Commentary

AGENTS ARE LIABLEFOR PORTS' BUSINESS RISKSI am writing you to respond to the letter by W.M.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'UNSATISFYING MANNER'OF REPORTING ON SPEECHESI am writing to take exception to your coverage

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

Don't believe everything you read about the demise of the written word. Despite the proliferation of

''It wasn't in the speech when I left on Tuesday night,'' said Mark Helprin, who wrote most of Bob D

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

Some call them ''sweeteners.'' Others prefer ''inducements.'' In a few countries they're even known

The first human to light a fire was surely glad to have it. But equally welcome was the implied less

The U.S. Council for International Business (USCIB) believes that modernization of customs practices

NEW USES FORTHE MARSHALL PLANIn his Sept. 20th opinion article, ''Mothballing Cold War Think

In this presidential election year, it has become fashionable to advocate faster economic growth as

Kids pick up their first cigarette for a variety of reasons. Some do it for kicks, some to see how i

The state of the economy always becomes an election year issue, but misleading government statistics