Commentary

Big mergers mean big money. Yet, among companies that actually manage money - banks, securities firm

The Transatlantic Business Dialogue, a U.S.-European commercial forum, has borne its first fruit: an

Tomorrow the U.S. International Trade Commission gives the Clinton administration its assessment of

The German government beat a hasty retreat from its plan to fudge the nation's finances by revaluing

Trying to stem the large trade deficit with China by restricting imports would only lead to higher p

The Commerce Department announced last week that the combined budgets of federal, state and local go

President Clinton recently asked the U.S. business community to support NATO expansion and, last wee

Now that the Senate and the House have passed the 1998 budget resolution, Congress and the president

If the trial lawyers can contain their greed, if the anti-tobacco extremists can be held in check an

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien gambled, as did his French counterpart, in calling a general e

Several days ago, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer sent a letter to President Cli

In the more than 60 years that has elapsed since Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Act, a mounting

Alan Hale, co-discoverer of the Hale-Bopp comet, has been telling interviewers that students should

The Trans-Atlantic Conference Agreement is trying again. TACA, the 16-member group that controls shi

June 1 marked the start of the 1997 hurricane season, and meteorologists are predicting a very activ

President Clinton and European leaders have celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan and

Not until eight days before Harvard's commencement exercises did Secretary of State George C. Marsha

When it comes to global foreign direct investment flows, the developed nations set the pace. Indeed,

After he arrived in conquered Berlin to attend the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, President Harry

Western allies, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, last week endorsed President

In a stunning rebuke to France's ruling center-right coalition and of President Jacques Chirac, spec

The Clinton administration has cut a budget deal with congressional Republicans that substantially e

On the edge of a palm-shaded park in Pat Heung in Hong Kong's New Territories, a bulldozer claws at

For most Americans, Africa is a forbidding place of disease and slaughter. Aside from the horrors of

America's standards of housekeeping have taken a steep plunge now that keeping house no longer feels

Weary of the federal government's habit of enacting popular environmental and other reforms but impo

Say you're on vacation and need emergency medical care. Should the doctor you visit be able to pull

Not long ago, former Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis insisted Conrail couldn't be privatized - t

How well do your key people serve as corporate ambassadors? Good manners and following protocol make

When he arrived in Mexico a few weeks ago, President Clinton got his first state visit to Latin Amer

After the most violent electoral campaign in decades, Indonesia's President Suharto has won yet anot

The Commerce Department is about to issue a preliminary ruling on perhaps the most provocative steel

When Congress tried to curb frivolous lawsuits last year, President Clinton delivered a verdict of

A senior Florida legislator recently declared that our university's library system no longer needed

When the United States imposed its grain embargo on the Soviet Union in 1980, farmers in Canada, Fra

Over the last several years, Vietnam has undertaken an intensive campaign to become ''the next China

Despite continued layoffs, re-engineering and restructuring, corporate America is making significant

President Boris Yeltsin of Russia accomplished a great deal this week. He signed the Founding Act on

Laurent Kabila, the man who was once praised by a fellow Marxist guerrilla for understanding that th

Downsizings, mergers, takeovers, poison pills. With the business news full of public-company turmoil