Commentary

f you think currency crises and depressions are faraway problems of developing countries, think agai

The United States, since World War II, has played Santa Claus, the Good Samaritan, the giver of firs

Countless middle-aged citizens have attended class reunions to find, to their surprise, that the peo

As container shipping reform approaches, it's a fascinating exercise to look for useful lessons from

ovie stars, pro wrestlers and a beauty queen joined frogs, lizards, lobsters and dalmatians over t

For Vice President Al Gore and other promoters of environmental purity, there isn't an issue of grea

In your opinion pages Dec. 24 (''Hong Kong losing identity,'' Page 4A), Edward Neilan writes that Ho

ederal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan cracked open a door last week and let a gust of cold wind i

marketing program aimed at a very specific seg- ment of the driving public shifts into a higher gea

The Argentine peso is in the first line of fire now that the Brazilian real has gone down in flames.

This is not supposed to be a column for the lovelorn, but Valentine's Day is becoming an increasingl

It doesn't rival impeachment, Bosnia or Iraq. It can't even hold a candle to the flu. The common col

The North American Free Trade Agreement debate rages on. Public Citizen, a self-styled consumer watc

The toll from Hurricane Mitch is overwhelming: 10,000 dead, two million homeless, much of the econom

Russian President Boris Yeltsin snubbed her. Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov warned her in no uncert

The minority government formed by Turkish political veteran Bulent Ecevit of the Democratic Left Par

One shouldn't begin a column like this without noting that there is nobody in the shipping business

ost vacation paradises run advertisements that feature trim young people in breathtaking sur- roun

t long last Washington's obsession with President Clinton's affair with a White House intern could

The key ingredient to a strong and vibrant economy is a free-market system that has as little interf

Will a scarcity of fresh water be a constraint on food production and human survival in the 21st cen

In his recent article, ''Pesticide ruling will hurt exporters'' (Dec. 18, Page 1A), reporter Bill Mo

he International Olympics Committee offers a good illustration of how not to run a responsible inter

During this year's State of the Union speech, President Clinton was making a promise a minute - lite

Baseball is back in the nation's good graces. Four years after it self-destructed in a labor dispute

Imagine a company that is right there at ground zero when a new industry is about to boom and transf

During the past several years, Kazakhstan has pursued methodical, sound policies that have stabilize

The Greek childrens' revolution gets swinging at approximately 10 a.m. each day on Athens' Sacred Wa

roundhog Day isn't until Tuesday, but already signs of spring are cropping up all over the shipping

As last year opened and began to unfold, there was great uncertainty in the shipping industry in the

It's no secret that government has lost its prestige status in recent years. Surveys of students sho

he disclosure of a lobbying campaign mounted by the Office of Motor Carriers and the trucking indust

In this age of corporate downsizing, with companies doing more work with fewer employees, keeping wo

According to scientists working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research &

middle school in Baltimore is getting tough on truants by taking action against parents.The

The printing presses roll out dozens of books every year of motivational advice for salesmen and dea

There seems to be a new motto for motivation among software giants: ''I liked the products so much,

The Clinton administration's ''livability agenda'' received billion-dollar teeth in the president's

Trade is a policy area strongly rooted in the industrial-age economy. Many of its key legal concepts

One would think policymakers would have learned a few lessons from the collapse of the Thai, Korean,