Commentary

Under headlines like ''Surplus to Soar,'' the Congressional Budget Office's just-released Budget and

I agree with former Maritime Administrator Warren Leback (''U.S. maritime industry past the Band-Aid

The busted forecast for last week's East Coast snowstorm points to a very troubling aspect of modern

If common carriage isn't dead, it's at least on life support.For those readers who do not re

resident Clinton ardently straddled the sides of the globalization issue over the weekend, eloquentl

ritain is officially a member of the European Union, but not all its citizens are entirely convinced

You've probably seen the Macintosh commercials on television that show how you can direct, edit and

Within a fortnight or so, an epoch ends: Michel Camdessus retires after 13 years of heading the Inte

Last September, when Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met his Canadian counterpart, Jean Chretien, for

The Shakers were a 19th century Christian sect, largely in upstate New York and New England, that di

If nothing else, the euro's slide below parity with the dollar last week focused the attention of 29

he good news is that auto theft in Brazil isn't nearly as bad as statistics indicate. The bad news i

Your cargo - say, an expensive piece of industrial machinery - was seriously damaged somewhere betwe

The government's revised encryption rules have arrived, and while many of the old restrictions are g

Your article on the recent decision by the California Superior Court concerning the tax status of ce

It's just past 9 a.m. on a Tuesday, and Bob Mulshine is talking lunch.The menu isn't importa

The merger of AOL and Time Warner may be grabbing headlines, but other high-profile mergers in recen

There's growing concern in the international financial community about the U.S. economy. If there wa

f nothing else, President Clinton is a compelling speaker and a masterly politician - two attributes

I hope that those who don't have much interest in Montreal and the North Atlantic trades will forgiv

Pessimists have found plenty of reasons in recent years to trash South Africa's economic prospects.<

What will become of Elian Gonzalez, the boy, now in Florida, who survived a boat accident that claim

The most frequently cited cause for the breakdown of the World Trade Organization's ministerial meet

Following the arrival of a largely Y2K-bug-free new year, there has been much public questioning abo

hese are days of dark uncertainty on the world trade scene, days that are both unsettled and unsettl

Prunes put off young people who think of them as an old person's laxative. So the Prune Council is t

apanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi apparently thinks there should be more to international summit m

SMART GROWTH OFFERSAMPLE OPPORTUNITIESTO HIGHWAY INDUSTRY''A place for smart growth

THE NEWS & OBSERVER(Raleigh, N.C.):In a speech to the U.N. Security Council, Jesse H

The world's export farmers recently got a terrific present for the 21st century: The 15-country Euro

The recent growth of international trade represents a key change in the world's economic system. Thi

It's an elegant form of highway robbery by an exporter cartel.Oil price increases from a low

Well, here we are with Windows 2000 bursting onto the scene as the linchpin of Microsoft's latest sa

It's certainly true that Japan has been less than eager to own up to barbaric behavior before and du

Children find it amusing to unknot balloons and let them deflate noisily, as the exiting air powers

Indians stormed Ecuador's empty congressional building last week, demanding the ouster of President

If a bettor were placing an early book wager on the proposed merger of Canadian National Railway Inc

Breaking with the past is even more important to many people as we enter a new millennium.Th

Two federal lawmakers from New Jersey demanded that the Army Corps of Engineers hold a hearing on a

MARAD'S NEW SURVEYGIVES COMPREHENSIVEPICTURE OF US FLEETThe Journal of Commerce's Ja