Commentary

In his State of the Union speech late last month, President Clinton said the ''overriding'' environm

China is renewing its efforts to woo its most implacable foe, Taiwan, less than two years after test

On Tuesday, Brazil announced a record January trade deficit of $717 million, up from $413 million a

Television's Oprah Winfrey didn't invent the game of scaring people about their food anymore than Bi

People who smoke at work are likely to be marked down on job performance because of it, reducing bot

Customs has a new plan to root out drugs from commercial shipments by helping Latin American enforce

LOWER PORT ASSESSMENTSREDUCE EVERYONE'S COSTSI am writing in response to a letter from John

Red lights flashing and sirens blaring, the cars roar up to the barricade of a heavily fortified whi

In his State of the Union speech, President Clinton committed his administration to acting to end ch

When President Clinton was plunged into a new scandal recently, France scoffed. A head of state in t

Like a new car that unexpectedly develops serious faults, the 1997 model of globalization has been r

The preliminary agreement reached Friday on new U.S.-Japan bilateral aviation rights leaves much to

The United States is being asked to deposit $18 billion with the International Monetary Fund to enab

Numbers in Washington are not right or wrong. They are either useful or they are not. That's how one

Social Security may have an uncertain future in the United States - President Clinton's announcement

Britain is facing one of the knottiest questions in its long history of dealing with its neighbors:

If bandits staked out a U.S. business district and obstructed customers, there would be hell to pay.

Once again, as has happened almost annually since Iraq lost the Persian Gulf War, we are on the brin

GOLD BUGSDON'T SHINEThe letter published Dec. 8 on Page 6A written by Alfred Peterson in res

The rise in residential telephone rates as an outgrowth of the telecommunications act has caught law

After D-Day in 1944, Winston Churchill said, ''This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of

We should have seen the Asian crisis coming. You do not have to be a financial analyst to know that

CUTS IN PORT ASSESSMENTSLOWER COSTS FOR EVERYONEIn a letter to the editor on Jan. 22 (Page 6

Week two of the Monica Lewinsky vs. President Clinton affair, and already the media feel huge remo

In spite of the best efforts of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to maintain consumer price s

In today's debates over tobacco control, it's easy to mistake tactics for goals.Tactics are

As the 15th People's Congress approaches, the Chinese government stands at a crossroads. The directi

Organized labor, which defeated the White House on ''fast-track'' trade authority last year, has bee

War has a way of claiming innocent victims, and the new ''war on drugs'' declared by the Customs S

Last week, Lee Siu-wo decided to stop struggling. The 48-year-old unemployed transport worker leapt

There are two ways to look at President Clinton's State of the Union speech. It was either a blatant

What if you had found yourself living in Weimar Germany in the late 1920s, knowing what Hitler and t

East Asia's rapid credit deterioration over the past six months with previous investment-grade count

Top officials at Japan's most powerful agency are dropping quickly. Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzu

There is growing evidence that Asia's impact on U.S. corporate earnings will be offset by a cyclical

Look who's getting hooked on tobacco.Uncle Sam, after fighting tobacco for years, has sudden

Poor Fidel Castro.He scores a tremendous coup by getting the pope to come to Cuba, only to h

Forget the Asian debt crisis. To understand the truly crippling effects of too much foreign debt, th

As NASA journeys into space in the interest of science, businesses are doing their own exploring in

When the Justice Department urged the Surface Transportation Board in 1996 to ''just say no'' to the