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Administration officials are wondering what they will do with the Soviet trade agreement now that th

The Federal Reserve, along with the rest of the Beltway Gang, has panicked. Growth of total bank res

IN CASE ANYONE GOT CARRIED AWAY with glad tidings last week, the Conference Board reminds us the eco

The need for surgery was urgent, the threat to his survival without it considerable. The operation w

The link between trade and environmental policies has become a hot issue on America's political agen

THE RAPID CHANGE overtaking the former Soviet Union swept into Brussels last week, where leaders of

EVEN BEFORE HE RESIGNED as the Soviet Union's last president Wednesday, historians already had writt

The recently signed transportation bill, touted by the Bush administration as manna for the starving

IN DEFENSE OF IMO TANKER STUDYYou recently published a report on an article by Sally M. Lent

NO ONE SEEMS TO LIKE the proposed world trade agreement released in Geneva last week by Arthur Dunke

THE REAL FACTS ABOUT SHIP SAFETYYour Dec. 13 article, "Ships Meet Standards, Still Pose Fire

The French philosopher La Rochefoucauld observed in his acerbic book ''Reflections" that self-intere

Citizens of Hong Kong, the ultimate free-trade territory, rarely have cause for protectionist sentim

FULL STORY ABOUT CANADA LIFECanada Life was portrayed in an incomplete manner in your July 1

After years of fruitless discussion on creating a common market, the dozen member nations of the Eng

The decision by British Prime Minister John Major to keep Britain out of the ''social charter" of th

LOOPHOLES AND LAPSES in the international codes on passenger vessel safety have allowed unsafe ships

IRAN, KNOWN FOR MILITANT RHETORIC, is turning down the verbal volume. The new byword for Ira

There will be fewer political games played with the chairmanship of the International Trade Commissi

Driving into this little town at dawn on a December morning, you see the traffic mainly coming at yo

TAX IN HASTE, repent at leisure. Last summer, California imposed an 8.25 percent sales tax o

ISOLATIONIST BLATHER is dominating the political landscape. From Patrick Buchanan's myopic "America

Twenty years ago, Julia Child's "The French Chef" became the first national television program to be

AMERICAN INSOMNIACS WHO DREAM OF trading stocks in the middle of the night - when it's daylight over

The presidentially appointed commission on ocean shipping reform, which completed another round of m

This free trade stuff is getting downright silly. In the old days, free trade meant spurring competi

Alarmed at Japan's dwindling labor force, some business leaders and economists in Japan advocate hir

IGOR DMITROWSKY is in the catbird's seat. Mr. Dmitrowsky is the president of Baltia Airlines

EVERYONE KNOWS it costs a fortune to give workers fringe benefits such as health insurance and pensi

BOUTROS GHALI, the veteran Egyptian diplomat who takes charge of the United Nations on Jan. 1, will

Years ago a Scottish singer stumbled on a sure-fire money-maker, farewell tours of America. His firs

The Bush administration may soon announce plans to extend import quotas on machine tools for several

GOVERNMENT HELPS WITH COUNTERTRADEIn your Nov. 13 article "Time to Support Countertrade" (Op

MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS are getting so big they're edging out countries on the Conference Board's

This is the make-or-break season for the fragrance industry, a multi-billion- dollar enterprise that

The Middle East conflict has been perceived for far too long as a conflict over territory. But in fa

China's alleged use of prison labor to make and export items to the United States at cut-rate prices

RAILROAD AND TRUCKING DEREGULATION saved shippers $35 billion a year in lower transportation rates d

ANDEAN COUNTRIES are casting a wary eye on U.S. labor and environmental groups out to scuttle the pr

SUPPORTERS OF A MORE CLOSELY integrated Europe won big at last week's European Community summit at M