Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

KYOTO SUPPORTERSIGNORE REAL COSTSRobert Repetto and Cresencia Maurere argue (''Climate Pact

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

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

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

No sooner had President Clinton made the momentous decision to get a dog than the questions began.

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

The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that U.S. employment and wage growth for November w

Critics of the financial services agreement just reached in Geneva say it doesn't go far enough. Sup

U.S. policy in the Middle East - more specifically the Persian Gulf - has always been based on the b

Here's one for you: Why did the travel agents postpone their meeting in Washington last week?

The local elections held last month in Taiwan drove home two points that should be taken to heart by

It's unusual for the Environmental Protection Agency to announce a full-scale review of a new regula

In an unprecedented decision, the European Union's court ruled that France ''restricted trade'' by l

The U.S. shipping industry was recently given a loud warning about the fragility of the 1916 law tha