Commentary

ive them an ''A'' for effort - but be sure to use the French pronunciation.French officials

hings may be starting to look up on the Customs computer front. But they're only starting. There's a

In ''Pssst! You want to buy a railroad? Cheap?'' (column, Feb. 16, Page 8), Lawrence Kaufman notes t

The European Union is planning another incursion into the troubled territory of jobs policy.

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's recent thoughts on economic policy can be summarized in th

eople, especially shippers, didn't always like what Ron Gottshall had to tell them. But they couldn'

s the American presidential campaign gathers pace, the virtues of the free-trade system that has ser

There's a globally recognized picture of the English city gent that depicts a man decked out in a bo

Masayoshi Son, whose personal net worth of $60 billion on paper is more than that of Myanmar (former

The victory of reformist candidates in Iran's parliamentary elections marks a further step in the co

t's a scenario that's easy to understand, that's certain to provoke fear, and that's guaranteed to m

In a recent Friday afternoon announcement, the Clinton administration granted temporary import relie

How-to-succeed books counsel ambitious young executives to continually upgrade their skills to compe

Every year our State Department irritates the rest of the world by assessing how well - or how badly

Whoever wins Taiwan's March 18 presidential election, his first policy decision should be to scrap t

ongress is treading a truly fine line in consulting on cyber security with a computer hacker who was

Forward-looking entrepreneurs played an important role in early postwar Japan, launching such long-t

In the movie version of ''The Untouchables,'' Elliot Ness is given advice about facing his adversari

Juanita Swedenburg, a warm woman with a head of curly gray hair, is the last person one would call a

he statistics tell a troubling story.The United States has a deficit in its balance of payme

ever underestimate the power - or the reach - of the market.Economically tight times in the

A staple of any Principles of Macroeconomics class is a review of the economic situation of the 1970

Most of the known world plans to testify at next week's Surface Transportation Board hearing on the

I knew it would happen. I saw it coming many moons ago, but nobody believed me. In fact I received m

The Japanese market holds much promise for U.S. firms as new forms of doing business evolve. Mail-or

The fiasco during the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle in December has scarred both th

here's at least one positive thing about the endurance contest that the American presidential campai

new Department of Transportation report on the maritime industry paints an educational picture of a

Ask human resource executives at American companies to identify the top three issues facing their in

The euro slipped further below one-to-one parity with the dollar to an all-time low Monday, but the

Perhaps the oddest political coalition in America today is that of anti-suburban intellectuals and s

In his year-and-a-half-long tenure as head of the Maritime Administration, Clyde Hart Jr. has no dou

ot only do computers increase human productivity exponentially, but they also magnify human mistakes

hina's 14-year effort to join the World Trade Organization hit another snag last week: an inconclusi

Here are a few reasons why it matters who becomes president.President Clinton winked and nod

In some people's minds, power and money have the same effect. They create conspiracies to get more,

China Shipping Group (CSG) continues its expansion, but there could be changes of thinking within.

The first steps toward a second try at laying the groundwork for a major new world-trade negotiation

he United States has won high-profile cases at the World Trade Organization over bananas and beef, b

ew research findings are likely to provoke a hair-raising response from some pubgoers in Ireland and