Commentary

BOEING AND MCDONNELL DOUGLAS make fine airplanes, and it was encouraging to see them win a new $6 bi

Last Friday President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa met at the White House and t

The birds do it, the bees do it, why don't we do it - let's bash Japan. Hey, what's all the

THE FEDERAL SUPERFUND program, which aims to clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites, has been like

BETTER COOPERATION FOR AIR CARGOAir carriers and freight forwarders must work togeth

Four years ago, conservative Japanese political maverick Shintaro Ishihara and Sony Chairman Akio Mo

SOMETHING SMELLS along the French coasts, where commercial fishermen have been staging violent strik

A portrait of changing Mexico: Capital is flowing into the country as its foreign-trained leaders ab

This year could be the year America's health-care system is dramatically reformed, but it is more li

The failure of trade talks last week between President Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro

THE UNITED STATES threatens trade wars about as often as the seasons change. Japan is in the cross-h

TRANSIT STUDIES ARE MISLEADINGNothing makes a clearer case for the Federal Transit Administr

Whether by bad luck or poor judgment, the British government is being torn apart by scandal after sc

THE FIRST U.S. INVESTMENT MISSION to South Africa arrives in Johannesburg this weekend amid new poli

When you buy a new computer or fax machine to do work at home, you expect it to let you write faster

In his campaign for his health-care reform plan, President Clinton has said repeatedly the people ar

DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE has never been a major problem in the transportation industries. No commercia

The Clinton administration is expected to brief Congress this week on its long-awaited proposals for

If it were any other deadly indoor pollution that is costing us thousands of lives and billions of d

LIFE'S A BEACH for many Greeks, who like to dance and drink til dawn even if the revelry leaves them

President Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Hosokawa meet today to address economic issues under t

Mired in an economic slump, Germany today is focused on one overarching question: When will the rece

AFTER NEARLY TWO PARALYZING WEEKS, the Canadian government has ordered striking longshoremenon the c

It wasn't a rebel uprising like the one that rocked the south of Mexico on New Year's Day and sent s

THE BANANA TRADE is a slippery business in Europe, which still limits importsfrom Latin Amer

THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAIDThe Jan. 20 letter by Martin Foley of the National Motor Freig

I probably would not be writing this column if: 1. I had not covered federal budgets through

When American Airlines' flight attendants struck the company in November, President Clinton personal

SELDOM has a routine state visit sparked as much ill will from the host as tomorrow's appearance in

Last month, the top civil servant at Japan's Ministry of Finance paid a call on the head of the Soci

BLAME IS NEVER IN SHORT SUPPLY in a strike, and this week's UPS-Teamsters flare-up was no exception.

After months of dithering, Federal Reserve officials finally decided last week to allow their target

President Clinton is pursuing an industrial policy whose goal is to boost employment by subsidizing

FOURTEEN YEARS of ferocious litigation between rival manufacturers Brother Industries and Smith Coro

FISCAL RESTRAINT is a virtue Bill Clinton would just as soon not embrace. He came to office promisin

The rush is on. By lifting the 19-year-old trade embargo against Vietnam, the Clinton administration

Reading the English press and listening to the British government over the past week would give one

LET'S SEE THE RECORDS OF TAA MEMBERSAs a non-vessel-operating common carrier, I have been fo

FEDERAL SPENDING on transportation is, by any measure, a small part of the government's budget. Of t

A couple of years ago, President Clinton's old friend from Oxford, Labor Secretary Robert Reich, wro