Commentary

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT can come at a high cost in countries as rich in history as Egypt. With

On the surface, the economy perked up last summer. According to the Commerce Department's initial gu

RAILROADS are easy prey for tax-hungry states. Who better to overtax than non- voting, non-resident

In its recent report to President Clinton and Congress, the NationalCommission to Ensure a S

Japanese business is rediscovering Asia. After more than four decades of depending on the U.S. marke

MONDAY MARKED THE ENTRY into force of the Maastricht Treaty, a major step on the road to a unified E

When President Clinton traveled to Oakland, Calif., this summer, he sounded what should become the b

Air France workers may have crippled the airline for the past couple of weeks as they protested agai

AS IF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY didn't have enough problems aligning its divergent economies, Greece, i

PAYING SEAMEN _ AND SENATORSSen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is wrong to claim that a master on

DIESEL FUEL PRICES have soared in the past few weeks. The new federal fuel tax and a new national re

AIR FRANCE has bought labor peace - at a steep price. France's bloated government-owned airl

"Federal agencies do many things not because they make sense but because they have always been done

As Congress begins to look at funding and managing a national health-care program, one of the areas

U.S. companies are miffed by what they see as a contradiction in the Clinton administration's polici

At an international conference in Mexico last week, an official from Japan's Ministry of Internation

NO ONE IS CELEBRATING yet, but evidence is mounting that the U.S. economy is, in President Clinton's

AMERICAN COMPANIES and their workers have taken a bum rap. The popular perception is that U.S. indus

US HAS NOT CHANGED INDIA EXPORT RULESContrary to your Oct. 22 article, "U.S. May Ease Export

All intercity railroad passenger service in the United States will come to a halt at 2 a.m., Oct. 31

The coverage of events in Haiti, Somalia and Russia has been abundant on front pages and television

Recall Project Independence? It was in February 1974. President Nixon proposed it to "re-est

KEEPING TAX DODGES AT BAY IN CALIFORNIAIt is no surprise that your Oct. 18 editorial, "Calif

The state of Guanajuato, 150 miles northwest of Mexico City, has long been a harbinger of change. It

BASHING JAPAN to sell the North American free-trade agreement is poor politics and even worse trade

MOST INDUSTRIES survive and prosper by asking customers what they want and adapting their products a

The seven-year marathon Uruguay Round of trade talks under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trad

CANADA'S POLITICAL MAP has been redrawn. After nine years in opposition, the Liberal Party stormed b

Rep. Henry Gonzalez, the populist Texas Democrat who heads the House Banking Committee, has launched

It's billed as a one-day trip to Russia. Starting at 4:30 a.m., several Tokyo-based journalists are

ASIA'S EMERGENCE as the world's leading economic region is nowhere more obvious than in the rising f

SECURITY has become the Clinton administration's new watchword: secure health care, security from cr

FIGHTING THE LAWS ON DUMPINGIn his Oct. 7 opinion article, Prof. Kent Jones argues forcefull

In my neighborhood of Arlington, Va., the parking lot at the Ames department store is always full. S

Germany is tired of playing Mr. Nice Guy. Germans are finally shedding half a century of gui

Since the mid-1980s, the world economic order has been undergoing a profound transition. At the hear

ROSS PEROT and labor unions notwithstanding, the North American free-trade agreement would be a net

The Clinton administration is winning kudos from some steel traders for standing tough against Big S

The encouraging news from the U.S. Postal Service is that despite a $1.3 billion deficit this year,

VIETNAM is capitalizing quickly on its newfound international acceptance. The Asian Developm