, General Electric and Westi

Now what? Now that Taiwan has elected Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party as its next

I've been working on ways to speed up my computer. As all computer geeks know, speediness is next to

A few days ago, a news story on the national wire reported that U.S. taxpayers are likely to get stu