Commentary

Earlier this year, a computer with a name defeated a reigning chess champion in a symbolic victory t

What supports one out of every five U.S. manufacturing jobs and one out of every three acres planted

As Congress begins debate over the highway funding bill (known by its acronym Istea, pronounced ''ic

The future of the World Trade Organization may depend on a case that is expected to be resolved in t

China's President Jiang Zemin went out of his way to meet with members of the Chinese-American commu

Is the nation ready for El Nino? Michael Duve wants to know.''Acapulco wiped out,'' he frett

The European Union is expected to make a last-ditch effort today to overturn a July World Trade Orga

When Joe Liemandt decided to drop out of Stanford University, he had more than his father's wrath to

Ireland's problem used to be that it had too many people for too few jobs. New figures from the Cent

Europe's inward investment agencies are waging civil war.In the past, the bidding for foreig

Whether Worldcom Chief Executive Bernard J. Ebbers is successful or not in consummating his $30 bill

As China's President Jiang Zemin wraps up his U.S. trip, one thing is clear. There were no dramatic

Farmers from Canada, the United States and Mexico have come up with a good, though by no means uniqu

NS' SAFETY REPUTATIONIS WORSE THAN ITS RECORDJames McClellan, vice president of strategic pl

A computer-industry executive was reflecting on the delayed introduction of Microsoft's Windows 95 o

The Federal Railroad Administration is again turning up the heat under the Union Pacific Railroad, s

With the possible exceptions of baby boomers and professional athletes, there is nothing in American

Earlier this year, President Clinton announced his support for a bold Africa trade initiative which

The approaching vote in Congress on fast-track trade authority isn't about an obscure congressional

It was a long time in coming, but merger mania is finally sweeping continental Europe. European merg

France and Greece both signaled in their own small ways this week that the European Union is working

PRIVATIZATIONOF AMTRAK WRONGIf a patient were on the brink of dying of starvation, would the

President Clinton's sudden change of heart on the Internal Revenue Service overhaul bill must strike

For a gambler, the Internet is a tempting target. By typing in the address ''www.funscape.com'' on a

In forcing a showdown with Japan over port access earlier this month, Federal Maritime Commission Ch

Both President Clinton and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan have recently said now is the tim

U.S. trade officials went to Tokyo this week brandishing a complaint that the Japanese government is

Were life but computer-generated charts, Americans who work on and live near the nation's ubiquitous

To say that Hong Kong was responsible for Monday's decline on the New York Stock Exchange is grossly

As China's president, Jiang Zemin, prepares to return home, the question remains: Does China want Wo

FMC'S CREELDESERVES PRAISEI refer to your front page Oct. 20 article (''Creel pushes himself

It was more than a century after the founding of the United States before George Washington was comm

During a week of topsy-turvy market gyrations sparked by mismanaged Southeast Asian economies, a som

Here we go again. About 25 years ago it was IBM, now it's Microsoft. The U.S. Justice Department jus

How does it feel to be in the middle of a fight between the United States and the European Union, to

Fretting about your lack of height gets you nowhere. Or as the Bible, backed up by modern medical sc

Appeasement. Cowardice. Kow-towing.Bill Clinton has been accused of all these, and more, as

The news media has been abuzz with the Coast Guard's recent ''blockading'' of Japanese ships from U.

Nations grow increasingly skittish about foreign influence. U.S. voters balk at hemispheric integrat

Rabbi David Ariel Yoel arrived at his synagogue early one morning during this month's religious holi