Commentary

Reports linking 1996 Democratic Party campaign fund-raising to the launching of U.S. commercial sate

Recently, relationships between railroads and their customers have been subjected to considerable sc

The European Union has the best chance in years to launch a final assault on the monopolies, rigid l

The irony was delicious. ''Chainsaw'' Al Dunlap, the chief executive famous for slashing jobs by the

Greece is finally getting serious about Europe.Greece joined the (then) European Community b

Africa is making news again, most of it bad.The tiny West African nation of Guinea Bissau is

As shifts in the global economy focus attention on East Asia, one of the most widely repeated foreca

In his recent testimony before Congress, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan acknowledged that the U.S. econ

For almost 20 years, the first tenet of political punditry has been that Ronald Reagan's tax cuts ne

''Pay for play'' is an expression etched into American political practice. What it means is that gov

Trinett Foote is many things - nurse, artist, entrepreneur, international businesswoman - and cancer

Imagine a group of suits, sitting around a table in the early 1980s, hammering out their concept of

Nothing captures the world's attention like the World Cup, by far the biggest sporting event on the

As Congress careens toward its summer recess, and with the election only a few months away, the post

Vice President Al Gore wants the United States to adopt some combination of energy rationing and new

Picture this: You're channel surfing and flip onto cable television's Black Entertainment Network. A

Will the world's rich nations bail out Russia? That question has been coursing through financial m

The news for Japan keeps getting worse. The government reported national output shrank 1.3 percent b

As a business strategy, airline alliances are as logical a step in aviation deregulation as you can

Good news for Britain - well, sort of. The European Commission, the executive arm of the 15-nation E

By unanimous ballot, the arbiters of the nation's accounting rules have voted to issue a final stand

AIR CARGO BENEFITSFROM INNOVATIONMark Lyon's most recent Data Link column, ''Cargo 2000: For

Who could blame U.S. investors for being a little cautious when it comes to investing in overseas st

The Chinese have a proverb that says, ''The man who has a thousand fingers pointing at him will die,

Enough. Turn it off before the addiction to the space station drains more billions from NASA and wre

''Foreign news'' is being rediscovered by the American press.For most of the world's editors

Is the European Union's long chapter of banana inanity about to end? Not if you consider the thrust

Federal officials are deciding what to do with the first unified budget surplus since 1969. This sur

Jesse Helms has finally found an international agreement he can live with. The chairman of theSenate

Agriculture is in trouble, which is why farmers across America talk of a ''conspiracy toeliminate fa

The peak import season is upon us. Actually, ''peak season'' is a misnomer, given the relatively ful

The U.S. chemical industry owns the trademark ''Responsible Care.'' It took out the trademark on tho

It is the most fundamental thing. It's how we distinguish one person from the next, one object from

To many in the environmental community, ''industry'' is synonymous with ''polluter.'' In fact, this

We're approaching the 40th anniversary of the world's last big famine. It occurred in China between

Asenior Chinese official on Tuesday sent a reassuring sign to traders around the world: China, said

One of the least discussed consequences of the introduction of the euro as the standard currency of

Over the past few months, on the New York highway between Manhattan and LaGuardia Airport in Queens,

Throughout most of the 1990s, Korean carmakers have been drag-racing each other up a steep growth cu

Rarely have regulators had an easier choice. When the Surface Transportation Board met this week to