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A captive rail customer is one that relies upon a single railroad for freight transportation. A capt

For years it was an issue that lurked in the shadows of the logistics world. It was seldom spoken ab

No one can accuse the American steel industry of passivity - at least not when it comes to getting A

The job of the Federal Reserve is to take away the punch bowl just when the party starts to get good

The leaders of the Group of 7 major industrial countries plus Russia will meet in Cologne, Germany,

By seeking another legislated minimum wage increase, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., demonstrates h

When Qahraman Niyazmohammedov welcomed an old friend into his home on a sunny afternoon last March h

There is a lot of transportation activity in Washington these days. The current administration has d

Right there on the top of online auction pioneer eBay's home page (http:// www.ebay.com), there's a

Environmental protection is a tricky business. It's not only hard to know what to do, it's hard to k

More people will be working and shopping via the Internet in the 21st century, but fewer car trips t

The European Union announced last month that it would not comply with a World Trade Organization rul

The United States needs to keep control of its airline industry.Not everyone thinks so, of c

There was the hype? No brass bands! No parades! No blaring advertisements!Microsoft's new Of

The news out of Tokyo over the last few days has splashed the cold water of reality onto the surge o

In case anyone missed it, the curtain went up on the hurricane season just over two weeks ago. Arlen

''What am I supposed to eat these days? Kangaroo meat? Buffalo burgers? Shark steaks?''The e

President Clinton earlier this month announced his decision to extend for another year China's norma

Telemedicine has the potential to dramatically expand access to quality health care.An outgr

CSX and Norfolk Southern are finding out in practice what crooner Neil Sedaka knew back in 1962 when

In December 1997, the Clinton administration signed the Kyoto Protocol, a United Nations treaty comm

The European Union says it will pick up most of the tab for the economic and humanitarian catastroph

Whatever else might be said about him, Steve Forbes, the long-shot Republican presidential contender

''What it boils down to,'' opined a European Commission official in Brussels, ''is that Americans do

It's always sad to hear of the demise of a company. It's particularly hard to take when it involves

Former Maritime Administrator Warren Leback created a bit of a storm in the maritime community by hi

U.S. foreign policy has never been perfect, but seldom has it been as dangerously self-destructive a

Two things are certain about American Airlines' cavalier treatment of Peruvian President Alberto Fuj

According to a fresh Moscow version of an old anecdote, Russian President Boris Yeltsin comes out of

Pay attention the next time you hear some of the Clinton administration's warm and fuzzy goals for A

Not many things in life are certain, but one of them is that export controls will be tightened as a

Since Chairman Mao's revolution succeeded in driving China's nationalist government to the island of

If a proposed highway improvement project has passed every environmental test required by the federa

New words are slipping into the workplace vocabulary because of a cartoon character and some mouse p

t's tempting to get carried away with optimism over the latest developments in the Balkans. Don't.

The fallout from NATO's intervention in Yugoslavia, even as it begins to look successful, is now in

Like Claude Rains in ''Casablanca,'' some transportation-industry people are pronouncing themselves

Almost every claim made for the euro when the decision was taken at Maastricht in 1991 to create a s

Herbert Hoover was responsible for the worst economic disaster in the history of the world and Bill

Now, granted, I was straightening up around the apartment at the time. But still, I thought I was sa