Commentary

Naturalist Loren Eiseley once said, ''Modern man, the world eater, respects no space and no thing gr

Wednesday's editorial, ''Politics at Commerce,'' should have referred to a congressional, rather tha

Sometimes I have to read a newspaper article twice to make sure my eyes do not deceive me. Such was

Although it is almost a year since Congress passed a sweeping reform of telecommunications laws, Ame

Congress is gearing up for a new assault on ''corporate welfare'' - subsidy programs and tax breaks

1996 was a bad year for North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. Chosen by his late father, the Great

Three of every four insured American workers now get their health care through some form of managed

Will they buy? Or will they sell?The debate continues over whether or not foreign central ba

Earlier this month, President Clinton formally nominated Charlene Barshefsky to be the U.S. trade re

Pepsico is the latest among well-known companies stampeding out of Myanmar because of human rights v

OFF-BUDGET USER FEESARE FAIR TO HIGHWAY USERSRep. Bud Shuster, R-Pa., and his 123 colleagues

William M. Daley has pledged to Congress that, if confirmed as commerce secretary, he would root p

How should a company respond when a key executive defects to a competitor?What does the stri

As the new session of Congress gets under way, lawmakers are saddled with campaign promises of tax r

In the beginning was the Beetle.And Volkswagen saw that its ''people's car'' was good. It bu

You've seen the ads on TV: Glimmering, majestic passenger cruise ships gliding through night waters

Now that the U.S. Department of Energy has announced plans to burn immensely dangerous weapons-grade

It's bizarre to realize that the question of Taiwan's future could cause a war between America and C

THE NY-NJ PORT FREIGHTTUNNEL MAKES SENSE . . .Regarding Alan Abrams' opinion article, ''Tunn

In what looks from here to be a coup for Canada, Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy and Cuban President

Trent Lott is off to a dismal start. The new Congress has been in business less than a month, and al

For more than a decade, a handful of industrious trial lawyers have pocketed millions of dollars in

Something important is being lost in all the fuss over Michael Ovitz, who left Walt Disney Co. after

The image of huge trains-in-the-sky crisscrossing the continents with hundreds of passengers on boar

Who knows what Conrail's future may be, but its past is memorialized.Five years following th

Robert Torricelli, the new Democratic senator from New Jersey, won praise from liberals last year fo

INSURANCE AGENTSDEFEND MERGER MOVESI think it is necessary to address some assertions in you

The resignation of George Marlin after two years as executive director of the Port Authority of New

Where reform efforts fail, the market sometimes succeeds, as independent insurance agents are disc

If the business media are right, corporate executives have found a new punching bag - consultants.

Curt Flood, who died this week, was a good outfielder who compiled a .293 batting average during a 1

It's late January and tax forms are showing up in mailboxes like evil omens. But just when queasines

Welfare reform, which Bill Clinton supported, then ignored, then vetoed, then signed, willtake effec

The outcome of a current debate in Brussels over the future of the European Union's law on takeovers

The nation's passion for gambling may be dimming. The New Orleans casino is bankrupt. Riverboat reve

In Hong Kong, the sweating has started.For more than a year, Hong Kong's boosters have argue

Early this month, thousands of tiny Siberian native birds successfully made their annual journey fro

For all President Clinton's inaugural rhetoric about making the United States ''the world's indispen

The European Union has been among the most vocal supporters of post-apartheid South Africa. But its

NEW JERSEY'S COSTLYAUTO INSURANCEIt should come as no surprise to New Jersey's drivers that