Commentary

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA), the branch of the Department of Transportation responsible

It ranks not in the national psyche with the Bobbitts, Buttefuocos or the affair Gillooly-Harding, b

A few days after the recent Los Angeles earthquake, a sense of normalcy returned to the region as mo

When President Clinton submits his budget for fiscal year 1995 to Congress next Monday, he will take

OVER THE YEARS, no country has fought harder to stop trade-distorting subsidies than the United Stat

Can this be so? Can it be true that the Labor Department is emerging as one of the new power centers

President Clinton is expected to issue an executive order in the coming months reviving the Super 30

Nighttime in the warm waters of the Molucca Strait in Southeast Asia. Runninglights of ships

THE FEDERAL RESERVE'S easy money policies have done much to spur the economic recovery, and Chairman

The hottest topic on the Brussels cocktail circuit is who will replace European Commission President

FEDERAL MANDATES are a leading occupational hazard for employers. Now, Democratic leaders want to ad

However impassioned President Clinton was in his defense of his health-care plan in his State of the

Years of stories about falling bridges, collapsing pipes and electrical blackouts have convinced man

The Clinton administration, in line with its recently announced National Export Strategy, is moving

THE SUPREME COURT had transportation on its mind last week. In one busy day, the court settled dispu

Forecasts for European economic growth aren't very rosy this year - moderate expansion of 1 percent

Japan stories usually are relegated by American newspaper editors to thefinancial pages, on

THE URUGUAY ROUND trade agreement has solid support in Congress, but there's a hitch: budget rules t

The North American Free Trade Agreement is a reality. The GATT world trade deal seems certain to bec

FOR SEVEN LONG YEARS, U.S. trade negotiators pushed for a GATT agreement to reduce barriers to trade

President Clinton's State of the Union address highlighted many positive developments, such as econo

Thirteen years ago, President Ronald Reagan came to Washington as an anti- government crusader, prom

PRESIDENT CLINTON'S PULPIT-POUNDING State of the Union address was good theater, laced with heavy do

TUG, BARGE INDUSTRY HAS GOOD RECORDMany of us who are responsible for tugs, barges and the c

FRAUDULENT "get rich quick" schemes that prey on unsophisticated investors are a widespread problem

Economic growth surged during the final three months of 1993. Preliminary data suggest the gain in g

Last Friday, as members of the Liberal Democratic Party emerged from Upper House committee meetings,

THE ARCTIC COLD FRONT that froze much of the nation last week tested everyone's mettle, but none mor

While the ground shook in Los Angeles last week, a different kind of quake rocked Moscow. The resign

When I first visited this South American country in 1984, I was a 27-year-old newly minted foreign c

If ever proof were needed that the real crisis facing shipping is the quality of the people in the i

SECURITY IS ALARMINGLY LAX at nuclear weapons sites in Russia and other former Soviet republics, acc

THE BEST CURE for any disease is prevention. This month's 600,000-gallon oil barge spill in Puerto R

In most developing nations, strong economic growth, a dramatic deceleration in inflation and a boom

In 1989, Peronist populist Carlos Saul Menem was elected president of Argentina amidst 5,000 percent

In January, 'tis the season to be grumpy. And all this trendy talk about ''the information superhigh

FIFTY-FIVE YEARS ON, Winston Churchill's pithy description of Russia - "a riddle wrapped in a myster

THE TIMING couldn't have been worse for Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen's weekend stopover in Tokyo

The agency that insures U.S. foreign investment is weighing the idea of two new equity funds to gene

Eastern Europe is a different place today from what it was three or so years ago when the Iron Curta