Commentary

Talk about slow-moving inventory: A Florida food company was asked in 1962, during the fearful days

We're a nation of snoopers. When visiting someone's home, four out of 10 Americans can't resist the

I had a call last week from someone who reckons he has his finger on the Mediterranean container pul

The trans-Atlantic dispute over beef injected with growth hormones concerned a trade worth a relativ

Perhaps more so than any other U.S. metropolis, New York City - a harbor, a destination for immigran

The news of an agreement between the United States and the People's Republic of China paving the way

The flap in California over automated-teller-machine fees is instructive. But the way it's going, no

The United States is enjoying what is becoming the longest economic boom in peacetime history.

Maritime forums often mention the ''human factor'' in incident prevention, but little attention is g

Albert Einstein was selfish. By 1905 he had already characterized the motion of molecules in a fluid

U.S. and foreign companies should understand that current political pressures in the United States p

I just read your article about FDX allowing customers access through their program (FedEx lets users

In addition to providing an infusion of capital, United Parcel Service's initial public offering sho

U.S. port executives got an important lesson this month with the announcement that Maersk and Sea-La

The profitability of most carriers depends on asset utilization. But to steal a term from psychology

For most Americans, Japan is seen as being at the heart of the unfair trade problem. There is strong

If you take a close look at the Southern California ports these days, you will find that under the b

An American tanker executive offered a penetrating observation the other night in a thoughtful speec

Geography doesn't seem to be a major factor in bad driving. That's one conclusion you could draw fro

Industry ecology, the blending of environmental and business goals, has come of age. But one thing i

President Clinton celebrated the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall this week by pleadi

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR:Not since Adam and Eve ate apples has the world been in such a

An ungainly looking ship is scheduled to duck beneath the Verrazano Narrows Bridge today and head fo

Recently, the folks at Dow Jones & Co. seemed to wake up to the threat of the NASDAQ composite index

As the old saying goes, we are known by the company we keep. For the past six years, that company fo

I've been conned, led astray, hoaxed!Last week I reported that Congress was considering allo

Money laundering is a pervasive crime that will only get worse as ''cyberlaundering'' makes it even

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government reforms appear to be focusing far more on him than the

Now comes the hard part: reconciling Senate and House differences in order to enact what could be th

One of the biggest challenges for a chief executive officer is accommodating the conflicting expecta

Ten years ago today, the Berlin Wall began to fall, and the Iron Curtain that had divided Europe for

America's small railroads have built a remarkable record of success in recent years. However, today

In response to your article and editorial on the World Trade Organization's expected new round of ne

Imagine a big international conclave of engineering wizards that spends three years upgrading the ho

Yes, George W. Bush, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, should have a soli

In his opinion column of Oct. 26, Rip Watson surveyed factors influencing rail service (''When will

It's that time of the year again. Britain has switched its clocks back one hour, it's dark early, an

Who says the best things in life can't be measured?A pair of economists have set out to tote

When Anatoly Chubais held his breakfast with the International Monetary Fund one morning last week,

A notion that surfaced at a hearing on Capitol Hill last week offers a rational approach to resolvin