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Japan's major manufacturers are poised for an investment blitz on the European Community, spreading

THE STUNNING RESULTS of Sunday's election leave Japan facing a degree of political uncertainty unkno

CURE MORE HARMFUL THAN THE DISEASE?Your July 18 editorial, "Health and Equity," makes some s

In a democracy, the future is at a disadvantage relative to the present: its voters are not here to

IN THE NAME OF PUBLIC SAFETY, President Bush has erected a trade barrier to benefit America's gun ma

In the great scheme of things, the "driftnet war" waged by the United States against Japan, South Ko

How healthy is the economy? Private analysts widely expect the Commerce Department to report

Reporters write for readers. The greatest satisfaction a reporter gets is when readers write back fo

''CONSUMER ADVOCATE" IS A PHRASE that sends a shudder through the insurance industry. Yet the hotly

THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT SPACE that is irresistible to politicians. At a time when only loose account

TREASURY SECRETARY NICHOLAS F. BRADY'S much-heralded plan to relieve the debts of developing countri

MEXICO CITY - Over the past 15 years foreign investment has been the subject of heated debate in Mex

FOR MOST OF THE 1980s, environmentalists tried in vain to convince the Environmental Protection Agen

COMPENSATION LAW ALSO HURTS MARITIMELarry Kaufman's column "Inside Talk on Transportation" i

On Feb. 10, the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiation submitted a report entitled "Ana

CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS, THE CHEMICALS that are eating away at the ozone layer, are on the way out. This

FOR A CHANGE, the inflation news is bullish: Wednesday's announcement that consumer prices rose only

It was a spectacle to make a farm state senator blush: on April Fool's Day, a freighter laden with 2

Get ready for a real treat. I shall, with no apologies and in possession of my rational faculties, b

According to the story, Cuban President Fidel Castro tells his central committee that "I have good n

The railroad industry has a simple view on the issue of substance abuse in the workplace. It is that

Stock market participants waltzed around in their own private paradise last week, oblivious to reali

THERE'S A RARE CONSENSUS on Capitol Hill that the cost of capital puts American business at an inter

AT LAST WEEKEND'S economic summit, world leaders asked the International Maritime Organization to pl

A finding by an administrative law judge at the U.S. International TradeCommission is causin

''No one can walk backwards into the future," an American writer once observed. Hopefully the United

Heaven is where the policemen are British, the cooks are French, the lovers are Italian and everythi

LAND REDISTRIBUTION IS NOT CAPITALISMHow nice that, after all, the chief economist for First

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV HAS DONE IT AGAIN. With his keen sense of timing, the Soviet leader managed to ste

ANGRY AS HORNETS, business lobbyists have been buzzing around Capitol Hill demanding the repeal of S

The roughly 300 pieces of legislation needed to pave the way for a single market within the European

There is a natural antithesis between traders, those involved in commerce between people and nations

U.S. NEGOTIATORS expect this month's bilateral aviation talks with Japan to produce only a limited l

AFTER 20 MONTHS OF WAITING for the courts to rule on the future of the short- line railroad industry

MANUFACTURING HAS BEEN the bright spot in America's productivity picture: While the service sector's

TO THE LAYMAN, foreign aid sounds like something to help developing countries feed, house and educat

For the first time in memory, big wheels in Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PR

Coming off a subdued Fourth of July, in which the once fiercely independent Americano was reduced to

WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND. BAT Industries PLC, the British conglomerate, is about to illustrate

You might say that Robert Mosbacher got off to an excessively fast start. A newcomer to Washington,