Commentary

You have to pay close attention to all the details, major and minor. Plan for the expected and the u

America is in danger of being polled to pointlessness. From political polls to market research on al

Any way you look at it, the lines that used to separate transportation companies and their services

Has Tony Blair found the politician's Holy Grail? The British prime minister seems to do no wrong. A

Th British government has just taken a step that Washington would do well to heed: It announced a pl

Even as 2 million people were recently forced from their homes along India's overflowing Ganges Rive

It is now more than three years since the Maritime Law Association adopted its proposal for revision

In an era when public officials' lives are not noted for austerity, especially among those who trave

So it finally happened. After all the months of rumor and speculation, the marriage of convenience b

The U.S. Army wanted them, needed them: replacement parts for its construction gear in Kosovo. Cater

We are writing on behalf of the sugar industries listed below regarding the article titled ''Anatomy

If you are driving through arid, hellishly hot South Texas, you have to watch the brush carefully to

Membership rolls for the Job Search Focus Group in Cincinnati contain enough acronyms to fill out th

The tentative contract between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Marit

Several dozen families unexpectedly stand to gain something in the wake of the untimely death two we

The Clinton administration put new rules into effect this week that will exempt the commercial sale

Carlos Rodriguez takes Edward M. Emmett, National Industrial Transportation League president, to tas

There's no possible way to condone what happened at Newark International Airport last week, when an

Alan Greenspan's term as chairman of the Federal Reserve will expire next June, and already politica

A little-noticed event of significance happened recently: The International Tribunal for the Law of

Since Congress approved the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Uruguay Round, international

For the second time in two months, shaky economic news from Argentina has sent shock waves through i

The stock market is at record highs. The economy has been booming. So why are many of America's larg

Up to now, the results of China's modernization have been impressive. Its ranking as a trading econo

There is an old French proverb, ''Apres nous, le deluge,'' that often has been attributed to an 18th

The other day President Boris Yeltsin - spending his summer much closer to the Kremlin than usual, a

You've read the news. Microsoft is getting into a new battle. This time it's with America Online and

The House of Representatives decisively beat back this week an attempt to deny normal trade relation

Teasury Secretary Lawrence Summers got it right this week when he came to the defense of the dollar,

A congressman and an activist group have reneged on the agreement that ended the dredging crisis at

In response to Edward M. Emmett's opinion article of July 13 (Ocean Shipping Reform Act: a win-win-w

The press release and Federal Register notice were, in the Washington way, complex and wordy. They i

Within six months President Clinton and other world leaders have attended the funerals of two buttre

Shopping has replaced baseball as the national pastime and The Mall has trumped the Statue of Libert

It never fails. As soon as Microsoft announces a new product, book publishers flood the market with

I read with interest Ted Prince's column of July 15 (''The brave new world of port selection,'' Page

When a decommissioned ship arrives at India's Alang shipbreaking yard, local workers chop a coconut

Jordan's municipal elections have marked the first political success for the new king, Abdullah II.<

Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin began his first visit to the United States Sunday in Seattle

America, it's time to face reality. As we head into the new millennium, the nation's agriculture loo