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The Dutch will vote for a new government tomorrow, but apart from the candidates nobody is too worri

Plastic may be the gold standard for a new millennium, but people are very reluctant to give up note

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

Following last month's Summit of the Americas, many believe the momentum has gone out of U.S. Latin

The gangplank has been rolled down, but Clinton administration officials apparently aren't ready to

Once Northern Ireland was the economic jewel of the Emerald Isle. The six counties had the coal and

Last week's Senate vote to admit Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic into the North Atlantic Trea

I was standing in front of a bookstore shelf filled with foreign-language translation guides recentl

Some business analysts have turned somewhat pessimistic about the U.S. economy recently, on the grou

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's decision last week to address Beijing's National Judges Coll

Trade financing is the lifeblood of international trade. The Asian crisis is a case in point. Many A

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

You almost feel sorry for the $200 billion International Monetary Fund, which times seems answerable

When President Clinton said he would use budget surpluses to ''fix'' Social Security, the ruse was o

The container shipping industry celebrated this week as carriers successfully raised rates in the tr

TOUGHER US LINENEEDED ON PARAGUAYYour article on the informal economy in Paraguay (''Toward

On April 2, the Senate Judiciary Committee by a bipartisan vote approved the American Competitivenes

The barmaid in the Zlata Ribica bar in Ljubljana's old town was surprised to be asked about Slovenia

Today and Saturday, European Union leaders plan to take a step that will either turn Europe into the

When Japan's Ministry of Finance, command center for the world's second-biggest economy, agreed to b

The U.S. Trade Representative recently released its 1998 National Trade Estimates report outlining f

As Congress debates the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's merits this week, the organization must

Charles Murray swung at a hornet's nest with his 1994 book ''The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class

Boys at play sometimes divide sports teams between the ''shirts'' and the ''skins.''Those in

The threatened end of a tax break that helps U.S. companies reduce taxes on their foreign operations

Today, Israel's official 50th anniversary, finds American and Israeli relations at a crossroads. Bot

Mexican officials agreed in Paris on Wednesday to eliminate tariffs beginning Aug. 1 on an estimate

East Asia's financial meltdown has policy-makers scrambling for reasons, and solutions. What was rec

President Clinton warned a group of evangelical Christian leaders Monday that the steady rise in U.S

World Wildlife Fund President Kathryn Fuller argued in this newspaper (''Green Trade Wanted'' April

Each warm evening this spring, Jordan Street has witnessed the elaborate mating rituals of the well-

Passenger ships today have a boatload full of technology that makes it unlikely they will ever star

The states of California and Texas - which enroll a fifth of the nation's students - are in the proc

Driven by Asia's financial crisis, our trade deficit will expand significantly this year, perhaps by

The U.N. Commission on Human Rights dealt the United States a stinging diplomatic rebuff last week b

The United States and Japan face immediate challenges with major implications for the global economy

Indonesia has taken another step to turn its beleaguered economy around by announcing changes to its

The recent findings of a World Trade Organization dispute settlement panel involving a U.S. law on s

Some time this year, Congress will take up the treaty on climate change negotiated in Kyoto in late

Gilbert F. Amelio is my hero.During his 17-month tenure as head of Apple Computer Inc., the