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The obligatory photo op from the Vancouver summit last week with its line of 18 APEC leaders looked

The walls in the Jardine Matheson & Co. headquarters building are festooned with etchings, documents

In the Middle East, money talks - but not as loudly as politics. That's the lesson to be learned fro

Global leaders are meeting in Kyoto, Japan, this week to discuss global warming, but an industry res

The United Nations troops pulled out of Haiti Sunday, marking the end of a three-year effort by the

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UNIONS HAVESHOULDERED WHEELAn inference might be drawn from the story in The Journal of Comm

For a man so badly defeated on the battlefield six years ago, Saddam Hussein retains a remarkable ab

So Boutros Boutros-Ghali finally has his revenge. Or is it France?Forced out as secretary ge

After more than a decade of over 8 percent growth, Thailand has hit a major speed bump. A virtual fo

Media reports have not missed the irony that Teamster's President Ron Carey, who campaigned for unio

With the Asian economies falling like so many dominoes, forecasters have little concern about the U.

While most Christians in America consider Thanksgiving to be a religious holiday, there is good reas

A critical decision on the future of the U.S. military awaits the Congress. At stake is how best to

In the ever stranger realm of North Korea, there is a fascinating astronomical anomaly transpiring,

President Clinton's agreement with Chinese President Jiang Zemin permitting the sale of U.S. nuclear

The developed countries, in a last-ditch push, agreed Friday on the basic terms of a treaty to outla

The U.S. economy is growing strongly, but the rest of the global economy is in a precarious state.

The deepening financial crisis in Asia is overshadowing the earlier agenda for the summit of the Asi

Europe can be forgiven for indulging in a little schadenfreude over the financial turmoil in Asia.

Home is where the heart is. Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. There are dozens of ex

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Each of the major Class I railroads, with the exception of Conrail, is facing significant challenges

American coal producers predict that much of their industry will be eliminated over the next 10 year

Asia's financial tremors have rocked world markets, but an earthquake of a different sort hit Russia

Early in the next millennium, part-time work will likely be the norm in the United States rather tha

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has a problem. One-third of his country is owned by several thou

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's struggle to restructure Japan's intricate and powerful bureaucrac

Economics students around the country, in advance of the holidays, have been learning that Christmas

The Export-Import Bank's financial problems continue. The Clinton administration's Office of Managem

We're constantly reminded of soaring college costs and how saving money for college is a daunting ta

For the fourth time in just over a year, the warning bell has rung for science education.The

Last week's indefinite postponement of the House vote on fast-track trade negotiating authority is a

The European finance ministers are agonizing over whether to include gold in the reserves of the fut

The first question South Korean voters should ask as they go to the polls next month is why nobody w

REFORM ADVOCATES TAKELITTLE FOR WHAT THEY SAVEIt comes as no surprise that the insurance ind

The U.S. airlines never had it so good.Record profits are everywhere. Last year was just und

A lay public depends heavily on the media to translate the opaque language of scientific theory. Yet

By refusing to give the president a blank check to negotiate international trade agreements, the Hou

Bill Schneider of the American Enterprise Institute observed a while back: In 1997 there will be one