Commentary

Late last month, the government and the guerrillas in Guatemala signed an agreement ending Central A

Human resources officials of U.S. companies abroad are being told to ignore foreign workplace hiring

The end of a sad chapter in the history of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. could be near. Canadian Pacific

NO WINNERS IN NEWESTAFGHANISTAN STRIFEOn Sept. 27, Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul fell

While the rest of the world was celebrating on New Year's Eve, tens of thousands of valiant citizens

From the birth of economics in the 18th century, economists have tried to identify what promotes gro

For free-trade aficionados, 1996 wasn't much of a year.The only major multilateral achieveme

Western Europe is headed for a radically different farm policy. We don't know what it will look like

America remains largely in denial about the implications of an aging society.This attitude i

The time has come to either rate the best stories of 1996 or predict what will happen in 1997. I pre

Down in New Orleans, a certain pilot is a local hero.His quick thinking and action, most agr

A thorough overhaul of primary and secondary education in America will likely be high on the priorit

Queen Elizabeth II has announced she will ennoble rock star Paul McCartney, making him the first Bea

The ship was riding out the ice storm, at anchor south of Cape May Point, when my pal the pilot rush

1997 is shaping up as a decisive year for the transportation industries and their customers. From a

The year-end figures will show 1996 to be another record year for the U.S. trade deficit. The number

REVISITING A 'TRADETRIP FROM HELL'From every experience we are supposed to learn, and to use

Cigarette makers have had a 40-year winning streak in lawsuits against smokers and their estates, pe

As political anthropologists sift through the election returns searching for deep meaning, the most

Don't expect America's relations with China to get warm and panda-like any time soon.Visit C

Truckers across Europe have had a miserable few weeks.First, the fire in the Channel Tunnel

America's bullish tale of moderate economic growth and low inflation continues to unfold. Inflation

Soon it will be the Year of the Ox - suitable, since many ship lines may find theirs gored,and by a

More fun than making New Year's resolutions - but equally likely to lead to embarrassment - is the a

The Clinton administration is pulling out all the stops to confirm Charlene Barshefsky as the U.S. t

The unfolding hostage drama in Peru is only one symptom of a disorder now spreading through large po

The Treasury Department is considering a request from Cargill Inc., the giant Minneapolis grain deal

My head exploded a couple of weeks ago.Here in the land of Bill Gates, the Silicon Forest an

One of the secrets of China's remarkable economic success is, ironically, its political enemy, Taiwa

THE STEADY PROGRESSOF MEXICO'S REFORMSAndrew Reding's suggestion in his Dec. 19 opinion arti

There is an old Alka Seltzer commercial in which a guy who has just gorged himself cries in nausea,

* ''Half the time, I am dealing with bureaucrats who don't understand this new (market globalization

Israel and Egypt have been at peace for 18 years, but relations don't seem to have warmed up much si

President Clinton's recent trip to the Pacific Rim included neither Taiwan nor China, but he did mee

Since 1994, the battle cry of budget-cutters in Washington has been to cut corporate welfare. Well-i

The year 1996 will not graduate into history summa cum laude. True, much of the globe is living in p

What do singing warthogs, political advisers to movie stars, prisoners growing organic vegetables an

ALLOWING UTILITIESTO BURN USED PLUTONIUMRather than trying to figure out what to do with plu

The stock market is ending 1996 with a flourish. Prices and trading volumes are at or near record le

The World Trade Organization's negotiations to liberalize the global telecommunications market are e