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The irony was delicious. ''Chainsaw'' Al Dunlap, the chief executive famous for slashing jobs by the

The European Union has the best chance in years to launch a final assault on the monopolies, rigid l

''Pay for play'' is an expression etched into American political practice. What it means is that gov

As shifts in the global economy focus attention on East Asia, one of the most widely repeated foreca

For almost 20 years, the first tenet of political punditry has been that Ronald Reagan's tax cuts ne

Africa is making news again, most of it bad.The tiny West African nation of Guinea Bissau is

Greece is finally getting serious about Europe.Greece joined the (then) European Community b

Trinett Foote is many things - nurse, artist, entrepreneur, international businesswoman - and cancer

Will the world's rich nations bail out Russia? That question has been coursing through financial m

Imagine a group of suits, sitting around a table in the early 1980s, hammering out their concept of

As Congress careens toward its summer recess, and with the election only a few months away, the post

The news for Japan keeps getting worse. The government reported national output shrank 1.3 percent b

Vice President Al Gore wants the United States to adopt some combination of energy rationing and new

Picture this: You're channel surfing and flip onto cable television's Black Entertainment Network. A

Nothing captures the world's attention like the World Cup, by far the biggest sporting event on the

The Chinese have a proverb that says, ''The man who has a thousand fingers pointing at him will die,

By unanimous ballot, the arbiters of the nation's accounting rules have voted to issue a final stand

AIR CARGO BENEFITSFROM INNOVATIONMark Lyon's most recent Data Link column, ''Cargo 2000: For

Who could blame U.S. investors for being a little cautious when it comes to investing in overseas st

''Foreign news'' is being rediscovered by the American press.For most of the world's editors

Enough. Turn it off before the addiction to the space station drains more billions from NASA and wre

As a business strategy, airline alliances are as logical a step in aviation deregulation as you can

Good news for Britain - well, sort of. The European Commission, the executive arm of the 15-nation E

Is the European Union's long chapter of banana inanity about to end? Not if you consider the thrust

The U.S. chemical industry owns the trademark ''Responsible Care.'' It took out the trademark on tho

Federal officials are deciding what to do with the first unified budget surplus since 1969. This sur

The peak import season is upon us. Actually, ''peak season'' is a misnomer, given the relatively ful

To many in the environmental community, ''industry'' is synonymous with ''polluter.'' In fact, this

It is the most fundamental thing. It's how we distinguish one person from the next, one object from

Agriculture is in trouble, which is why farmers across America talk of a ''conspiracy toeliminate fa

Jesse Helms has finally found an international agreement he can live with. The chairman of theSenate

Throughout most of the 1990s, Korean carmakers have been drag-racing each other up a steep growth cu

Rarely have regulators had an easier choice. When the Surface Transportation Board met this week to

Police in five European countries last month arrested more than 80 suspected Islamic militants in a

One of the least discussed consequences of the introduction of the euro as the standard currency of

We're approaching the 40th anniversary of the world's last big famine. It occurred in China between

Over the past few months, on the New York highway between Manhattan and LaGuardia Airport in Queens,

Asenior Chinese official on Tuesday sent a reassuring sign to traders around the world: China, said

ANTI-DUMPING CRITICISMOVERLOOKS FACTSI am writing in response to the review on June 5 of my

In what is unquestionably the most bizarre event to unfold on a Los Angeles freeway, or any highway,