Commentary

Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz is politically savvy, and probably right, when he says his count

The European Parliament is not held in high esteem by those it claims to represent. A legislature th

PLASTICS RECYCLINGIS A GROWING BUSINESSYour recent opinion piece by Richard Denison (''Plast

U.S. insurance companies are following their British counterparts by excluding millennium bomb cover

The buzz about electronic commerce is that it's the wave of the future for state and local governmen

Last week, President Ernesto Zedillo surprised the international community by announcing that Treasu

The signing last week of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development convention crimin

Asian crisis or not, global trade will grow by as much as 7 percent next year, the World Trade Organ

U.S. trading partners may challenge the Clinton administration's view that $400 million in subsidies

A European Union charge that an obscure provision in the U.S. tax code unlawfully subsidizes exports

By eliminating more than $5 billion in annual taxpayer subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, we cou

America's toy shoppers are racing down the homestretch now, and they're expected to spend even more

A miasma of what might be described as ''low-intensity suspicion'' surrounds South Africa's deputy p

Of all the deficits afflicting Asia these days, none is more detrimental to the region's recovery th

Due to an editing error, an opinion piece on Dec. 18 Page 6A under the headline ''No dispute: The WT

GENERAL AVERAGE: THE CASEOF 3 GUYS AND A VOYAGETom Baldwin's column on the Mediterranean Shi

Why do companies and government agencies continue to use outmoded technologies to clean up contamina

For 20 years, U.S. businesses lost billions of dollars in overseas business deals to unscrupulous fo

There's no doubt that last week's British government conference on Nazi gold was a great achievement

China roundly applauded this week's decision by the European Commission to recognize some of its ref

California Gov. Pete Wilson recently struck a small but significant blow against the massive civil l

The Asian contagion is spreading. After speculative bubbles burst in erstwhile economic powerhouses

The U.S. government, at last, seems to have a sustained interest in the development of sub-Saharan A

Philadelphians are celebrating. After months of negotiations, the city completed a deal this week wi

There is good news for Americans despite last week's preliminary ruling by a World Trade Organizatio

KYOTO SUPPORTERSIGNORE REAL COSTSRobert Repetto and Cresencia Maurere argue (''Climate Pact

Santa may still come via Ohio, the home of America's three top toy manufacturers. But he is getting

It's the consumer-protection news of the season. Some brands of hanging icicle lights, a favorite it

No sooner had President Clinton made the momentous decision to get a dog than the questions began.

The projected computer meltdown in the year 2000 caused by the so-called millennium bug is more than

On the very day the president of the Bundesbank and a senior German politician suggested it might be

Critics of the financial services agreement just reached in Geneva say it doesn't go far enough. Sup

The U.S. shipping industry was recently given a loud warning about the fragility of the 1916 law tha

Here's one for you: Why did the travel agents postpone their meeting in Washington last week?

The local elections held last month in Taiwan drove home two points that should be taken to heart by

The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that U.S. employment and wage growth for November w

In an unprecedented decision, the European Union's court ruled that France ''restricted trade'' by l

U.S. policy in the Middle East - more specifically the Persian Gulf - has always been based on the b

It's unusual for the Environmental Protection Agency to announce a full-scale review of a new regula

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad's call this weekend for Southeast Asia to buy locally and