Instead, he and Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown spent most of the time listening to a debate on many issues surrounding an overhaul of the country's telecommunications laws.

"There are no preconditions" for resuming the talks, Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown said at a news conference in Washington.

A Navy team was kept from destroying part of the system around Bermuda this month only by the intervention of Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown.

He also referred to the late Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, "who risked his life and lost his life to come to Croatia.

Under the Clinton Administration, the cash problem in Saudi Arabia has drawn Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown to Riyadh.

In 1995, she was appointed, by then Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, to the 2000 Census Advisory Committee.

American executives, a planeload, are now at table, ushered in by Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown to make deals, without reference to human rights.

Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown, who signed the agreement with Japan's Ambasador here, Takakazu Kuriyama, expressed pleasure and a degree of hope about its effects.

The firm claimed to be especially close to Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and did manage to broker a few meetings for Tamraz.

Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown, was blunter, saying today on a CNBC program that Washington would consider using sanctions against Japan if the talks were unsuccessful.