Commentary

here are, as the purveyors of time-worn adages tell us, two sides to every coin. And some things ill

he Erika was no Exxon Valdez, but it could have a bigger impact on world shipping than the infamous

President Clinton's biggest battle with Congress in this, his final year in office, will be over tra

While others in Asia talk e-commerce and globalization, Singapore is ''walking the walk.'' Its leade

We live in an environment of mergers and acquisitions. That's the case not only in shipping, but als

The U.S. government must often feel that it is damned if it engages economically with the rest of th

A century ago, when Vienna flourished as the co-capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, immigrants f

MINNEAPOLIS- ST. PAUL STAR TRIBUNE:It has become one of Washington's least productive ritual

ho says American schoolkids are the only ones who have a less-than-comprehensive understanding of wh

here isn't much disagreement, thankfully, over how to approach the Internet security crisis. The dif

This is a flawed statistic, but it's jarring nevertheless: Of the eight largest U.S. airlines, the o

Buried in the new Clinton administration budget is an additional $21 million for enforcing trade agr

What is the likely outcome from the hearing on ocean carrier antitrust immunity that Rep. Henry Hyde

In Davos, Switzerland, and other venues, Americans have been lecturing the Europeans and Japanese ab

t's beginning to hit people: The e-commerce revolution that's sweeping the press and the public cons

The Japan Fair Trade Commission is expected to render a decision shortly that could have far-reachin

ive them credit for boundless optimism, if nothing else.An investor group plans to rent the

orget for a moment the difficulties of business communications when two or more languages are involv

At first I thought there was something wrong with my computer.I was sitting the other day in

Question: What if the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Group of Seven industrial-

ven as small knots of protestors made a nuisance of themselves outside the United Nations trade conf

Last November, Federal Highway Administrator Kenneth Wykle outlined the transportation challenge ahe

What are the fundamental forces guiding business? Can capitalism co-exist with humanism? What is lea

While the French seem keen to benefit from Britain's mistakes in handling its mad-cow disease crisis

Railroad stock prices and market capitalization are in a depression not seen since the days before d

The arrival of the new millennium has brought a focus at the United Nations Security Council back on

he United Nations Conference on Trade and Development had billed its quadrennial summit meeting this

ranted, the word came from just a couple of shippers instead of a detailed national poll. And yes, i

If music is your life - if you can't live without tunes ricocheting off your eardrums - then you hav

Steady shifts in the sources of money for research and development raise a host of troubling questio

The bushwhackers who hit the Internet's top commercial sites served notice that, despite widespread

The latest economic news is in, and it's heartening. American worker productivity shot up at a spect

he United States and the European Union are heading in opposite directions on an important issue in

he ABC game show ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' excels at building tension in its viewers - and,

Bulk mailers are in full outcry over a European Court of Justice ruling that seems to stamp out a lu

In at least one area, the U.S. economic expansion has left a trail of destruction in its wake: On it

The Clinton administration must be positively blushing over the back-to-back huzzahs from some of it

A couple of occurrences this week have turned my thoughts back to the basics.As we all keep

Whose mother hasn't said it? You know, ''Wear clean underwear. You never know when you might be in a

he hearing promised by Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., into a key component of ocean shipping reform is sti