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argo shippers anxiously turned their eyes west this week to San Francisco, where negotiators for wa

It is tempting to see the huge vote for Labor Party leader Ehud Barak in the Israeli general electio

HIGH-DENSITY STACKINGIS A MATTER OF SURVIVALI was most interested to read the March 5 articl

More evidence that women will gain an increasing number of leadership positions in the American work

alk about setting your sights high: Richard Branson, who's boldly (and successfully) gone into busi

For a guy with a listed number and the same house and same office for years - who, against all the a

With champagne and balloons in blue and gold - the official European colors - top government leaders

To the surprise of many, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation to impose qu

As world events conspire to keep U.S. naval forces busier than ever - from the Persian Gulf to the A

The Great Port Chase of 1998 and 1999 is over. Maersk and Sea-Land have selected the Port of New Yor

The peace process, tensions between secular and religious people, the personal character of the cand

Add the sleepy Portuguese enclave of Macau to the list of places in Asia where North Korea is causin

In setting aside new air-quality standards issued by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1997, a

SUCCESSFUL CORPORATIONSVIEW THEIR ROLE BROADLYWhat can be more practical than teaching busin

ncreasing numbers of Americans are using their income-tax returns to send an unmistakable message

he Senate has approved S.900, the Financial Services Modernization Act. Last year, the House approve

ilicon Valley has Germany in an ever-tighter grip - or at least the German language, according to t

Although scientific evidence keeps accumulating that human activity is slowly heating the planet, a

The Asian ''tigers'' seem to be on the way back. After suffering devastating economic and financial

At Earth's end, beyond the mountains in the Land of the Thunder Dragon, one of the world's smallest

In June, the Federal Communications Commission will stop accepting comments on a proposal to allow t

Picture this: A colleague tosses you a floppy disk containing six months of research on a project th

Finance, as we know, has become an ultra high-technology business.Gone are the days when peo

ritain is getting anxious to send foot soldiers into Serbia. Its foreign minister is working to drum

The Cold War space race between the United States and Russia is over, but a new race is under way -

While Western Europe is riveted by the humanitarian, military and political disaster that is the Bal

A positive potential solution to the Kosovo problem is getting too little attention. Separation won'

Along with undeniable benefits, technology also brings unavoidable changes. One area of life it stro

Piloting a 200-foot-long barge tugging 40,000 tons of cargo along the Ohio River can be a daunting t

ust how low are wages in China? So low that one mainland Chinese says he wants extra time in jail i

he euro appears to have pulled out of its nosedive on the foreign exchange markets, but a renewed se

Organ transplantation is a medical triumph that's woefully tangled up in cultural and political rest

For some people, it's shoes; for others, computer gadgets; for others still, it's fancy cooking gear

In a recent speech in Chicago, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan dwelled heavily on fundamenta

A series of corruption allegations in Lebanon has focused attention on an important issue for busine

Not long ago, at a luncheon meeting of North American businessmen in Moscow, the question was asked:

Rocks pelting the American embassy in Beijing. Headlines blaring allegations of Chinese nuclear espi

The industry's shipments last year were the second highest in more than 20 years; production was dow

roposed House legislation that substantially improves trucking productivity and safety is a watershe

quick look at several statistics sums up the economic story of the 1990s. U.S. gross domestic pr