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trip away all the rhetoric and the question facing Congress and the Clinton administration is simple

he award of the first contract for deepening New York Harbor's key container ship channel, the Kill

Vice President Al Gore may be lampooned as a conformist stiff, but the fact is, he's running a campa

Even as Mexico's chief executive, Ernesto Zedillo, strives to shape a mechanism for selecting a winn

Recent polls indicate that the already fragile support for free trade and globalization in this coun

China's bid to join the World Trade Organization has heated up once more after two years of on-again

Urging U.S. businesses that import goods from China to ''be prepared to abandon hardwood packaging a

Language can do a lot of things. It can inspire, educate, inform, amuse and empower. And, in Europe

Two points in particular came across loud and clear in Federal Maritime Commissioner John Moran's

he collision that killed 11 and injured 127 in Illinois Monday was a dramatic - and sickening - exa

The great 20th century contest between capitalism and communism was fought by two enemies, Washingto

It's an old rule of management that when you build a better mousetrap, the mice get smarter.

What I've always loved about the folks inside the Washington Beltway is how they can never make up t

President Clinton's apology for U.S. support of Guatemalan governments that engaged in mass slaughte

When the Customs Service issues its annual accountability report this spring, one key statistic will

he World Trade Organization's agreement on liberalizing trade in financial services came into effect

The crisis that has hit emerging-market economies around the world may not yet be fully over, but th

Computer and mathematical skills beat political skills hands down, at least in a ranking of 250 U.S

In Iran's municipal elections at the end of February, voters decisively backed the reformist agenda

The long awaited changes to the U.S. Shipping Act go into effect in less than 60 days, on May 1, and

On our way south in January, we stayed overnight as usual in Walterboro, S.C. On the way to breakfas

The dry cargo and tanker fixtures listed herewith and compiled in London and New York, include the f

Okay, I'm guilty. So sue me! I confess! I receive review copies of software, put them aside (actuall

I am an aficionado of your columnist Theodore Prince. The man comes through as a know-it-all nerd, a

Scaring people about pesticides means scaring them away from eating fruits and vegetables. That pres

he European Union hit a new low in its 42-year history Tuesday with the unprecedented mass resignati

There's no mistaking whose office you're visiting at 345 Park Ave. in Manhattan.Even if it

In a classic scene from a Woody Allen movie, the son asks his father who's the boss in their family.

Winning a legislative battle on Capitol Hill is easier when you play defense because laws are diffic

Over the past few weeks, Japan's central bank has moved to ease monetary policy by lowering overnigh

When research shows that ''aggressive driving'' is less of a problem in New York and Boston than in

The sliding value of the euro, Europe's single currency, during late February and early March gave n

he European Union took a significant step last week toward untangling its Byzantine farm-subsidy pr

(Because of a production error, the letter and editor's note below did not appear in the correct seq

It was supposed to be the savior of mankind. But it turned out to be one of science's most notorious

Did we ask?That's the first question on everyone's lips after they hear the new Bob Dole, th

By the end of 1999, a new line-up of presidents, kings, emirs and sheiks could rule the states of th

Decide where to lay blame.It was just after 9 p.m. when the crew, tired from loading cargo,

In August 1996, Bruce Barron, a New Hampshire lawyer, pulled his station wagon into the garage at a

So here is greater Tokyo, the world's largest city by population and with the third-best stock marke