Commentary

The Japanese construction industry may require ISO 9000 registration as a condition to do business i

P&O Containers and Nedlloyd Lines need to do something about the Pacific.The two companies p

The reaction of Americans to immigration has always been like a pendulum, kept in motion by a combin

When ''The Nanny,'' a popular American television show, signed off for the summer season, viewers we

Last week's meeting here of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank seemed remarkable for

European governments say America's anti-Cuba trade and investment policy interferes with their ties

AGENTS ARE LIABLEFOR PORTS' BUSINESS RISKSI am writing you to respond to the letter by W.M.

Two decades ago, Congress rejected proposals for a constitutional amendment to guarantee Americans t

For decades, regulatory reform has been seen as a domestic remedy to heavy-handed - and usually disr

A modest establishment called the Beauty Hut sits at 20 East 125th Street in Manhattan, a made-over

The U.S. media treated the 17th National Assembly of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), do

MAKE FISH FARMINGENVIRONMENTALLY SOUNDDennis Avery's Op-Ed, ''Farming: a fish story'' (Sept.

Kudos to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, better known as the Nobel committee, for spotlightin

The scene has become all too familiar. A company announces plans to restructure and lays off hundred

The first presidential ''debate'' between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole was notable for what the candida

As someone who was deeply involved in the reauthorization process for the U.S. Export-Import Bank al

Bob Dole had a chance Sunday night to zero-in on Bill Clinton's main weakness - the so-called charac

The United States is still entangled in Haiti.Forty American soldiers arrived in Port-au-Pri

New Europe is winning the war against Old Europe.Stock markets across Europe are scaling new

Alexander Lebed, the ambitious national security adviser to Russia's President Boris Yeltsin, is bec

Judges are very much in the news these days. Politicians and the public increasingly criticize indiv

'UNSATISFYING MANNER'OF REPORTING ON SPEECHESI am writing to take exception to your coverage

What was once a top-secret Israeli military technology now allows broadcasters to create stadium and

''It is easier to die than to live in Russia!''This rather foreboding headline to an article

The prevailing wisdom in Washington says you can't cut taxes and balance the budget at the same time

President Clinton is not the only born-again political centrist. His British soon-to-be counterpart,

The European Union has opened a nasty can of worms by challenging Washington's Cuba policy in the Wo

Mexico is in trouble.Two rebel forces are fighting the government, and the government, in tu

FEDEX ACTS LIKEROBBER BARONSIt comes as no surprise that you would blindly editorialize in f

Renato Ruggiero, the World Trade Organization's director-general, last week proposed that industrial

At this stage of a presidential campaign, we always have a torrent of new ideas from the candidates.

Some call them ''sweeteners.'' Others prefer ''inducements.'' In a few countries they're even known

Nicaragua's Sandinistas could conceivably return to power later this month. Honduras, Guatemala and

The U.S. Council for International Business (USCIB) believes that modernization of customs practices

''It wasn't in the speech when I left on Tuesday night,'' said Mark Helprin, who wrote most of Bob D

In this presidential election year, it has become fashionable to advocate faster economic growth as

NEW USES FORTHE MARSHALL PLANIn his Sept. 20th opinion article, ''Mothballing Cold War Think

Don't believe everything you read about the demise of the written word. Despite the proliferation of

The first human to light a fire was surely glad to have it. But equally welcome was the implied less

Shortly after Halloween, the United States will hold a World Series and a presidential election, but