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South Korea's embattled president, Kim Young Sam, is facing a full menu of problems, both foreign an

Who will hold the world's grain stocks in 1997? After 60 years of grain markets dominated by huge go

President Clinton's latest plan to reform welfare raises more questions than it answers.Mr.

Only in San Francisco . . .. . . Would the Department of Parking and Traffic issue you a $23

For nearly four decades, the promoters and assorted chroniclers of the St. Lawrence Seaway have like

You may not have read about the most important health story of 1996.It wasn't a breakthrough

If you can't find a good job in this extraordinarily healthy market, you have no one to blame but yo

International phone calls are too expensive. Their prices often bear no relationship to costs and br

The North American Free Trade Agreement is about to get another challenge.The American Coali

It used to be clothes that went in and out of fashion. These days it seems to be continents.

Those who wonder what kind of political system China will develop in the future can get some clues i

The new Congress, which is sworn in this week, will be slightly different from the old one.T

Kiss 'em goodbye.The countdown to a single European currency has started, and that means an

Give House Transportation Committee Chairman Bud Shuster credit: He is not shy about going after wha

China has played the Boeing card successfully in the past and is doing so again.Just days be

TREASURY RULES MAKINGMONEY LAUNDERING COSTLYAccording to the writers of the article ''Clean

The United States is worried about renewed tensions in Cyprus. And for good reason.Last week

Now that Congress is back in session, one of its top priorities should be the ratification of the tr

Latin America took nearly eight years to recover from the banking shock of 1982 and two years to rec

In his recent critique of Wall Street Journal columnist Holman W. Jenkins Jr., Leo Abruzzese scorns

A massive oil spill off the coast of Japan is raising new questions about the safety - or lackthereo

Ron Carey's victory in his bruising battle for re-election as general president of the International

I am a New Yorker and I need bus crash insurance. I am on a nearly fruitless quest to find a health

Temporary workers have the ladders to advancement kicked out from under them, a university sociologi

International piracy of intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, copyrights or trade secre

Getting a paragraph on ''core labor standards'' included in the final declaration of the WorldTrade

For a brief moment on Monday, before the Newt Gingrich drama took center stage, Washington focused o

The first significant study of the North American Free Trade Agreement's effect on American jobs sho

A great debate on the future of the American Social Security system is about to begin, and the snake

The thought occurs to me that when everyone of my parents' generation is dead, fruitcake will go the

President Kim Young-Sam of South Korea blundered by ramming through a controversial labor reform law

By the grace of God, the 1996 election is over. Most American voters can look forward toroughly two

When President Clinton rejected president of the AFL-CIO John Sweeney's choice for Secretary of Labo

HEDGING RISKS INGLOBAL FREIGHT MARKETSWe read your article of Jan. 2 on the changing nature

An old Washington adage is that when presidents confront trouble at home, they turn their attention

On a rock stage deep inside a 700-year-old salt mine near Cracow, Polish cabaret performers ushered

Downsizing is the No. 1 factor inhibiting wage inflation.Once seen mainly as a component of

The Clinton administration took a step in the right direction in allowing the barter trade of 500,00

'Twas the season to be jolly, and for many, it was also the season to find out that the World Wide W

Diverting U.S. intelligence resources to commercial espionage, as the Clinton administration did in