Commentary

Each year, the federal government receives $4 billion in revenue from oil and natural-gas royalties.

Despite a lack of any credible evidence that inflation is a threat to the U.S. economy now or in the

What happens on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum w

Vice President Al Gore was asked last week to join an activist group and a congressman in reneging o

It is somewhat ironic that the Year 2000 problem has become known as Y2K. This shorthand method of n

Your editorial, ''He was a merchant mariner'' (Aug. 19, Page 7), and the Aug. 26 letter from Joe M.

We all know managing with an eye to the environment is a socially responsible thing to do. But incre

At the beginning of the 19th century the French led a revolution that introduced a new age of politi

There are two broad symptoms of an economy experiencing excessive demand growth.One is infla

Weeks after the earthquake, various issues related to Turkey's disaster still dominate the country's

This is to comment on the Aug. 17 opinion article headlined ''Danger on digital John Hancocks'' (Pag

In today's world, fax is fast and signatures on faxes are legal. So, if you absolutely, positively h

Over the past few years, as the debate becomes more shrill over globalization and the impact of incr

Less than a year after leading the Social Democrats to a stunning election triumph that ended nearly

Railroad executives can be excused if they have a sense of deja vu. Twenty years after deregulation,

There are only two explanations for what the Indonesian government has been doing in the bloody anar

Over the past year, ports along the East Coast of North America dealt with a new reality as we respo

I wanted to start off this column with a question about the FastShip venture, but first please allow

Close to one in four Americans is now an independent worker rather than an employee, and for most th

The spotlight will be on Chinese shipping issues this month, and the Federal Maritime Commission wil

Some people are quick to get annoyed when anyone telephones them by mistake. Some get understandably

Ronald Babula, in his lengthy Aug. 17 letter (''Data reject notion of mercantilistic Japan rate poli

Even though it is a small and landlocked Alpine country, Switzerland has become the home base for a

On Oct. 1, Hapag-Lloyd will undergo the most radical transformation of its business in nearly 30 ye

For years, companies focused on cost-cutting to improve profitability. To achieve those same results

As collective bargaining and the National Labor Relations Act have diminished in importance in labor

This has been a difficult summer for the Taipei-Beijing-Washington triangle.The Belgrade emb

Our best public holidays are meant as times of celebration and reflection. We're supposed to enjoy o

The latest formal efforts to put the stalled peace process in Northern Ireland back in motion are sc

The Clinton administration just received a sharp reminder from a new quarter that the nation's curre

The Japanese yen has risen more than 12 percent against the dollar in the last three months, and the

James A. Dorn (''Expand trade relations between US and China,'' Aug. 17, Page 7) trotted out the sam

Earlier this year, President Clinton announced moves to enhance support of the Cuban people and prom

Monday is Labor Day. While the holiday has come to signify the end of summer and the return to schoo

It sounded pretty bad at the time. Somebody had made up a phony Bloomberg News Service Web page repo

Florida's tomato growers are giving new definition to ''vine ripe.'' In an effort to get tomatoes to

The writer of the opinion article headlined ''Buying a car without price information'' (Aug. 31, Pag

Russia's foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, angrily laid much of the blame in a major money-laundering s

Tim Sansbury's Aug. 9 article headlined ''AAPA chief hails dredging breakthrough'' (Page 3) discusse

Some numbers just hit you in the face. The U.S. labor force is projected to keep growing, reaching 1