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Reform of the electric power industry - already under way in most states - may save consumers many b

THE SHRINKING USPRESENCE IN SHIPPINGThe recent acquisition of APL by Neptune Orient Lines is

Now that NATO and Russia have cemented their relations with a new charter, the last diplomatic obsta

Throughout history, every great change has been accompanied by demands by its opponents to ''just go

Congress and the White House are about to examine the biggest no-fault plan in U.S. history: the pro

To Jacques Delors, the European Union's summit in Amsterdam last week was a ''flop.'' To his success

While all eyes are on the booming markets of Southeast Asia, companies are seizing business opportun

DON'T JUDGE JAPANBY AMERICAN VALUESThe article, ''U.S. executives say Japan still shuns an o

With excess capacity driving reefer freight rates, cellular operators are expanding their market hor

The starting bell has sounded: CSX Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. have filed their application for

Bare-knuckles politics under the Capitol Dome virtually assures that William Clyburn - nephew of Rep

VENTURA, Calif. - As national forests go, the Los Padres seems an anomaly to those who visit it for

Californians are in crisis mode. Is the cause drive-by shootings, tornadoes or the mother of all qua

The Maritime Administration's decision to reject Lykes Bros. Steamship Co.'s bankruptcy restructurin

Even as leaders of the leftist-nationalist Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) order champagne to t

In choosing William Hague as their new leader, Conservative members of Parliament largely ignored bo

I say we're a blessed people in a blessedly prosperous nation in a peaceful world where the tyrants

Well-meaning Americans favor rescinding China's trade privileges. They believe that punitive economi

The annual spring rite of renewing China's most-favored-nation trading status is coming to an end. A

If you could inject $10 billion or more into the U.S. economy, supporting tens, even hundreds, of th

U.S. maritime authorities say they are aware of the many temptations that might lure the China Ocean

On July 1, a rare historic event will take place - the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China.

In a 1966 adventure film, ''Our Man Flint,'' America's answer to James Bond takes on a gang of well-

Despite all the talk of downsizing and ''entrepreneurial government'' buzzing around city halls and

Russian President Boris Yeltsin had good news to announce at last weekend's Group of 7 summit: He is

GINGRICH VIEWS MISSTATEDIN NAFTA PARITY ARTICLEYour coverage of Speaker Newt Gingrich's posi

Trade protectionism has many guises, and one of the most popular is consumer protection.Take

Bolstered by the recent Canadian election, Ottawa is likely to take a harder line on a number of cul

A comprehensive survey of Hong Kong's attitude toward Chinese rule in just two weeks reveals a phleg

Do small, state-inspected meat processors deserve the same rights to access markets as their federal

Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski, defying his own former communist allies, has signed a law re

As a pediatrician, I've never had a parent complain that the air was too clean for their child to br

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Seldom has that old saw been more applicable than to the current de

It's almost the best of all possible worlds. The nation's first-quarter economic growth is close to

What is most striking about the debate now under way on tax cut legislation is that the interests of

The White House and congressional leaders are trying again to extend the benefits of the North Ameri

This week, Rep. Nick Smith, R-Mich., in an attempt to appease a small but vocal group of foreign shi

The more things change, the more they stay the same. The United States has vowed to keep this wisdom

There's one respect, perhaps the only one, in which Russia's President Boris Yeltsin will outweigh h

Russia's youthful First Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov may have shot himself in the foot when,