Commentary

Earlier this year, President Clinton announced his support for a bold Africa trade initiative which

Farmers from Canada, the United States and Mexico have come up with a good, though by no means uniqu

The Federal Railroad Administration is again turning up the heat under the Union Pacific Railroad, s

NS' SAFETY REPUTATIONIS WORSE THAN ITS RECORDJames McClellan, vice president of strategic pl

As China's President Jiang Zemin wraps up his U.S. trip, one thing is clear. There were no dramatic

President Clinton's sudden change of heart on the Internal Revenue Service overhaul bill must strike

For a gambler, the Internet is a tempting target. By typing in the address ''www.funscape.com'' on a

France and Greece both signaled in their own small ways this week that the European Union is working

Both President Clinton and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan have recently said now is the tim

U.S. trade officials went to Tokyo this week brandishing a complaint that the Japanese government is

It was a long time in coming, but merger mania is finally sweeping continental Europe. European merg

In forcing a showdown with Japan over port access earlier this month, Federal Maritime Commission Ch

PRIVATIZATIONOF AMTRAK WRONGIf a patient were on the brink of dying of starvation, would the

During a week of topsy-turvy market gyrations sparked by mismanaged Southeast Asian economies, a som

It was more than a century after the founding of the United States before George Washington was comm

Here we go again. About 25 years ago it was IBM, now it's Microsoft. The U.S. Justice Department jus

FMC'S CREELDESERVES PRAISEI refer to your front page Oct. 20 article (''Creel pushes himself

Were life but computer-generated charts, Americans who work on and live near the nation's ubiquitous

As China's president, Jiang Zemin, prepares to return home, the question remains: Does China want Wo

How does it feel to be in the middle of a fight between the United States and the European Union, to

To say that Hong Kong was responsible for Monday's decline on the New York Stock Exchange is grossly

Since July, Hong Kong has been the scene of momentous change. For the first time in history, a commu

Appeasement. Cowardice. Kow-towing.Bill Clinton has been accused of all these, and more, as

The news media has been abuzz with the Coast Guard's recent ''blockading'' of Japanese ships from U.

Nations grow increasingly skittish about foreign influence. U.S. voters balk at hemispheric integrat

The Feds are after Microsoft again, and this time, they may well have a case. There is evidence Micr

For most Americans, the financial futures and options exchanges are one of this country's recognized

Fretting about your lack of height gets you nowhere. Or as the Bible, backed up by modern medical sc

Rabbi David Ariel Yoel arrived at his synagogue early one morning during this month's religious holi

Given its relatively short tenure on the world stage, Kia Motors has made a lot of skid marks. South

Europe's second-largest country can't join Europe.Turkey will suffer yet another snub in its

The safety record of nuclear power plants in the United States is impressive. A steady reduction in

In the relentless race for new markets, few corporations can match the quirky imagination of South K

Like everything else in our hilariously subjective universe, when historians assemble to rank our 41

The budget deficit for the fiscal 1997 dropped to $22.6 billion, the lowest shortfall since 1974. On

The U.S. embargo against Cuba, extended to third-country Cuban investors through the 1996 Helms-Burt

The soldiers' legs literally had holes in them, great brown craters where the radiation had gnawed a

Free trade is on top of every business community's priority agenda. On paper, that is. In reality, b

The U.S. government has decided that the EMU will fly. That's a significant change of attitude that

The current economic expansion soon will be the longest in the nation's history. Indeed, except for