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Add to the woes of Japan's post-bubble economy and its heightened exposure to Asian currency turmoil

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Asian International Monetary Fund restructuring plans designed to address the currency crisis are st

The interdependence of the world's economy becomes quite apparent when financial troubles in one cou

The holiday season is in full swing as Cindy Crawford floats across television screens reminding men

Imagine lederhosen-clad peasants dancing to oompah music. Busty waitresses serving giant steins of O

When architects designed the U.S. Capitol more than 130 years ago, they carved tobacco leaves beneat

History's most famous Bosnian, Gavro Princip - whose assassination of an Austrian leader sparked Wor

New car sales in Japan fell more than 20 percent in November, raising European anxiety levels. Europ

As the Clinton administra- tion weighs narrowing the scope of ''fast-track'' trade authority next ye

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Had Adolph Hitler won his war against Russia, he had an economic reform plan that should ring a bell

Almost unnoticed in the turbulence of the South Korea economic crisis has been the splintering and d

A recurrent argument behind the open markets and free-trade debate holds that U.S. manufacturing is

Import growth in Japan is weak and getting weaker. The same is true in the rest of Asia, where slugg

So how bad, really, is Asia's economic crisis? South Korea, the world's 11th-largest economy, this w

It is almost more than the news media can bear, certainly more than we can properly cover.Th

In July 1993, the European Union instituted its banana import regime, putting in place a license sys

Telecommunications deregulation - made law under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 - is bogged down

English cattle farmers haven't had it easy. The outbreak of mad cow disease that has killed 22 peopl

Business and other interest groups are waging a multimillion dollar media campaign to convince the U

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For decades, the price of milk in the United States has been set under a convoluted system of federa

It's time the nation took stock of New Labor.Two years ago, the AFL-CIO threw out the old gu

This week at a conference in Malaysia, International Monetary Fund head Michel Camdessus outlined ''

The traditional concept of flag-state control for ship stems from the requirement for and possession

Enormous deposits of ice-like crystals beneath the seabed could provide enough energy to power North

Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the dour leftist politician, will be sworn in as mayor of Mexico City on Friday

With the largest work force and the richest diversity of economic resources in Central America, Guat

Assuming for a moment that American negotiators succeed in promoting President Clinton's global warm

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ANTITRUST IMMUNITYSEEN AS MISGUIDEDThe prologue to a famous Frank Sinatra song says, ''As I

After Jiang Zemin returned to Beijing, most Americans turned their attention away from China. Within

Faced with stiff opposition, the Federal Trade Com- mission Monday left unchanged the narrower defi

This is supposed to be the Year of the Balanced Budget. It turned out to be the year of the largest-

The South African Revenue Service offices in downtown Cape Town emptied one recent morning as the en

Among the pine trees of northern Greece, Aristotle is at the heart of a simmering war with a group o

If a single image hovers above the conference on global warming being held this week in Kyoto, Japan

Russia is caught up in the contagion spreading from the financial turmoil in Southeast Asia.

President Clinton's proposal to return greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2008-2012 leaves a