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est Coast longshoremen and waterfront employrs gavethe nation's international trade and transportati

The crash of Swissair Flight 111 this fall should remind us how fragile and uncertain the law is tha

Michel Camdessus, managing director of the International Monetary Fund is like a lot of President Cl

How does a $397 billion drop in the economy sound? How about paying an additional 50 cents for a gal

The reasons the U.S. Supreme Court elects to hear some cases are apparent: Issues of national import

Perhaps I'm alone in having fond associations with elevator entrapments.Just how alone becam

Time magazine's inclusion of a gangland hood in its list of ''the 20 remarkable builders and titans

I promised myself I would never do it. But then when I went to the mall the day after Thanksgiving a

Conspicuously absent from the Commerce Department's new rules on the anti-subsidy duty law is langua

Chile's foreign minister is in London trying to persuade the British to release Gen. Augusto Pinoche

George Santayana once observed that ''fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have f

What do you want people to say about you when you're gone?''That bum owed me 50 bucks.'' Or,

Corporate reorganizations are beneficial to a nation's economy when they result in improved efficien

In the Taipei mayoral election that will take place Saturday between the incumbent, Chen Shui-bian,

Tony Blair made a noteworthy speech last week in what was an unusual location for a British leader:

This column was written from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam as I completed my tour of our compan

The Taiwanese financial sector is showing increasing signs of strain that mirror the deflationary co

A visit to the newly restored main reading room of the New York Public Library's Center for the Huma

Since the advent of the Asian economic crisis, we have been at pains to remind investors that, when

Isn't it ironic? We now have three of the major instigators of the Department of Justice's suit agai

While many factors underlie the perennial resiliency of the U.S. economy, one of the driving forces

It is given to few people to invent their own language, but Diego Marani, an Italian translator in B

The European Union's grand strategy to create a rail-based freight system is in tatters.The

Small, furry, interactive toys aren't the only hot-selling dolls this Christmas season. A leather-cl

Gen. Augusto Pinochet has returned to haunt Europe's ''new left'' leaders.The leading player

When Prime Minister Zhu Rongji toured eastern China earlier this year to inspect the provincial grai

In hearings held during the closing days of the last Congress, the Senate Commerce Committee signale

For two weeks in November, streams of visitors passed through House members' offices, but they weren

As logistics reporter for the Journal of Commerce, I'm often asked by people at parties what exactly

Congress has constitutional authority to regulate the domestic and external value of money. In the 1

British retailers are suffering from a shortage of fat men this Christmas season, Reuters reports. S

People accustomed to cool, crisp sheets don't admit they're sleeping on straw.Therein is the

Although the federal government's capacity for capricious behavior sometimes seems boundless, it is

It was all they had left. They were out of yellow, lined pads, so there wasn't a choice. I had to bu

Rex Harrison asked in ''My Fair Lady'': ''Why can't a woman be more like a man?'' They can, and need

With the election returns draining ideological venom from Capitol Hill, attention should be given to

The Chinese word for crisis is made up of two characters: danger and opportunity. We know all too we

Congress should resist the temptation to grant any more mass amnesties to illegal immigrants. Amnest

Remember grandma's beef stew, where she'd toss in a little of this and a lot of that and would, some

Just before the elections, American farmers got a present of about $6 billion in cash from the feder