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Now comes the hard part: reconciling Senate and House differences in order to enact what could be th

One of the biggest challenges for a chief executive officer is accommodating the conflicting expecta

Ten years ago today, the Berlin Wall began to fall, and the Iron Curtain that had divided Europe for

America's small railroads have built a remarkable record of success in recent years. However, today

In response to your article and editorial on the World Trade Organization's expected new round of ne

Imagine a big international conclave of engineering wizards that spends three years upgrading the ho

Yes, George W. Bush, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, should have a soli

In his opinion column of Oct. 26, Rip Watson surveyed factors influencing rail service (''When will

It's that time of the year again. Britain has switched its clocks back one hour, it's dark early, an

Who says the best things in life can't be measured?A pair of economists have set out to tote

When Anatoly Chubais held his breakfast with the International Monetary Fund one morning last week,

A notion that surfaced at a hearing on Capitol Hill last week offers a rational approach to resolvin

Tonight is the Admiral of the Ocean Sea award dinner, the annual black-tie gathering of the U.S.-fla

Nearly all the recommendations of Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater's recent report on the U.S.

Large global corporations are commonly assumed to be at the forefront of using the Internet, and the

The majority of business economists polled recently believe that the Federal Reserve's Open Market C

The lights are burning late these autumn evenings in the offices of the Japan External Trade Organiz

The technology improves, the politics change and the business ebbs and flows, but one thing remains

Sen. William Roth, R-Del., was only partly right when he said that the Senate's passage of African a

You gotta love RealNetworks' response when news surfaced this week that its Internet music software

Seventeen U.S. Merchant Marine Academy midshipmen aboard the training vessel Kings Pointer got an un

The United States' new quasi-ambassador in Hong Kong lost no time in setting out the beneficial ties

Last week The Journal of Commerce Conferences unit took its show on the road to Chicago.The

The Sierra Club recently issued another volley in its ongoing war against sprawl: a report grading e

No matter how much Russia's economy shrinks and its international creditworthiness dwindles, the Kre

Argentina is an especially interesting case study in political democracy. Many of its political lead

This summer was the worst on record for airline flight delays throughout the United States. Things w

THE WASHINGTON POST:The effort by Microsoft to get the proposed budget of the Justice Depart

The Bank of England is planning to double Britain's money supply. If this sounds like bad news for a

Raymond Tyson is in the thick of battle. Beads of sweat form on his forehead as he lurches to swat a

One day you may open your telephone bill and discover a surcharge for sending e-mail. Or you may get

While Congress gleefully concentrates on partisan thrust and parry, a technical trade issue it's ign

Oenophiles beware: Not everything you see in Robert Joseph's ''Good Wine Guide'' is drinkable.

The European Union's bid for a leadership role in a new round of world-trade talks risks being serio

Some critics of the Norfolk Southern Corp.-CSX Transportation Inc. joint purchase of Conrail Inc. ha

With the number of new technologies, pharmaceuticals and forms of artistic expression increasing exp

Iran is slightly more than three months away from the most crucial election since the Islamic revolu

Well before the start of the new round of world trade negotiations later this month, battle lines ar

It sounds so easy.The United States is ''getting fleeced in every way'' in world trade thank

You published an opinion article by Holger Jensen on Oct. 26 headlined ''A subtle tightening of the