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Move over, Dick Tracy: I'm wearing a PC on my wrist.Well, it's actually more like a personal

mong the keen observers of last week's mega-merger of Time Warner and America Online were Europe's t

n 1994, and again in 1996, trade negotiators failed to make maritime services part of a global deal

Now that the dust has settled on millennium fever, it's worth analyzing the meaning of the 20th cent

Back in the 1950s, West Germany produced what was widely hailed as an economic miracle by building a

The five Central Asian nations that became independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union eight y

Your article, ''Who's responsible for maintenance? DOT wants to know'' (Jan. 5, Page 1), struck a ne

It's almost a decade since a South Korean shipping line, Hanjin Shipping, teamed up with Taiwan's Ya

As anyone in container shipping knows, good economic times and expanding trade don't always go hand

Did you hear the giant sucking sound as U.S. companies fled below the Rio Grande? Has your life been

To bastardize George Orwell, all mistakes are dumb, but some mistakes are dumber than others.

veryone likes peace and quiet. But it's all too possible to put tranquility above more important iss

It's official. President Clinton this week began an all-out campaign to win congressional approval o

We have failed in launching a broad new round of talks to liberalize world trade. But in spite of th

The growth of international trade has forced governments to become vigilant about protecting their e

In the bustling Suq al Hamidiya, the main thoroughfare of Old Damascus' warren of street markets, th

Being the good New Yorker I am, I have no idea who my next-door neighbor is. But I do know one thing

he Japanese yen hit four-year highs against the dollar in December, setting off alarm bells at the B

t's always wise to heed the old advice to look before you leap - even if you're leaping in a most pr

In the Persian Gulf War, the military had a name for its system of conveying orders to aircraft carr

Yemen should be one of the most thriving nations in the Middle East, not reporting increasing levels

Once again Congress is attempting to stem the hemorrhaging that continues to beset the maritime indu

With war having been declared on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe-Canadian National merger by the fo

Hereinafter, the word ''hereinafter'' is off limits. Same goes for ''hereby,'' ''whatsoever'' and ''

n open letter to railroad customers from four major railroad companies inspires a visceral, non-tran

The folks at Microsolutions Inc. have taken portability to another level with their new Bantam CD Re

he question of who should pay for harbor dredging is moving further from, not closer to, resolution.

Europe continued to spring surprises into the new millennium, promising to be the continent to watch

The World Trade Organization Trade Policy Review Mechanism - the TPRM - is potentially one of the mo

Moves that backfire, products that don't do what they ought to: These are serious mishaps that hurt

t's not your usual case of a government declaring English the official language.Reuters repo

nly days into the new century, the two words that regularly dominated and distorted trans-Atlantic t

The New Year has started with a rush in the shipping world, and I, for one, am very pleased.

When Jesse Ventura was running for governor of Minnesota last year, the world-trade issue was off th

o, it wasn't the feared Y2K computer bug. Unfortunately, it might have been easier to understand and

NEWS ITEM: The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration issues an advisory opinion that em

he issue presented a study in contrasts as the critical moment moment neared and passed.In W

Trade-wise, we may be about to be treated to the most productive session of Congress in more than ha

On the threshold of a new century and new millennium, global environmentalists continue to see human

Once upon a time, back in the 1960s, I set forth as a lifelong rail buff to save the American passen