Commentary

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

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

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

Assessments of the North American Free Trade Agreement have focused on the relationship between trad

The recent announcement of Neptune Orient Lines' agreement to acquire American President Lines for $

Relations between Japan and Russia are not back to normal, but there are signs the two are willing t

CHINA IS HAVING ITS WAYWITH US GOVERNMENTThe May 14 editorial, ''Bashing Beijing'' (Page 6A)

China's bid to join the World Trade Organization is stalled, hurt by U.S. politics. But there is a p

Turkey is well on its way to creating another California, at least agriculturally. It is also creati

President Clinton's recent trip to Latin America makes this a perfect time to think about the North

Less than three weeks after sweeping to power, Tony Blair has already broken an election pledge.

Competition brings benefits all around. It is the driving force behind improvement and progress. But

In their renewed campaign to abolish the Department of Energy, congressional Republicans have the ri

Most critics of NATO's enlargement initially based their case on Russia's reaction. Moscow would r

As expected, President Clinton announced Monday that he will renew China's ''most favored nation'' t

President Clinton flies to Europe over the Memorial Day weekend to celebrate the 50th anniversary of

Last week's meeting of the trade minister from the countries of the Western Hemisphere in Belo Horiz

Brazil refuses to negotiate a hemispheric free-trade agreement with the United States until Presiden

Low-fare airlines have been a blessing for travelers and a curse for the large carriers that compete

Some 85 percent of Americans claim that they are, at the very least, satisfied with the cars they dr

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain insists he's not trying to grab trade jurisdiction fr

Imagine that you own a sports equipment store.Your state sues you, arguing that you sell a d

It's not even mid-May yet and already Washington seems to be coming down with a serious case of late

Despite years of disinflation here and around the globe, inflation worrywarts are urging the Federal

The future competitiveness of U.S. agriculture may well be decided in a matter of days.At st

Next week, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman will announce how much U.S. farmland will be taken out

This is payback time for the Bulgarian police.On the roads leading from central Sofia to the

President Clinton, who has exhorted Americans to ''compete and not retreat'' on free trade, seems he

How would you feel if your company used your 401(k) contributions to directly pay the retirement ben

The North Korean famine continues to worsen, and the time for organized action is now.The Ko

During the 2 1/2 years since the Miami Summit of the Americas, the hemispheric trade liberalization

For over a decade, business leaders have been working to improve public education. We have convened

Oil tankers and their operation can be dangerous. But they are also critical in the distribution of

French President Jacques Chirac is arriving in Beijing today to mend diplomatic fences over long-for

UAW'S CLAIM OF JOB LOSSDUE TO NAFTA CONTRADICTEDUnited Automobile Workers' Stephen Yokich cl