Commentary

They are great gardens of the sea, gorgeous and rich with life. Algal blooms can be green or brown o

International maritime experts are giving much-needed scrutiny to the sorry safety record of bulk ca

The disintegration of the Soviet Union has created a unique opportunity for the countries of the Cau

President Clinton has decided to extend China's normal trading status for another year. It is the ri

Over the next two years, Congress will be reauthorizing the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The decision

Breakfasts will never be the same at Kinshasa's Intercontinental Hotel. First the rebels' arrival he

Who would think that in today's booming economy, bankruptcies would be up in America? But it's true.

Now comes the hard part of filling in the details of the overhyped budget agreement.Once aga

The Clinton White House never met an intrusive regulation it didn't like. Case in point: its continu

Talk about tease! The Clinton administration last week said it would help more than 30 of the world'

For more than 40 years, Europe's computer industry has tried and largely failed to build up national

A Christian lobbying group has taken ''anything goes'' lobbying to extremes, portraying the Chinese

In public, Hong Kong's business community smiles and shrugs its shoulders about what will happen whe

Let's be honest: Despite great potential, not that many people are buying over the Internet. Most co

The French Socialist Party, which gained power in Sunday's elections, has almost died four times.

Last month, a memorial to President Franklin Roosevelt was unveiled in Washington. One of FDR's stro

The French Communists will get a chance to show if they can make the trains run on time in Prime Min

Earlier this year I chaired the first hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Manufacturing and Compet

U.S. politicians, to their credit, have finally tried to reverse the harm welfare has done to poor p

GUILFORD CAN BEATAMTRAK IN RUNNING TRAINSIn response to Frank Wilner's opinion article (''Gu

As the baby boomer generation ages, the last barriers to hiring older workers are vanishing. We are

Big mergers mean big money. Yet, among companies that actually manage money - banks, securities firm

The Transatlantic Business Dialogue, a U.S.-European commercial forum, has borne its first fruit: an

Tomorrow the U.S. International Trade Commission gives the Clinton administration its assessment of

The German government beat a hasty retreat from its plan to fudge the nation's finances by revaluing

Trying to stem the large trade deficit with China by restricting imports would only lead to higher p

The Commerce Department announced last week that the combined budgets of federal, state and local go

President Clinton recently asked the U.S. business community to support NATO expansion and, last wee

Now that the Senate and the House have passed the 1998 budget resolution, Congress and the president

If the trial lawyers can contain their greed, if the anti-tobacco extremists can be held in check an

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien gambled, as did his French counterpart, in calling a general e

Several days ago, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer sent a letter to President Cli

In the more than 60 years that has elapsed since Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Act, a mounting

Alan Hale, co-discoverer of the Hale-Bopp comet, has been telling interviewers that students should

The Trans-Atlantic Conference Agreement is trying again. TACA, the 16-member group that controls shi

June 1 marked the start of the 1997 hurricane season, and meteorologists are predicting a very activ

President Clinton and European leaders have celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan and

Not until eight days before Harvard's commencement exercises did Secretary of State George C. Marsha

When it comes to global foreign direct investment flows, the developed nations set the pace. Indeed,

After he arrived in conquered Berlin to attend the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, President Harry