Commentary

Few Americans are as plugged into the telecommunications revolution as the estimated 800,000 soft dr

Economists depend on economic and financial data, plus the assumption that the country's economic st

More than a few people were scratching their heads last week af- ter a speech by Treasury Secret

When Gregor Mendel cross-bred pea plants in his monastery's garden 140 years ago, he hardly suspecte

As Latin global leaders head home from this weekend's Summit of the Americas, they need to refocus o

The president recently said we have a chance to ''fix the roof while the sun is still shining'' - a

America's private colleges are reportedly increasing their tuition at the lowest rate in decades. Co

TEXTILE QUOTADATA CHALLENGEDI would like to respond to two statements attributed to Ms. Laur

The reported death last week of mass murderer Pol Pot represents another milestone in Indochina's tr

Like pronouncements by the Delphic oracle, President Clinton's call to ''save Social Security first'

This weekend's Inter-American summit in Santiago, Chile, attended by President Clinton and 33 Wester

Could it be that Saddam Hussein isn't the only one with something to hide when it comes to illegal w

At his 25th high school reunion, one of Grant Aldonas' former classmates invited him to step outside

The World Trade Organization ruling last week striking down U.S. legal protections for endangered se

As old enmities are starting to melt away around the world - U.S. humanitarian trade with Cuba after

We don't recall when we first heard a mayor, governor or other elected official announce they weren'

President Clinton and 33 leaders of neighboring Western Hemisphere nations sit down together in Sant

The current financial crisis in Asia first surfaced in Thailand last July. Since then, the virus has

Cutting though much of the verbiage about the planned merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group, the de

President Clinton faces a test over his policy toward Iran and should use the opportunity to turn th

Trade analysts for some time have expected a higher trade deficit this year given the strong U.S. ec

A new movement is afoot, spreading buzzwords through America's think tanks and city halls. ''Regiona

ABANDONMENT REPORTGREATLY EXAGGERATEDWe were surprised to read in your March 11 article ''Ma

Major credit card banks, along with the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives, are t

A Mexican pundit once complained that most of his country's problems stemmed from being ''too far fr

As the Uruguayan daily El Pais provocatively observed, ''the hemispheric (trade integration) tracks

The face of international trade is changing. This is seen not only as the Organization for Economic

Governments and multilateral agencies, like armies, tend to prepare for the last war. Thus the Inter

Since its commercialization fewer than five years ago, the Internet has had to address the conflict

All hail the euro?While European free-marketers are cheering the conversion to a new, transn

As you sign that nice fat check to the Internal Revenue Service today you may wish you'd been invite

The Asian economic crisis seems to be receding or in a temporary pause. As Asia begins its recovery,

U.S. taxpayers won't get to vent this year, after all.But if Newt Gingrich had had his way,

An important achievement of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was its

To observe our dog's birthday some years ago, we solicited greetings from world leaders, informing t

The massive $218 billion, six-year Intermodal Surface Transportation bill passed by the House is $26

Japan's economy is in recession, nearly everyone is pessimistic about the near-term outlook and the

All girls are good, they say in Russia's villages. So where, they ask, do bad wives come from?

Two recent announcements dramatized how the world is changing. The next century will feature Chinese

For the third time, Indonesia has managed to renegotiate the terms of an international bailout for i