Commentary

The Greek childrens' revolution gets swinging at approximately 10 a.m. each day on Athens' Sacred Wa

Baseball is back in the nation's good graces. Four years after it self-destructed in a labor dispute

During the past several years, Kazakhstan has pursued methodical, sound policies that have stabilize

Imagine a company that is right there at ground zero when a new industry is about to boom and transf

In his recent article, ''Pesticide ruling will hurt exporters'' (Dec. 18, Page 1A), reporter Bill Mo

roundhog Day isn't until Tuesday, but already signs of spring are cropping up all over the shipping

he International Olympics Committee offers a good illustration of how not to run a responsible inter

According to scientists working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research &

In this age of corporate downsizing, with companies doing more work with fewer employees, keeping wo

he disclosure of a lobbying campaign mounted by the Office of Motor Carriers and the trucking indust

middle school in Baltimore is getting tough on truants by taking action against parents.The

As last year opened and began to unfold, there was great uncertainty in the shipping industry in the

The printing presses roll out dozens of books every year of motivational advice for salesmen and dea

It's no secret that government has lost its prestige status in recent years. Surveys of students sho

There seems to be a new motto for motivation among software giants: ''I liked the products so much,

One would think policymakers would have learned a few lessons from the collapse of the Thai, Korean,

Last Friday was the anniversary of the death of Queen Victoria. On Jan. 22, 1901, the best-loved Eng

Will Europe's greatest strength - its cultural, historical and linguistic diversity - prove to be it

Trade is a policy area strongly rooted in the industrial-age economy. Many of its key legal concepts

The Clinton administration's ''livability agenda'' received billion-dollar teeth in the president's

orget the euro. Britain should be thinking of becom ing the 51st state of America - or so says The S

Robert Mugabe, the guerrilla leader-turned president who has run the African nation of Zimbabwe for

urope has received some early rude reminders that the launch of its new currency, the euro, isn't ab

Cross a raccoon with a ''Slinky,'' and the result would look like a ferret.True, I'm not a f

Not long ago, we in Geneva were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the World Trade Organization and

Many economic experts have been predicting that South Korea will be the first of the Asian Tigers to

Remember the great management scare?Bosses came dangerously close to being fashionable.Forme

f your 10-year-old decides next month to deliver a valentine to his secret sweetheart by putting it

Science has opened a fresh path to profitability for the funeral industry, which for some time has b

So now we hear from Gregory Craig, the president's lawyer, that in addition to all the lawyerly reas

There was no news from the State Department on Jan. 4 - no news, at least, for my favorite throng of

This is not just another new year. For South Africa, 1999 is set to be momentous by any standard: th

Anyone who has sat on a train in a crowded station knows the feeling.As the train next to yo

It may come as a big surprise to learn that Southeast Asian economies are not doing as badly as the

ven as they peer cockily into the economic future, top federal officials are studiously ignoring th

As Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat noted recently, ''America has not paid enough attention

Cynthia L. Brown, in representing the American Shipbuilding Association ('' 'US-build' requirement v

he problem with trying to please everyone is that you often wind up pleasing no one. But if you're m

Nearly 180 years ago, Lord Byron wrote in his journal, ''The best of prophets is the past.'' This se

''You can't always get what you want; but if you try,sometimes - you justmight find - you ge