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South Korea's bulging current-account deficit, a negative ''foreign exchange liquidity index'' and d

In August of 1996, the Food and Drug Administration finalized new regulations curtailing tobacco adv

Congress has found an answer at last to the 800-year-old conflict in Ireland.Golf videos.And

What does your employer know about you? Thanks to technology, just about anything it wants. There is

Vice President Al Gore went to Beijing last week to assure China's communist leaders that no matter

South Korea, recently admitted to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, has tak

With retail competition in the electric utility industry a looming reality, one thorny issue that mu

Last month, executives at the Liggett Group, maker of Chesterfield and other brands of cigarettes, a

Earlier this week the European Union took a small, but potentially significant, step toward deregula

Japan's collusive and discriminatory port practices are taking a well-deserved drubbing from the Uni

Canadians, beware! Unless immediate action is taken, Canada will become the 51st state of the Americ

The McCarthyist aberration in America smeared individuals, eroded civil debate and contributed to th

LEASING NAVY TERMINALTO COSCO BENEFITS ALLI want to commend you for your March 18 editorial

Farmers in the rich countries tend to take their transportation for granted. We're long past the day

The fun part of watching the legislative follies in Washington is to note the absurd guises various

Akey partner in India's wobbly coalition government is threatening to pull out unless Prime Minister

Last month marked the 40th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the agreement establishing the forerun

As the new Congress and the executive branch get down to business, the time has come to restore mome

The cry goes out, ''American workers can no longer compete with the world!'' The complaint is that t

Foreign aid is not the most popular government program. As most taxpayers are aware, much of America

Government price fixing is never a pretty business. Under the guise of protecting the public, bureau

NO NEED TO CHANGEORIGIN LABELING RULESI am writing to set the record straight on claims by t

Doing business today often means going abroad. And going abroad always means encountering different

U.S. consumers will pay a price for their government's decision on Tuesday to cut imports of Europea

Now that Japan's fiscal year is drawing to a close, we can look ahead for the next year with some op

With memories of the Uruguay Round's bitter agri- cultural trade disputes just starting to fade, tr

Earlier this year, the impossible happened - or so it seemed. The chairman of a massive government-c

The U.S. Congress is about to get a dose of its own medicine, as the Capitol Hill police vote whethe

President Clinton says ''the era of big government is over,'' and his budget claims to be ''cutting

Long-distance telephone competition officially arrives today in this sprawling capital. The new carr

Let the annals of trade history record that the Clinton administration's opening pitch for an expand

It takes a cloned sheep or the mystery of mad cow disease to put agricultural research on the front

Britain's general election on May 1 should be a cinch for Prime Minister John Major. The economy is

The anti-China trade lobby, an eclectic mixture of conservatives, protectionists, labor unions and c

Two Swiss chemical companies have agreed to pay $25 million in criminal fines and plead guilty to co

Remember Clintoncare and its massive task force of 500 experts, all working in secret to overhaul th

The European Union has announced it will pump $2.1 billion in subsidies into shipyards in Spain, Ger

WHY NOT SPEND HIGHWAYFUNDS ON AMTRAK?Rick Henderson's article entitled ''Tasty highway pork'

''Reform the United Nations'' has long been a rallying cry for those who think the world body is spe

Boris Yeltsin changes Cabinet ministers like most people change socks. In pursuit of economic restru