Commentary

FOR SILVIO BERLUSCONI, the hard part is just beginning. The Italian media tycoon, who led a

ANOTHER COLD WAR relic fades into history this week. The 17-nation Coordinating Committee on Multila

IT SAYS A LOT ABOUT BRAZIL that South America's largest country is rarely mentioned as a candidate f

COMPETITIVENESS MATTERS TO THE USYour March 9 editorial "Do Economies Compete?" argues that

Consider India. Its import duties (basic and auxiliary) on textile yarns and fibers run as high as 1

Eight miles an hour was the rate of transportation by horse and buggy in 1894. It is also the rate o

Defeatism in the boardroom has caused the current recession in Japan. Call it a failure of will or c

Throughout the Cold War, American Sovietologists repeatedly admonished the Soviet Union and Eastern

THERE'S NO LOVE LOST between U.S. and European aviation negotiators these days, but that hasn't stop

INTERNATIONAL TALKS to end shipyard subsidies came to an abrupt halt in Paris last week. Billed as a

During the first quarter investors finally recognized the potential for inflation in the Federal Res

In commercial circles, China is chic again. The last such time, in the early 1980s, the excitement w

Europe's love affair with the automobile may soon come to an end. But it won't be an easy parting. W

INTEL CORP., already the dominant computer chip maker in China, is consolidating its hold. The compa

You can choose your own moral for the story about the Clintons and their income taxes. It's

THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION last week averted a major showdown between U.S. environmental laws and wo

The fractious U.S.-Japan trade debate comes down to this: Who gets the high- skill, high-wage jobs?

Wrangling over the content of legislation designed to combat foreign shipbuilding subsidies intensif

As the health-care debate rages in Washington, medical technology companies, despite a bruising regu

AFTER ENDLESS AGONIZING over federal budget cuts, it's tempting to think government spending has pre

A backlash against immigrants is whipping through industrial nations, slamming borders shut. The rea

When the United States failed to reach agreement with Japan last month in bilateral framework negoti

THE HUGE SETTLEMENT this week of a class-action lawsuit against makers of silicone breast implants w

U.S. officials have spent recent months lecturing Chinese leaders on the evils of building a booming

POISED JUST THREE MONTHS AGO to begin a new economic era, Mexico today faces its most uncertain poli

Following the collapse of the U.S.-Japan summit last month, the world held its breath waiting for th

The January start of the North American Free Trade Agreement has unleashed a wave of grandstanding i

THERE'S HOPE for beleaguered Britons who are terminally nice to others, even to those who take advan

CONGRESS is ready to grant one of the Clinton administration's fondest wishes: a rapid increase in g

AMERICA'S UNCERTAIN STEEL POLICYIs the Multilateral Steel Agreement dead, as Richard

FOR ALL THE TALK of a pending trade fight with Washington, China's biggest problems remain at home.

THERE'S A LOT TO LIKE in Bill Clinton's new maritime reform plan. Ship lines will be free tobuy thei

A proposed federal rule that would reserve a fraction of the U.S. reformulated gasoline market for f

Japanese consumers are being treated to a sight they haven't seen in decades. In downtown Tokyo this

It is morning in Latin America. All over the continent, nations are acting to reignite growt

Mr. Clinton has become the first U.S. leader to announce an explicit technology strategy, founded on

Geography can be used in international affairs to transmit an important message. President Clinton s

THE HIDDEN SIDE of U.S. trade is about to see the light of day. For the first time, the federal gove

To be a German official operating within the European Union diplomatic framework is to be confronted

BILLIONS OF BARRELS of crude oil lie beneath the frozen tundra of Alaska's North Slope - a resource