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It's almost 20 years since Italy celebrated the ''sorpasso,'' that proud moment when its national we

Even as momentum apparently builds for a main export pipeline through Georgia linking Azerbaijan's C

Spring in Japan means cherry blossoms, melting snow on Mount Fuji and Shinto, the annual labornegoti

There's a saying in America: beware of ordering too many blank checks at once. The name of your bank

Two Wall Street Journal reporters have produced a spring tonic of a book about the U.S. economy, aft

On the celebration of Earth Day today, acrimonious debate continues to rage over the Kyoto Treaty, w

International trade is hardly free of politics or might-is-right reasoning, although the WorldTrade

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France is within sight of a victory that has eluded it throughout this century - parity with Germany

As the world moves toward a truly global trading system, a frustrating stalemate has emerged in the

Few Americans are as plugged into the telecommunications revolution as the estimated 800,000 soft dr

Economists depend on economic and financial data, plus the assumption that the country's economic st

The Senate has agreed to consider an amendment to the Ocean Shipping Reform Act today giving non-ves

Those who hate the income tax - roughly 99 percent of Americans - cheered when a Senate committee al

The last two years have been problematic for U.S.-Latin relations as Congress voted down fast-track

After three years of tortured debate, a congressional bid to curb regulation of the ocean shipping b

When Gregor Mendel cross-bred pea plants in his monastery's garden 140 years ago, he hardly suspecte

More than a few people were scratching their heads last week af- ter a speech by Treasury Secret

Like pronouncements by the Delphic oracle, President Clinton's call to ''save Social Security first'

The president recently said we have a chance to ''fix the roof while the sun is still shining'' - a

America's private colleges are reportedly increasing their tuition at the lowest rate in decades. Co

As Latin global leaders head home from this weekend's Summit of the Americas, they need to refocus o

The reported death last week of mass murderer Pol Pot represents another milestone in Indochina's tr

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The current financial crisis in Asia first surfaced in Thailand last July. Since then, the virus has

Could it be that Saddam Hussein isn't the only one with something to hide when it comes to illegal w

This weekend's Inter-American summit in Santiago, Chile, attended by President Clinton and 33 Wester

At his 25th high school reunion, one of Grant Aldonas' former classmates invited him to step outside

The World Trade Organization ruling last week striking down U.S. legal protections for endangered se

President Clinton and 33 leaders of neighboring Western Hemisphere nations sit down together in Sant

As old enmities are starting to melt away around the world - U.S. humanitarian trade with Cuba after

We don't recall when we first heard a mayor, governor or other elected official announce they weren'

President Clinton faces a test over his policy toward Iran and should use the opportunity to turn th

A Mexican pundit once complained that most of his country's problems stemmed from being ''too far fr

As the Uruguayan daily El Pais provocatively observed, ''the hemispheric (trade integration) tracks

A new movement is afoot, spreading buzzwords through America's think tanks and city halls. ''Regiona

Cutting though much of the verbiage about the planned merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group, the de

ABANDONMENT REPORTGREATLY EXAGGERATEDWe were surprised to read in your March 11 article ''Ma

Major credit card banks, along with the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives, are t

Trade analysts for some time have expected a higher trade deficit this year given the strong U.S. ec