Commentary

Free trade is on top of every business community's priority agenda. On paper, that is. In reality, b

The U.S. government has decided that the EMU will fly. That's a significant change of attitude that

The current economic expansion soon will be the longest in the nation's history. Indeed, except for

When the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court threw out this summer the wrongful-discharge case of J

Free trade in the Americas is good for the United States, but both political parties are so paralyze

Perhaps the notion that I have pushed hardest at people in recent years has been that television is

Opinion polls often show Congress among the least respected arms of government. Now the august body

Of all the upheavals sweeping post-apartheid South Africa, few are more profound but less publicized

Last February in Geneva, 69 countries representing 90 percent of the $600 billion global telecommuni

The restructuring of Conrail and the division of its operation between Norfolk Southern Corp. and CS

Trickle down, railroad style. The proposed carve-up of Conrail by CSX Corp. and Northern Southern is

Just over a decade ago, several governors appeared on the Phil Donahue show to beg General Motors Co

The 1990s have not been kind to Japan. Beset by financial calamities and a few self-inflicted wounds

There is a standard, almost reflexive, response to someone with whom one disagrees: He is an ideolog

In December of 1991, when European leaders met in the Dutch town of Maastricht to agree on the crite

The news Wednesday that Swiss-Swedish engineering company ABB Asea Brown Boveri will eliminate 10,00

John P. Fullam, the federal judge who reorganized Penn Central, never liked Amtrak. ''It sounds too

So, you've invented the proverbial better mousetrap, and now you're afraid the first thing it's goin

When the U.S.-Ukraine Joint Commission on Trade and Investment - led by Vice President Al Gore and P

Independent analysts have taken a look at U.S. anti-dumping laws recently and found them unfair, bia

As the sherpas scurry furiously, the stage is being set for next week's Washington summit between P

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The Reichstag, the giant stone building that survived arson in the Hitler era and massive war damage

Last month, the House voted to increase the annual budget of the U.S. Trade Representative's Office

At a time when it's taking big steps to open overseas markets and encourage free trade, the Clinton

Reserve Bank of India Governor C. Rangarajan will likely try again today to boost Indian economic gr

As the House of Representatives gets set to vote on President Clinton's request for renewed fast-tra

During the same week that the acerbic political satirist, Dario Fo, won the Nobel Prize for literatu

When the Telecommunications Act was enacted in 1996, it was hailed as a revolution in the phone bu

Indicating the increasing stature of women in the American corporate world, transferred women are no

Global bureaucracies are an easy target, and the World Trade Organization has been no exception. But

China is at another crossroads in its long, proud and turbulent history, except this time the road i

Over the past decade, America's trade deficit has caused much consternation among consumers and poli

Prospects for a worldwide deal to boost trade in financial services seem to be improving.The

Historians might expect the New York Stock Exchange to mark today's 10th anniversary of Black Monday

PRIVATE INPUTOVERLOOKEDYour reporter's account of the reunion of Kennedy Round alumni (Oct.

The world's shipowners are preparing for far-reaching changes in shipping safety regulations but the

Much printer's ink is being used this month to acknowledge the 10th anniversary of Monday, Oct. 19,

The upcoming visit of China's President Jiang Zemin to the United States represents both a watershed

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