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

I write today to offer a clarification to your article titled ''APL's move could drive rates down in

Ask any trade pundit in Washington what the outlook for trade legislation on Capitol Hill is next ye

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

As you tuck into your first slice of turkey this Thanksgiving, spare a thought for the supermarket w

I've logged my sixth ''dogsbody.''The writer was Lord Jeffrey Archer, who said in a Viewpoin

Since the dollar's ascent in mid-1995 and last year's massive currency devaluations in Asia, investo

The steel industries of the United States and Europe are reaching once again for their favorite comp

Nobody disputes the fact that Albania is Europe's poorest country. The race to replace Marx with Mam

The Mexican peso crisis of 1994-95 and the more recent currency crises in Asia, Russia and Brazil ha

Beneath the office blocks and factories that compose its landscape today, this modern, industrious c

Somehow, the usual tools of economic policy have failed to stimulate the Japanese economy, which has

A man of wisdom and vision, who happens to be my boss, was driving with his wife down Interstate 95

A state decision to terminate a clean-air highway pro gram offers a broader lesson about efforts to

Incoming House Speaker Bob Livingston has announced that the first House bill to be introduced in th

How many electricians does it take to screw in a light bulb? That's the question I asked myself afte

President Clinton hopes that foreign policy will save his presidency from the ignominy of impeachmen

With much of the world gripped by financial contagion, and the U.S. economy showing signs of an immi

This is not a work of fiction, but it could be.A 76-foot motor yacht is newly constructed fo

Opportunity rarely presents itself as it does now for Bill Clinton.Democrats have gained pow

Time is running out for shippers who want to start the ball rolling toward legislative change in the

The top executive of one of the world's leading airlines, which has been awash in red ink for six ye

The pro-trade camp in the United States is in such disarray that it invites comparisons to the Repub

Christopher Lingle's vituperative attack on antitrust lawyers (''Unintended antitrust consequences,'

Developing countries have essentially thrown cold water on proposals that they implement voluntary c

Last Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I - or the Great Wa

It is one of the little-known rules of politics, and not just in Russia, that tall politicians surro

Every once and a while, you will see a newspaper story saying China is making great strides forward

Malcom McLean was celebrating his 85th birthday and couldn't attend the maritime industry's Admi ra

There's plenty of fodder for those who would criticize Vice President Al Gore for his breathtakingly

Ted Prince's Oct. 29 ''Moving Right Along'' column (''Petulant ports,'' Page 7A) advocated the need

With as many as one in four of their inhabitants rendered homeless by Hurricane Mitch, Honduras and

On Nov. 8, a nationalist-leftist coalition hammered together by the Democratic Revolutionary Party (

Instead of expending its energy battling the United States over bananas and its central bankers over

Once the dust settles in the fight for control of the House leadership, members of Congress are goin

Excitement surged as the Dow Jones industrial average topped 9,000 Monday for the first time since m

This column has been filed from Singapore, where I am half-way through a 17-day tour of Southeast As

I've been good! I've kept my opinions to myself, not letting my emotions get the best of me. But eno

The normally mild-mannered governor of the Italian central bank, Antonio Fazio of the Banca d'Italia