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CRIES OF "YANKEE GO HOME" seemed to reach a crescendo Monday in the Philippines, where more than hal

Lobbying for trade interests on Capitol Hill is not what is used to be. Today, business lobbyists ap

A SHIPYARD BY ANY OTHER NAMEYour story on Crowley Maritime's decision to pursue a tanker con

FIDEL CASTRO IS DETERMINED to keep Cuba's one-party Communist government intact in the wake of Commu

Insurance, long discussed over stifled yawns, is now giving some people sleepless nights. The sharp

The Bush administration this week is slated to give Congress its views on the 1990 U.S.-Soviet trade

As the controversy over unskilled foreign workers in Japan drags on, the illegal labor force has swe

MEXICO'S MID-TERM ELECTIONS were a test of Carlos Salinas de Gortari's commitment to political refor

OMNIPORT ARTICLE MISJUDGED REPORTThe Aug. 23 issue of your paper contained an article, "Port

SCHOOLS ARE NOT ASSEMBLY LINES. Yet many would-be education experts cannot resist the temptation to

The revolt of the Russian people against the Bolshevik coup was the first step on the path to buildi

For the European Community, the revolution in the Soviet Union - and the chaos in Yugoslavia - have

UNION DEMOCRACY IS EXPENSIVE. The federal government has spent the last two years cleaning up the Te

In his role as chairman of the President's Council on Competitiveness, Vice President Dan Quayle has

TAXES INEVITABLY CREEP UPWARD, but they may be heading higher than anyone thought. Beyond th

MANAGEMENT ERRORS RAILROAD'S DOWNFALLI normally would not presume to comment on indu

Critics of the American airline industry point with horror to the surge in near-midair collisions -

Horror stories from luckless travelers about flight delays and long lines at Tokyo's Narita and Osak

FILING RATES WITH THE GOVERNMENT is one of the hallmarks of maritime regulation. But does rate filin

Cancel the funeral. Contrary to lugubrious reports, science in America is not expiring from financia

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER JOHN MAJOR wanted it known that his meeting with Chinese Premier LiPeng this

Waste management has become both a major environmental issue and a trade policy predicament. One cou

JAPAN'S IMAGE as a mercantilist nation is only reinforced by the latest trade figures. The Japanese

TEAMSTERS, LONGSHOREMEN, locomotive engineers the names fairly ring with the sound of militant unio

AUTO IMPORTS STORY MISSING SOME FACTSWe have read your article, "In the Land of the

On the subject of political parties, humorist Will Rogers once stated: "I belong to no organized par

In responding to the gripping events in the Soviet Union, the European Community has done well to di

"HOW CAN THERE BE TALK of building communism when the revisionist . . . cliques are leading the Sovi

In these heady, revolutionary times, Russian President Boris Yeltsin is emerging as a Latin-style st

Twenty West African countries have launched a collective bid to confront the multibillion-dollar glo

No one is weeping today for the death of communism or totalitarianism in the Soviet Union, least of

FINES FOR OIL SPILLS EXCEED CRIMES' COSTSYour article "Phillips to Pay $4 Million to Settle

TRASH IS BIG BUSINESS. For the companies that treat and transport it, municipal solid waste - paper,

The collapse of the Iron Curtain has brought home the dismal failure of economic central planning. I

There is not much here now: a stone slab, the rusted cover of what may have been a cistern, two seve

At least 32 million Americans - 12 million of whom are children - have no health insurance. One out

ACROSS THE U.S. FINANCIAL SPECTRUM, regulators are devising ways to avoid a repeat of the big insolv

Now for the business management lessons we can learn from last week's failed Soviet coup. Yo

Just before it went into summer recess last month, the Senate did a startling thing. It approved a c

THE "NIMBY" SYNDROME - Not in My Back Yard - is alive and well in Santa Barbara, Calif. Residents of