Commentary

For Jacques Delors, former president of the European Union Commission, a single EU currency is but a

When Manne Dipico, the new premier of South Africa's Northern Cape province, greeted his newly assig

Russia's June 16 presidential election is causing jitters in Western political and business circles.

U.S. and Japanese negotiators recently signed an air cargo agreement that affects far more than tran

Last week's decision in Geneva to extend the telecommunications trade talks may produce a global dea

Cuddly grandfather. Friendly guy behind the counter. John Sweeney resembles a lot of things, but not

President Clinton had petroleum reserves to tap last week to bring gasoline prices down. Too bad for

You're watching ''Seinfeld'' when an ad comes on for a certain diet cola. You watch the ad. When it'

Boris Yeltsin is trying something new in Azerbaijan to help Russia gain a share of Caspian oil riche

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A historic bargaining process is currently unfolding among private businesses from both sides of the

Grain stocks are at record lows. Prices of cereals, especially coarse grain, are at record highs. Th

There's some discouraging news ahead for the Clinton administration, the AFL-CIO and other organized

The argument from business commonly goes like this: ''If it weren't for those (expletive deleted) en

In the early days of the cellular telephone business, competing companies waged war to acquire subsc

A recent report by New York's Regional Plan Association and a spate of pessimistic news stories proj

Spain stands in the forefront of Europe, but in a category that pleases no Spaniard: In a European U

It has been many years coming, but Japanese consumers, it seems, are starting to like foreign cars.

Rep. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat on the House Asian Affairs subcommittee, made a friendly pitch

The action's thick at the mini baccarat table. This is James Bond's game: high rollers, long odds, t

Until Nov. 18, Mexico's soaring crime rate was, to me, just another grim social trend. It became a p

When the Uruguay Round trade negotiations were launched in 1986, the United States identified a dram

A new World Bank study confirms what economists have been saying for years: Free trade is good for a

The Senate Finance Committee meets today to consider several important and long overdue trade bills.

Since 1986, Haiti has been ravaged by political strife as the country has struggled to overcome deca

The national debate about ''good jobs at good pay'' - how many, how much and for whom - has taken an

I was relieved to learn recently that the governors are in favor of high academic standards for stud

All's fair in love, war and, apparently, the Olympics. That's what some savvy marketers feel, and th

Last week, the United States and its trading partners failed to reach an agreement to open the world

When German President Roman Herzog helped open the U.S. exhibit at last month's industrial fair in H

Privatizing state-owned companies is a routine occurence everywhere in the world - everywhere, that

Business is growing increasingly digital. Sensitive commercial and financial data are moving over th

Are we spending too much on AIDS research and prevention, to the neglect of far more prevalent deadl

It was the summer I had just turned six, so I can't swear all the details are exactly as I recall th

Somewhere between his duck-hook drive off the first tee at the Biltmore Golf Course and his stubbed

California's consumer advocates, battle weary but wise from the state's recent effort to deregulate

An ocean shipping deregulation bill passed the House of Representatives last week, an important mile

You can't keep a good economy down, it seems. Just when it looked like the slow-growth blues were re

NO SECRET DEALSIN OCEAN SHIPPINGRichard Collins' recent column questioning the motives of th

Good legislation should strike a balance between social and economic issues and the public interest.