Commentary

Anyone doing business overseas should be familiar with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Created in

The latest American craze sweeping Europe isn't a computer game, a new fast food or a fashion fad. I

Now that the Surface Transportation Board has approved the union of Canadian National Railway and Il

U.S. multinationals and their overseas affiliates have definitely experienced better times.L

t's easy to view the budget agreement reached by Eu ropean Union leaders last Friday as a grand cop-

''It used to be when American policy makers thought of Africa at all, they would ask, what can we do

I am sitting in a sound chamber, listening to music. What's playing is Herb Alpert, then Whitney Hou

If you don't have anything nice to say about a place, call.If you want to learn something ab

I'm already missing those halcyon days when all Congress cared about was what was going on in the Ov

t was good to see the legislative rebirth last week of Sen. Richard Lugar's common-sense approach to

The emergence in Japan of e-commerce - buying and selling over the Internet - represents a historic

Antonio Aguilar is considered the prototypical citrus worker - young, lithe, agile and capable of ha

he modern world isn't the only thing that's shrinking. Wallenius Lines and Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA, tw

Recent Kurdish separatist bombings in Istanbul and Ankara are part of a trend that could have a more

''Common tariffs and common pricing are going to be a thing of the past very shortly. The future is

Even if the banana dispute between the United States and the European Union is quickly settled it ha

The developed world is moving inexorably toward the internationalization of airlines. The United Sta

After the downsizing, rightsizing, takeovers and layoffs of the 1980s and 1990s, companies looking t

The independent counsel statute, which brought us Judge Lawrence Walsh to persecute Reagan administr

Redlining - the deliberate denial of insurance to a specific area or persons for reasons other than

Records, it seems, just aren't what they used to be.Arbin Timilsina, a Nepalese schoolboy, a

Citing the worsening crisis in Kosovo, Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov abruptly canceled his

William Tecumseh Sherman once wrote his wife: ''Vox populi, vox humbug.''A Gallup poll condu

The brochure for the International Intermodal Expo recently crossed my desk. The presentation was st

''Repeat after me . . . ''Les Brown pauses before continuing:''Anything worth doing is worth

A recent newspaper article reported on the railroad industry's environmental practices and the conta

he most dramatic evidence yet of the new era being ushered in by the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of

It was really a quaint time. Back in those near-forgotten, primitive days before there was a compute

he authorization of NATO air strikes against Serbia inspires conflicting emotions.Prominent

We all know the Ocean Shipping Reform Act was not a total deregulation of the ocean transportation s

Central-bank publications are hardly best sellers. However, the first issue of the European Central

Perhaps no one is more pleased to see the Dow Jones average dancing around the 10,000-point barrier

The Asian financial crisis, which began innocently in July 1997 with the devaluation of the Thai bah

The recent modest recovery in the price of crude petroleum has touched off worries on the part of so

ime and again, the Clinton administration has argued that no changes are needed to safeguard sen

t's official: James P. Hoffa was sworn into office this week as president of the Teamsters.

Those who are regular readers of my diatribes know that if I'm told I can get something for nothing,

A few years ago, I was invited to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to speak about As

It's just as well Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov will appear for his meetings in Washington

No doubt there are nuts and demons out there planning evil things.But it should be noted tha