Commentary

People who smoke at work are likely to be marked down on job performance because of it, reducing bot

Struck by millennium fever, Sir Leon Brittan, the European Union's top trade official, has a grand v

British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrives here this week at a time of political peril for his friend

Television's Oprah Winfrey didn't invent the game of scaring people about their food anymore than Bi

COMPANY REPUTATIONNO LAUGHING MATTER We are writing regarding the article titled ''Happy New

On Tuesday, Brazil announced a record January trade deficit of $717 million, up from $413 million a

In his State of the Union speech late last month, President Clinton said the ''overriding'' environm

China is renewing its efforts to woo its most implacable foe, Taiwan, less than two years after test

The United States is being asked to deposit $18 billion with the International Monetary Fund to enab

LOWER PORT ASSESSMENTSREDUCE EVERYONE'S COSTSI am writing in response to a letter from John

In his State of the Union speech, President Clinton committed his administration to acting to end ch

The preliminary agreement reached Friday on new U.S.-Japan bilateral aviation rights leaves much to

Like a new car that unexpectedly develops serious faults, the 1997 model of globalization has been r

Red lights flashing and sirens blaring, the cars roar up to the barricade of a heavily fortified whi

Customs has a new plan to root out drugs from commercial shipments by helping Latin American enforce

When President Clinton was plunged into a new scandal recently, France scoffed. A head of state in t

Social Security may have an uncertain future in the United States - President Clinton's announcement

The rise in residential telephone rates as an outgrowth of the telecommunications act has caught law

Britain is facing one of the knottiest questions in its long history of dealing with its neighbors:

If bandits staked out a U.S. business district and obstructed customers, there would be hell to pay.

Numbers in Washington are not right or wrong. They are either useful or they are not. That's how one

After D-Day in 1944, Winston Churchill said, ''This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of

GOLD BUGSDON'T SHINEThe letter published Dec. 8 on Page 6A written by Alfred Peterson in res

Once again, as has happened almost annually since Iraq lost the Persian Gulf War, we are on the brin

CUTS IN PORT ASSESSMENTSLOWER COSTS FOR EVERYONEIn a letter to the editor on Jan. 22 (Page 6

In spite of the best efforts of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to maintain consumer price s

We should have seen the Asian crisis coming. You do not have to be a financial analyst to know that

War has a way of claiming innocent victims, and the new ''war on drugs'' declared by the Customs S

As the 15th People's Congress approaches, the Chinese government stands at a crossroads. The directi

In today's debates over tobacco control, it's easy to mistake tactics for goals.Tactics are

Week two of the Monica Lewinsky vs. President Clinton affair, and already the media feel huge remo

Organized labor, which defeated the White House on ''fast-track'' trade authority last year, has bee

Poor Fidel Castro.He scores a tremendous coup by getting the pope to come to Cuba, only to h

What if you had found yourself living in Weimar Germany in the late 1920s, knowing what Hitler and t

There are two ways to look at President Clinton's State of the Union speech. It was either a blatant

East Asia's rapid credit deterioration over the past six months with previous investment-grade count

Last week, Lee Siu-wo decided to stop struggling. The 48-year-old unemployed transport worker leapt

Top officials at Japan's most powerful agency are dropping quickly. Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzu

Look who's getting hooked on tobacco.Uncle Sam, after fighting tobacco for years, has sudden

There is growing evidence that Asia's impact on U.S. corporate earnings will be offset by a cyclical