Commentary

Canada got its long-coveted seat on the U.N. Security Council recently, joining the Bigs after more

Eastern Europe is in a bittersweet mood as it prepares to celebrate the 10th anniversary next year o

Employers in a skill-short economy can be so hard-pressed to fill openings that they rush to hire, t

Politics is never pretty, but just before elections it is undeniably at its worst, with the last two

Customs is sitting on a powder keg. The U.S. agency charged with guarding the nation's borders again

On any given day, we pick up the newspaper and shake our heads.It may be a new get-up of Den

Gerhard Schroeder's ascension to the German chancellorship later this month will mark a major turnin

Be you a businessman, a statesmen or a queen, you will rise to legendary stature the day a small, ba

Chances are you've seen Norman Dacey's book, ''How to Avoid Probate!,'' which for years has helped A

Reviewing the Southeast Asian crisis a year or so later, there is little doubt that it has been deva

An Alabama local of the United Steelworkers of America recently demanded that Gov. Fob James close t

Seaports are every bit as much a part of this country's international trade infrastructure as its ne

As a story on Page 1 notes, President Clinton just signed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998 into

Stock market confidence has been badly shaken by a series of political and economic upheavals now be

The age of electronics has greatly affected the maritime industry. Improvements in electronic naviga

Kofi Annan, secretary general of the United Nations, recently issued some ''astonishing facts'' abou

The United States finds itself behind the eight-ball in Northeast Asia as President Bill Clinton pre

Anyway you count it, Washington is entering a period of budget surpluses.This year, for the

Since Russia defaulted on its debt two months ago Saturday, the U.S. economy has remained fundamenta

''Real, inflation-adjusted earnings . . . were 3.1 percent lower last year than in 1989 for workers

Women the world over share a surprising unity of opinion about their most important life challenges

Its back against the wall, Japan at last stands ready to adopt a plan to rescue its floundering bank

Contrary to popular opinion in America, the repression at Tiananmen Square was not the death knell t

Well, I have to admit that I had long thought this millennium-bug thing was a bit overblown, but now

The drayage, or local trucking, company, is a critical link in the intermodal service chain. When co

Russian beggars work on the principle that the more abject your plea, the bigger your reward. It's a

The South Korean economy is caught in a vicious downward spiral of declining spending and collapsing

The trend toward small and home offices is growing into a significant market and Pitney Bowes has de

More debate on anti-dumping laws has been set off by the U.S. steel industry's recent announcement t

The European Union's path to a single market has always been bumpy, and nowhere more so than in pull

Back in the 1980s, labor relations at Northwest Airlines Corp. were so shabby that observers took to

Now that Fernando Henrique Cardoso has won re-election for a second term as president of Brazil, eve

The latest political fight in domestic space politics is about a trivial issue: failure of the bankr

''It is the kind of problem that could erupt, and the world, having paid no attention, suddenly says

If you think American policy-making tends to be adversarial, over-lawyered and dominated by vocifero

Economic analysis in the past two years has consistently underestimated the speed and depth of the g

Various farm and commodity organizations claim that fair-trade farm groups are actually against trad

Trade and transportation today are sophisticated, modern activities with equipment to match. Mega-sh

In our modern era, science has been enlisted in an effort to explain everything.Recently, at

A significant anniversary went almost unnoticed earlier this month.On Oct. 4, 1958, the Brit