Commentary

TRADE AND ENVIRONMENTNEED CLOSER LINKU.S. Trade Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky's comments on

Secrecy breeds suspicion, and suspicion is what now surrounds Gus Owen, one of two members of the Su

Hopeful sales reps of America's ''Big Six'' accounting firms are barnstorming China on what could we

Central Asia is a part of the world little known to most Americans. But the tiny republic of Armenia

The era of big government may be over but apparently not the era of big government buildings.

A ''supplemental'' spending bill for almost a billion dollars in back dues to the United Nations was

Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater issued a strong statement recently saying the administration

South Africa's gold mines have been on a downhill slide for more than a decade. The price of their p

TEXTILE PACTFALLS SHORTI am compelled to respond to the letter sent to you by Troy Cribb, th

President Clinton's unfortunate tendency to let base politics overwhelm his higher aspirations to li

This year's U.S. congressional debates over funding of scientific research seem to have more to do w

In its third ballot, Russia's lower house of Parliament, the Duma, late last month confirmed Boris Y

Globalization breaks down borders - sometimes literally in the case of the European Union, andsometi

Does it get any better than this? The U.S. economy was supposed to have long since slowed down, a vi

Steps taken last weekend by 11 European Union nations toward eventually giving up their own currency

Nine years after its students rocked China's Communist leaders with their pro-democracy protests at

The Federal Reserve is back on center stage. It never completely left the stage, but the spotlight h

Every time a U.S. jury trial ends in a controversial verdict, commentators propose that juries be ab

Should taxpayer money be used to develop technologies that will be licensed to foreign firms? That q

What a difference a decade makes. Ten years ago, as U.S. semiconductor makers absorbed bodyblows fr

The American Insurance Association has this to say to candidates who complain that they're losing co

Never has the global playing field been so competitive, nor the stakes for countries and multination

Earlier this year, the line-item veto, Republicans' hard-won attempt to restrain a profligate federa

There's gold in Africa's hills but this has nothing to do with minerals. More than 400 countries and

Congress has only itself to blame for the recent litany of Internal Revenue Service abuses.F

Memo to Teamsters:Fasten your seatbelts.A wild ride is about to begin.With the elect

A lot of attention these days is devoted to the importance of worldwide brands as companies merge, s

When the economic activities of a society change, so do its employment and jobs. For example,at the

An oil-industry watchdog group has raised questions about the safety of a new $100 million system to

With public decorum in mind, the savants of the house of science generally employ silencers and padd

A yogurt container offers ironic testimony to the thesis of Lionel Jensen's new book, ''Manufacturin

Are America's 77 million baby boomers actually prepared to retire? Experts say yes, cautiously, but

If Russia's new Prime Minister, Sergei Kiriyenko, is the unelectable stand-in most politicians in Mo

The European Union glimpsed a new golden age when it approved the launch of an 11-nation monetary un

With the rise of the Margaret Thatcher-Ronald Reagan era of the 1980s, a trans-Atlantic conservative

Indonesian officials have fought to maintain subsidies and put off reforms during their Internationa

Hong Kong is protesting the U.S. Trade Representative's decision to keep it on the U.S. intellectual

After recording the strongest growth in the Group of 7 nations in 1996, Japan began tightening fisca

In remission after decades of irrational and costly prosecutions, antitrust enforcement is enjoying

In a season of clashes with Congress, the Clinton administration faces a major showdown this month w