Commentary

Under President Clinton's recently announced $2 billion technology plan, the government will siphon

Your editorial of March 6 (''At stake in NY-NJ,'' Page 6) omits the critical points of the environme

The Department of Transportation's recent report to Congress on the nation's Maritime Transportation

There is a great deal of speculation about what the advent of the Internet and e-commerce means to t

The realization has already set in across Asia that the presidential election campaign in Taiwan is

The recent unanimous vote in the House of Representatives to allow Social Security recipients aged 6

Ireland is still dotted with the ruins of ''famine cottages,'' abandoned since the 1840s, when 1 mil

message making its way quickly around the academic sector of the Internet shows a grasp both of phys

rade blocs and single regional currencies. It's a logical if difficult concept that already has take

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was forced to shut down its World Wide Web site Feb. 16 aft

In the run-up to this week's Surface Transportation Board hearings in Washington on the future struc

Once upon a time, in the land of Adobe, there lived the king of desktop publishing: PageMaker.

ive them an ''A'' for effort - but be sure to use the French pronunciation.French officials

hings may be starting to look up on the Customs computer front. But they're only starting. There's a

In ''Pssst! You want to buy a railroad? Cheap?'' (column, Feb. 16, Page 8), Lawrence Kaufman notes t

The European Union is planning another incursion into the troubled territory of jobs policy.

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's recent thoughts on economic policy can be summarized in th

eople, especially shippers, didn't always like what Ron Gottshall had to tell them. But they couldn'

s the American presidential campaign gathers pace, the virtues of the free-trade system that has ser

There's a globally recognized picture of the English city gent that depicts a man decked out in a bo

Masayoshi Son, whose personal net worth of $60 billion on paper is more than that of Myanmar (former

The victory of reformist candidates in Iran's parliamentary elections marks a further step in the co

t's a scenario that's easy to understand, that's certain to provoke fear, and that's guaranteed to m

In a recent Friday afternoon announcement, the Clinton administration granted temporary import relie

How-to-succeed books counsel ambitious young executives to continually upgrade their skills to compe

Every year our State Department irritates the rest of the world by assessing how well - or how badly

Whoever wins Taiwan's March 18 presidential election, his first policy decision should be to scrap t

ongress is treading a truly fine line in consulting on cyber security with a computer hacker who was

Forward-looking entrepreneurs played an important role in early postwar Japan, launching such long-t

In the movie version of ''The Untouchables,'' Elliot Ness is given advice about facing his adversari

Juanita Swedenburg, a warm woman with a head of curly gray hair, is the last person one would call a

he statistics tell a troubling story.The United States has a deficit in its balance of payme

ever underestimate the power - or the reach - of the market.Economically tight times in the

A staple of any Principles of Macroeconomics class is a review of the economic situation of the 1970

Most of the known world plans to testify at next week's Surface Transportation Board hearing on the

I knew it would happen. I saw it coming many moons ago, but nobody believed me. In fact I received m

The Japanese market holds much promise for U.S. firms as new forms of doing business evolve. Mail-or

The fiasco during the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle in December has scarred both th

here's at least one positive thing about the endurance contest that the American presidential campai

new Department of Transportation report on the maritime industry paints an educational picture of a