Commentary

The Senate has agreed to consider an amendment to the Ocean Shipping Reform Act today giving non-ves

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Those who hate the income tax - roughly 99 percent of Americans - cheered when a Senate committee al

Few Americans are as plugged into the telecommunications revolution as the estimated 800,000 soft dr

As the world moves toward a truly global trading system, a frustrating stalemate has emerged in the

The president recently said we have a chance to ''fix the roof while the sun is still shining'' - a

Like pronouncements by the Delphic oracle, President Clinton's call to ''save Social Security first'

More than a few people were scratching their heads last week af- ter a speech by Treasury Secret

When Gregor Mendel cross-bred pea plants in his monastery's garden 140 years ago, he hardly suspecte

America's private colleges are reportedly increasing their tuition at the lowest rate in decades. Co

The reported death last week of mass murderer Pol Pot represents another milestone in Indochina's tr

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As Latin global leaders head home from this weekend's Summit of the Americas, they need to refocus o

The current financial crisis in Asia first surfaced in Thailand last July. Since then, the virus has

Could it be that Saddam Hussein isn't the only one with something to hide when it comes to illegal w

This weekend's Inter-American summit in Santiago, Chile, attended by President Clinton and 33 Wester

At his 25th high school reunion, one of Grant Aldonas' former classmates invited him to step outside

We don't recall when we first heard a mayor, governor or other elected official announce they weren'

As old enmities are starting to melt away around the world - U.S. humanitarian trade with Cuba after

President Clinton and 33 leaders of neighboring Western Hemisphere nations sit down together in Sant

The World Trade Organization ruling last week striking down U.S. legal protections for endangered se

As the Uruguayan daily El Pais provocatively observed, ''the hemispheric (trade integration) tracks

President Clinton faces a test over his policy toward Iran and should use the opportunity to turn th

A new movement is afoot, spreading buzzwords through America's think tanks and city halls. ''Regiona

A Mexican pundit once complained that most of his country's problems stemmed from being ''too far fr

Cutting though much of the verbiage about the planned merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group, the de

Trade analysts for some time have expected a higher trade deficit this year given the strong U.S. ec

ABANDONMENT REPORTGREATLY EXAGGERATEDWe were surprised to read in your March 11 article ''Ma

Major credit card banks, along with the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives, are t

The face of international trade is changing. This is seen not only as the Organization for Economic

An important achievement of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was its

Since its commercialization fewer than five years ago, the Internet has had to address the conflict

The Asian economic crisis seems to be receding or in a temporary pause. As Asia begins its recovery,

U.S. taxpayers won't get to vent this year, after all.But if Newt Gingrich had had his way,

All hail the euro?While European free-marketers are cheering the conversion to a new, transn

As you sign that nice fat check to the Internal Revenue Service today you may wish you'd been invite

Governments and multilateral agencies, like armies, tend to prepare for the last war. Thus the Inter

For the third time, Indonesia has managed to renegotiate the terms of an international bailout for i

In recent years, Ireland surged on many European Union economic barometers as it attracted record fo

The massive $218 billion, six-year Intermodal Surface Transportation bill passed by the House is $26