Commentary

For Jacques Delors, former president of the European Union Commission, a single EU currency is but a

When Manne Dipico, the new premier of South Africa's Northern Cape province, greeted his newly assig

Railroads have had a big year: Big profits, big mergers and now, perhaps, big strikes. President Cli

While President Clinton was admonishing the world to adhere strictly to the Bosnian arms embargo, he

Why is Nynex spending millions on name-identification ads when it is about to become Bell Atlantic?

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Boris Yeltsin is trying something new in Azerbaijan to help Russia gain a share of Caspian oil riche

President Clinton had petroleum reserves to tap last week to bring gasoline prices down. Too bad for

You're watching ''Seinfeld'' when an ad comes on for a certain diet cola. You watch the ad. When it'

Last week's decision in Geneva to extend the telecommunications trade talks may produce a global dea

Cuddly grandfather. Friendly guy behind the counter. John Sweeney resembles a lot of things, but not

Grain stocks are at record lows. Prices of cereals, especially coarse grain, are at record highs. Th

A historic bargaining process is currently unfolding among private businesses from both sides of the

A recent report by New York's Regional Plan Association and a spate of pessimistic news stories proj

In the early days of the cellular telephone business, competing companies waged war to acquire subsc

Spain stands in the forefront of Europe, but in a category that pleases no Spaniard: In a European U

The argument from business commonly goes like this: ''If it weren't for those (expletive deleted) en

It has been many years coming, but Japanese consumers, it seems, are starting to like foreign cars.

Rep. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat on the House Asian Affairs subcommittee, made a friendly pitch

There's some discouraging news ahead for the Clinton administration, the AFL-CIO and other organized

The action's thick at the mini baccarat table. This is James Bond's game: high rollers, long odds, t

The Senate Finance Committee meets today to consider several important and long overdue trade bills.

Until Nov. 18, Mexico's soaring crime rate was, to me, just another grim social trend. It became a p

When the Uruguay Round trade negotiations were launched in 1986, the United States identified a dram

A new World Bank study confirms what economists have been saying for years: Free trade is good for a

I was relieved to learn recently that the governors are in favor of high academic standards for stud

The national debate about ''good jobs at good pay'' - how many, how much and for whom - has taken an

Since 1986, Haiti has been ravaged by political strife as the country has struggled to overcome deca

All's fair in love, war and, apparently, the Olympics. That's what some savvy marketers feel, and th

Privatizing state-owned companies is a routine occurence everywhere in the world - everywhere, that

Last week, the United States and its trading partners failed to reach an agreement to open the world

When German President Roman Herzog helped open the U.S. exhibit at last month's industrial fair in H

California's consumer advocates, battle weary but wise from the state's recent effort to deregulate

It was the summer I had just turned six, so I can't swear all the details are exactly as I recall th

Business is growing increasingly digital. Sensitive commercial and financial data are moving over th

Are we spending too much on AIDS research and prevention, to the neglect of far more prevalent deadl

Somewhere between his duck-hook drive off the first tee at the Biltmore Golf Course and his stubbed

President Clinton's quest last month for amity and equanimity in Tokyo concluded happily, if predict

Republicans and Democrats apparently can't agree over whether minimum-wage workers deserve some incr

You can't keep a good economy down, it seems. Just when it looked like the slow-growth blues were re