Commentary

It's assumed, backed by data, that states near borders or the sea are best positioned to trade with

The Kyoto, Japan, conference on global climate change has focused attention on the future costs and

Is the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development shipbuilding agreement dead? Not yet, b

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Giving is an important holiday tradition. Like many activities, however, it is best done in moderati

Time, we are told, heals all wounds. In the Middle East, despite repeated wars and long-standing gri

After 30 years, Christmas in Cuba is back, restored by presidential decree.No official Chris

The financial turmoil in East Asia has created a lot of confusion among economists regarding its imp

Reverberations over the British government's treatment of foreign journalists are growing, amid conc

PLASTICS RECYCLINGIS A GROWING BUSINESSYour recent opinion piece by Richard Denison (''Plast

U.S. insurance companies are following their British counterparts by excluding millennium bomb cover

In Alfred Uhry's Broadway hit, ''The Last Night of Ballyhoo,'' the daughter of a Southern Jewish fam

Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz is politically savvy, and probably right, when he says his count

Last week, President Ernesto Zedillo surprised the international community by announcing that Treasu

In August 1997, a federal official supervising the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union

The buzz about electronic commerce is that it's the wave of the future for state and local governmen

The European Parliament is not held in high esteem by those it claims to represent. A legislature th

Of all the deficits afflicting Asia these days, none is more detrimental to the region's recovery th

Due to an editing error, an opinion piece on Dec. 18 Page 6A under the headline ''No dispute: The WT

Asian crisis or not, global trade will grow by as much as 7 percent next year, the World Trade Organ

By eliminating more than $5 billion in annual taxpayer subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, we cou

U.S. trading partners may challenge the Clinton administration's view that $400 million in subsidies

America's toy shoppers are racing down the homestretch now, and they're expected to spend even more

The signing last week of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development convention crimin

A European Union charge that an obscure provision in the U.S. tax code unlawfully subsidizes exports

A miasma of what might be described as ''low-intensity suspicion'' surrounds South Africa's deputy p

For 20 years, U.S. businesses lost billions of dollars in overseas business deals to unscrupulous fo

The Asian contagion is spreading. After speculative bubbles burst in erstwhile economic powerhouses

California Gov. Pete Wilson recently struck a small but significant blow against the massive civil l

GENERAL AVERAGE: THE CASEOF 3 GUYS AND A VOYAGETom Baldwin's column on the Mediterranean Shi

The U.S. government, at last, seems to have a sustained interest in the development of sub-Saharan A

There's no doubt that last week's British government conference on Nazi gold was a great achievement

China roundly applauded this week's decision by the European Commission to recognize some of its ref

Why do companies and government agencies continue to use outmoded technologies to clean up contamina

On the very day the president of the Bundesbank and a senior German politician suggested it might be

There is good news for Americans despite last week's preliminary ruling by a World Trade Organizatio

Philadelphians are celebrating. After months of negotiations, the city completed a deal this week wi

The projected computer meltdown in the year 2000 caused by the so-called millennium bug is more than

It's the consumer-protection news of the season. Some brands of hanging icicle lights, a favorite it

Santa may still come via Ohio, the home of America's three top toy manufacturers. But he is getting