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Aconference last week that at one time was supposed to generate momentum in Congress for ''fast-trac

Who says there are no second acts in American life? Certainly not the third-generation hopefuls tryi

The federal government, chartered by the U.S. Constitution to ''secure the blessings of liberty to o

The United States and Japan reached a historic aviation agreement last week that promises to send mo

Leaving aside increased income inequality, it is widely acknowledged that the last few years have be

Alexei Ilyushenko, the prisoner the Russian government would rather forget, sits in a three-man cell

One of the great World Trade Organization success stories has been its judicial system, which forces

Boris Yeltsin, the Russian president who thinks Japan and Germany are nuclear powers, predicted Worl

Until recently, America's public managers have too often resigned themselves to the legal entrenchme

Just as analysts thought the Asian crisis was over, the word from Seoul is that the Korean governmen

No one can reliably predict our economic or political future because actual events will depend on wh

British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrives here this week at a time of political peril for his friend

Struck by millennium fever, Sir Leon Brittan, the European Union's top trade official, has a grand v

People who smoke at work are likely to be marked down on job performance because of it, reducing bot

COMPANY REPUTATIONNO LAUGHING MATTER We are writing regarding the article titled ''Happy New

On Tuesday, Brazil announced a record January trade deficit of $717 million, up from $413 million a

In his State of the Union speech late last month, President Clinton said the ''overriding'' environm

China is renewing its efforts to woo its most implacable foe, Taiwan, less than two years after test

Television's Oprah Winfrey didn't invent the game of scaring people about their food anymore than Bi

Like a new car that unexpectedly develops serious faults, the 1997 model of globalization has been r

Customs has a new plan to root out drugs from commercial shipments by helping Latin American enforce

Red lights flashing and sirens blaring, the cars roar up to the barricade of a heavily fortified whi

LOWER PORT ASSESSMENTSREDUCE EVERYONE'S COSTSI am writing in response to a letter from John

When President Clinton was plunged into a new scandal recently, France scoffed. A head of state in t

The preliminary agreement reached Friday on new U.S.-Japan bilateral aviation rights leaves much to

In his State of the Union speech, President Clinton committed his administration to acting to end ch

The United States is being asked to deposit $18 billion with the International Monetary Fund to enab

Numbers in Washington are not right or wrong. They are either useful or they are not. That's how one

Once again, as has happened almost annually since Iraq lost the Persian Gulf War, we are on the brin

GOLD BUGSDON'T SHINEThe letter published Dec. 8 on Page 6A written by Alfred Peterson in res

After D-Day in 1944, Winston Churchill said, ''This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of

If bandits staked out a U.S. business district and obstructed customers, there would be hell to pay.

Social Security may have an uncertain future in the United States - President Clinton's announcement

Britain is facing one of the knottiest questions in its long history of dealing with its neighbors:

The rise in residential telephone rates as an outgrowth of the telecommunications act has caught law

CUTS IN PORT ASSESSMENTSLOWER COSTS FOR EVERYONEIn a letter to the editor on Jan. 22 (Page 6

As the 15th People's Congress approaches, the Chinese government stands at a crossroads. The directi

We should have seen the Asian crisis coming. You do not have to be a financial analyst to know that

In spite of the best efforts of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to maintain consumer price s

Organized labor, which defeated the White House on ''fast-track'' trade authority last year, has bee