Commentary

he $1.8 trillion budget proposal that was unveiled this week was pure President Clinton, both overal

The House of Representatives jabbed another goad into China - needlessly so - by passing a bill that

The European Union is trying to force the Russian government to make a difficult commercial and poli

In the intellectual battle between state control of resources and free markets, some people argue th

There are new frictions looming just over the horizon in relations between the United States and Jap

Back in the glory days of the Roman Empire, the operative Italian transport slogan was: ''All roads

t first glance, nothing would seem to connect VodafoneAirTouch's $190 billion takeover of Mannesmann

The facts about millionaires, it turns out, don't exactly gibe with what Mom and Dad told you when y

Generation X thinks time is worth more than money.That's the key conclusion of a nationwide

There's something very ironic about this industry of ours.From the shipping-line point of vi

When I first saw the article on a speech to Wall Street investors given by CSX's chairman, John Snow

The report that the government of Saudi Arabia may consider opening up its health-insurance market i

The U.S. Capitol is a dangerous place and not just because, as the old saying has it, no man's life

ill it take a major trade disaster in America for Washington to face up to its responsibility for a

Last November, Washington and Beijing concluded a bilateral agreement to pave the way for China's me

From pariah to prince in just a few months, Joerg Haider has leaped on to the international stage an

On a day in which the breadth of the horizon off Key West, Fla., is painted the hue of a robin egg,

I read with interest your Jan. 14 article (''Importers protest Customs ruling,'' Page 3) regarding C

he U.S. government has sent a clear, simple message to China about its proposal to slap stiff contro

ecessity is the mother of adaption as well as invention.Reuters reports that a business-serv

Sam Banks was his usual ebullient self on the morning of the last day of his 29-year career at the U

So, have you been wondering what this open-source, free-software thing is all about, but thinking yo

Many investors and observers were scurrying in search of a safety blanket last month after Time Warn

Is it possible the First World will give China a virtual monopoly in agricultural biotechnology, des

olls aren't the only part of the motor-transportation experience that high technology is changing.

aio Koch-Weser, the German candidate for the leadership of the International Monetary Fund, deserves

Yesterday was Groundhog Day, when Punxsutawney Phil enjoyed his traditional five minutes of fame. I

''Anyone can become a hero'' was the refrain to a popular Russian song called ''March of the Happy-G

Under headlines like ''Surplus to Soar,'' the Congressional Budget Office's just-released Budget and

I agree with former Maritime Administrator Warren Leback (''U.S. maritime industry past the Band-Aid

The busted forecast for last week's East Coast snowstorm points to a very troubling aspect of modern

If common carriage isn't dead, it's at least on life support.For those readers who do not re

resident Clinton ardently straddled the sides of the globalization issue over the weekend, eloquentl

ritain is officially a member of the European Union, but not all its citizens are entirely convinced

You've probably seen the Macintosh commercials on television that show how you can direct, edit and

Within a fortnight or so, an epoch ends: Michel Camdessus retires after 13 years of heading the Inte

Last September, when Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met his Canadian counterpart, Jean Chretien, for

The Shakers were a 19th century Christian sect, largely in upstate New York and New England, that di

If nothing else, the euro's slide below parity with the dollar last week focused the attention of 29

he good news is that auto theft in Brazil isn't nearly as bad as statistics indicate. The bad news i