Commentary

The case before the U.S. Supreme Court on the right of Massachusetts and several California localiti

Things are heating up once again on the Atlantic, and the recent vessel-sharing agreements penned by

BUFFALO NEWS:It sounds like the plot for one of those mid-season TV shows: Congress passes l

Think you face transportation challenges? They used to be worse - a lot worse than even industry gra

ompanies in the nation's transportation industry, long accustomed to tooth-and-nail battles for busi

Bill Armbruster's article on the new WIN network (''New network provides service in 45 countries,''

Just one year ago, the steel import crisis was the talk of Washington.The House of Represent

For the next five years, U.S. industries will require 80,000 new truck drivers every year. Canada wi

boisterous rally by thousands of union members Wednesday in Washington officially opened the curtain

Two federal maritime commissioners, Chairman Hal Creel and Commissioner Antony Merck, have spoken ou

Almost every day there is some announcement about the establishment of a new business-to-business ex

Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has long declared itself a defender of worke

isely, the Senate has rejected the temptation to dabble in the oil-price issue by temporarily cuttin

he strong yen has not yet hurt Japanese exporters very much, judging by the latest trade numbers. A

Mwangi Githendu might not know much about politics, but he insists: ''I know when I'm being cheated.

China's authoritarian government regularly and systematically ignores universally recognized rights.

Readers are wonderful. They think and they communicate. This week, I'm going to share the reactions

t's a day for two transportation firsts - and for reflection.On this date in 1911, Pierre Pr

The birth of Windows 2000 has generated a new wave of profit-motivated efforts by computer-book publ

I have followed with interest your concern over the low productivity of American seaports. You have

he congressional oversight hearing last week on the Clinton administration's budget request for a ne

It's hard to disagree with Alan Greenspan because he's right on so many things, but pouring thousand

It's the kind of story that simultaneously feeds outsiders' prejudices about France's failure to com

I've had enough with all this stuff about the New Economy, the ''weightless economy,'' ''legacy indu

olitics may be a lot of things in the United States, but boring is not usually one of them. In Japan

The second-largest economy in the world has been stagnating for almost a decade now, which calls for

U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker recently testified before a Senate committee highlighting d

ashington has just lost a major anti-dumping case at the World Trade Organization, as well it should

So the 1999 financial results have had their airing. The whole container-shipping industry has exper

The Clinton administration's Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee has just set forth its export ag

When John Guest became chief information officer in 1996 at Paradyne Networks in Largo, Fla., out we

The black-widow spider is notorious for killing its mate. Sadly, there is a black-widow spider quali

Confederate and Union soldiers mingled in Marion, Ark., one afternoon several days ago beside an Ark

he U.S. Export-Import Bank last week approved a $490 million package of loan guarantees for the Russ

young doctor has filed a $10 million suit in New York against the Nike running-shoe company. Accordi

It seems hardly a day can go by without a news item on China's campaign for World Trade Organization

It is high time for U.S. policy makers to begin to think about fashioning workable, national policy

There is a message for the West Coast in the recent string of news stories concerning the all-water

movie star, President Clinton and a television network teamed up under the flag of environmentalism

In an article on March 22 (''South Korea to take case to WTO after meetings fail to end EU feud,'' P