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Bob Dole likes to say he saved Social Security, a claim he repeated in his debate with President Cli

To outsiders, the science of economics can look obscure at best, or silly at worst. It's why economi

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The government of Brazil has shown once again that it is more interested in thumbing its nose at the

The Clinton administration has made little progress this year in opening new foreign markets and has

Washington's continuing discord with Cuba has become the center of a worldwide controversy.M

Maintaining a strong national defense and protecting people from poverty are the pillars that have c

P&O Containers and Nedlloyd Lines need to do something about the Pacific.The two companies p

Let's say you're selling your house and, after months of searching, you've found a potential buyer.

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European governments say America's anti-Cuba trade and investment policy interferes with their ties

The Japanese construction industry may require ISO 9000 registration as a condition to do business i

Last week's meeting here of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank seemed remarkable for

The reaction of Americans to immigration has always been like a pendulum, kept in motion by a combin

When ''The Nanny,'' a popular American television show, signed off for the summer season, viewers we

The scene has become all too familiar. A company announces plans to restructure and lays off hundred

Kudos to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, better known as the Nobel committee, for spotlightin

MAKE FISH FARMINGENVIRONMENTALLY SOUNDDennis Avery's Op-Ed, ''Farming: a fish story'' (Sept.

For decades, regulatory reform has been seen as a domestic remedy to heavy-handed - and usually disr

The first presidential ''debate'' between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole was notable for what the candida

The U.S. media treated the 17th National Assembly of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), do

Two decades ago, Congress rejected proposals for a constitutional amendment to guarantee Americans t

A modest establishment called the Beauty Hut sits at 20 East 125th Street in Manhattan, a made-over

Alexander Lebed, the ambitious national security adviser to Russia's President Boris Yeltsin, is bec

The United States is still entangled in Haiti.Forty American soldiers arrived in Port-au-Pri

What was once a top-secret Israeli military technology now allows broadcasters to create stadium and

Judges are very much in the news these days. Politicians and the public increasingly criticize indiv

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Bob Dole had a chance Sunday night to zero-in on Bill Clinton's main weakness - the so-called charac

As someone who was deeply involved in the reauthorization process for the U.S. Export-Import Bank al

New Europe is winning the war against Old Europe.Stock markets across Europe are scaling new

At this stage of a presidential campaign, we always have a torrent of new ideas from the candidates.

Renato Ruggiero, the World Trade Organization's director-general, last week proposed that industrial

''It is easier to die than to live in Russia!''This rather foreboding headline to an article

Mexico is in trouble.Two rebel forces are fighting the government, and the government, in tu

The European Union has opened a nasty can of worms by challenging Washington's Cuba policy in the Wo

President Clinton is not the only born-again political centrist. His British soon-to-be counterpart,

FEDEX ACTS LIKEROBBER BARONSIt comes as no surprise that you would blindly editorialize in f

The prevailing wisdom in Washington says you can't cut taxes and balance the budget at the same time

Nicaragua's Sandinistas could conceivably return to power later this month. Honduras, Guatemala and