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When India's voters booted the ruling Congress Party from power last week, they ushered in a period

NOT TOO FASTWITH FAST FACTSYour April 18 Fast Facts column contained an item entitled, ''Por

Forty-three million jobs have been eliminated in the United States since 1979. Many of these downsiz

Comic books are cool.They are less formidable than a full blown tome, more involved than a f

''Europe Day? Never heard of it,'' was the response from nearly all those questioned by a British TV

While President Clinton was admonishing the world to adhere strictly to the Bosnian arms embargo, he

Railroads have had a big year: Big profits, big mergers and now, perhaps, big strikes. President Cli

Japan's trade officials have blasted the United States for blocking an international telecom deal in

Why is Nynex spending millions on name-identification ads when it is about to become Bell Atlantic?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

DON'T CALL MEBIG BROTHERWe take exception to your April 11 article ''LA-LB tracking device d

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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