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The chastened leaders of President Jacques Chirac's battered parliamentary majority are pulling out

A major problem facing the global economy - with its increasingly open markets and intense competiti

Give Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., credit for tenacity.Several years ago, he tried to convince t

The United States is making a major move into Africa, calling for an annual meeting with ''reformist

Next week, President Clinton will formally notify Congress he intends to renew for another year Chin

Researchers have been using embryonic cells to clone sheep, cows and other mammals for more than a d

Former CIA Director John Deutch, reportedly President Clinton's likely nominee as his next science a

There is a progression in the minds of men. First, the unthinkable becomes thinkable. Then, it becom

Much champagne will be spilled this week toasting the Marshall Plan - the $300 billion U.S. effort (

SHIPPING INDUSTRY NEEDSA GOOD PR CAMPAIGNDon Becker's notebook in the April 16 issue of the

The issue of American global leadership usually arises in discussions of war, finance or trade. But

In all of nine paragraphs 50 years ago, then-U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlined an

The club of developed countries - the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development - last y

The maritime industry is facing a major overhaul which will transform its shape and structure over t

When Rupert Murdoch announced his plans for a new direct broadcast satellite service, cable subscrib

The European Trade Union Federation estimates the phasing out of the global textile trade restrictio

It's Boeing vs. Europe, and you shouldn't bet on Europe.Boeing Co., which hopes to buy ailin

President Clinton really will feel like the most powerful man on earth today. He will pull off the b

To tell America about a major overhaul of its motel chain, Holiday Inn featured a stunning blond tra

What a sight it must have made, the ''torches of liberty contingent'' at the Easter Parade down New

Before the Heaven's Gate suicides gripped our attention, the media focused on another variety of hig

IGNORE ANTI-NAFTA RHETORIC:US AUTO INDUSTRY IS FINERhetoric, rhetoric, and rhetoric again. T

It is unlikely that Rupert Murdoch, the Australian-born media mogul, has ever sat through nine innin

French voters are going to the polls Sunday, in all likelihood to hand the center-right coalition a

At this time, when words mean whatever you want them to mean, when Orwellian logic intrudes on every

As was amply demonstrated during a recent commercial policy mission through the countries of the Ara

After a long search, the Clinton administration has discovered a cabal of global economic enemies. T

U.S. national security is under such an ''unusual and extraordinary threat'' that President Clinton

It's a closely guarded secret, but your supermarket is helping to preserve wild lands all over the w

An extraordinary amount of attention has been paid in recent years to the idea of ''social capital.'

Psst. . .Want to know a deep, dark Internal Revenue Service secret? The agency can and will forgive

The $60 billion-a-year U.S. consumer electronics market has a hidden ''travel cost'' that's squeezin

John McCain deals with adversity better than most. The five-and-a-half years he spent in North Vietn

Tempus fugit - time flies - has never been truer than in Canada's odd national election campaign, wh

India has been pleading poverty for decades, claiming it cannot afford to open its markets to import

Zaire disappeared over the weekend. It was discarded into history along with Mobutu Sese Seko, the d

CONSPIRACY ISN'T BEHINDTHE DEMISE OF US FLEETContrary to Lawrence A. Howard (''Selling Ameri

The Napoleonic wars provided an epic backdrop for Leo Tolstoy's ''War and Peace.'' The French Revolu

With the aging of the American work force, greater numbers of older job candidates will be competing

Uncle Sam is designing your next refrigerator, whether you like it or not.The humble refrige