Here's a challenge for policy-makers of the 2010s. It is to not just balance economic growth and environmental maintenance but make them a single, unified ambition.

But a Westminster fiance helps keep business steady Jalna Brown (right) and Lori Welsh-Graham (left) are co-owners of Dutterer's Flower Shop in Westminster with their mother, Eileen Dutterer Gist. "We deal with perishable items," Brown said. "You c

A new law that allows French companies to negotiate their way out of a 35-hour work rule is meeting resistance from both workers and the employers it was meant to benefit.

As China's quasi-market economy faces potentially the worst decline in two decades, the capacity of business to cope with a cyclical downturn is being brought sharply into focus. One example: the trend of executive disappearances.

WILMINGTON, Del. - Tim Pawliczek, owner of Cavanaugh's Restaurant in Wilmington, knows what the economic downturn can do to the bottom line, so it doesn't make him feel good to benefit from the demise of another business.