Commentary

Speculation is percolating in Latin trade channels about President Clinton's upcoming trip to Santia

The International Monetary Fund is under siege. Strident U.S. opponents reject an American role in t

Italian police say they have hard evidence that the Sicilian Mafia is involved in the smuggling of w

It's becoming trickier for marketers to stay out of trouble in an age of political correctness.<

On Monday, a World Trade Organization panel ruled against the United States over a law designed to p

In her best-selling book, ''The March of Folly,'' Barbara Tuchman recounts the periods in history wh

For the second time in 125 years, people in this small fishing village are battling the Atlantic Oce

Anthony Lake, national security adviser to President Clinton during his first term and failed nomine

First, a word in defense of Russia. When last month's shocking government Cabinet dismissal was flas

In late March, the governing body of the International Labor Organization elected Chilean Juan Somav

If you read English, then please pay your telephone bill. If you speak Spanish, pay up or else, says

The proposed merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group is a giant, $166 billion in-your-face challenge

A major force behind our robust stock market and stepped-up economic growth is a rare combination of

Call the human resource manager of almost any U.S. company and ask if it has high-tech job openings

Trade and economics officials from the world's 29 richest countries meet in Paris later this month t

A new era has dawned in the Americas. The aspirations that the nations of the hemisphere pursue coin

The financial contagion that swept through Asia eight months ago may be over. But the balance of ris

High-tech jobs were supposed to be the salvation of the American middle class. For years, we have

The latest trade policy wars in Washington are being fought on terrain unfamiliar to most businesses

Last week's news that the distinguished automaker Rolls-Royce Motors will be acquired by BMW - or, h

Angry striking towboat pilots pulled barges off to the sides of U.S. inland waterways Saturday like

Computer czar Bill Gates and a handful of other billionaires like him are messing up America's econo

It has never been easier to gain access to government information. On the Internet, Americans now ca

Once subsidies are given they are almost impossible to take away, as the European Union is finding y

International tests show American students testing near the bottom of the academic heap in math and

Slightly more than a month ago, Korea inaugurated its new president, Kim Dae-jung. While Korea's eco

It is the capital's most strategic thoroughfare: a natural point of convergence, a dividing line bet

The 21st century freight market will place new demands on trans-Pacific shipping lines and their cus

ABCS OF MARITIMEACADEMY CURRICULUMAn article in the March 12 edition of your newspaper (''Ac

The Clinton administration was stunned when Nelson Mandela, sub-Saharan Africa's foremost leader,

Discussions between China and the European Union in the shadow of London's Asia-Europe summit last w

Consumers for the first time in three generations, may be facing lower prices for a range of goods a

The European Union is trying to stake out the moral high ground in global commerce by calling for a

The secret of ice's viselike grip on aircraft wings, automobile windshields and other surfaces final

The Surface Transportation Board was created in 1995 largely because Congress believed competitive m

How will Asia's financial crisis affect the world economy? The conventional wisdom is that nations o

Blame the Asian crisis or foreigners misreading the landscape or even Japan's use of a loaded term.

Acting Russian Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko, 35, talks, thinks and dresses like the earnest engin

Recommendations by an OECD study group this week for minimum corporate governance standards are welc

During a typically spirited flight on Southwest Airlines recently, I started to wonder about other n