Commentary

As the world trade talks struggle to a conclusion this month in Geneva, new voices have emerged with

In New York City, the three most popular words are "excuse me" and "next." You say "excuse m

Innovation in new fields often comes from small start-up companies rather than large corporations. B

BA CODE-SHARING SHOULD BE LIMITEDIn response to the opinion article by Dick Mathias and Fran

You thought 1993 was a big year for trade on Capitol Hill? Wait till next year. All Congress

MICHIGAN'S HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES passed a so-called trucking deregulation bill Tuesday.In fact, i

First the big freebies from drug companies were ruled out of bounds for doctors, thus eliminating th

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY changed its name to the European Union in November, but it was the same old F

Environmentalists are in the trade arena to stay. The precedent was set in crafting a North American

More than anything, Wall Street wants to believe that low inflation is here to stay. The New York Ti

NO ONE IS POPPING CHAMPAGNE CORKS, but the economic forecast is improving by the day. Wholesale buye

THE FEDERAL REGISTER, America's bureaucratic bible, is a repository of mangled English. But the Brit

For at least two years, the National Cancer Institute has been telling Americans to eat five serving

"Dismayed but not particularly surprised" probably best sums up the mood of Britain's shipowners aft

It may be easier to understand how an airplane flies than how an airline markets its service.

RUSSIA'S political future will be influenced heavily by Sunday's parliamentary elections. But the re

EUROPEAN INDUSTRIALISTS are proposing some sensible solutions for the continent's high unemployment.

The No. 2 computer corporation lays off 5,000 workers. The leader of "the big three" automakers down

The Clinton administration's export control bureaucracy - chiefly the State, Defense and Commerce de

Is President Clinton trying to have it both ways? Can he simultaneously be a friend of labor and of

A GATT WORLD TRADE deal is at hand. After seven years of slow torture, the outline of a final plan t

IF THE GOVERNMENT orders companies and workers to pay specified sums of money to politically appoint

LYING TO A JUDGE is a serious offense, but should a worker lose his federal labor rights because of

Forty-eight hours after proclaiming that creation of a North American trade bloc, as outlined in the

Interactive, Shminteractive. No, no Luddism here. Or is it Ludditism? Who knows? Turns out t

END THE MARITIME SUBSIDIESYour Washington bureau chief, Tom Connors, may be right that the 3

A RUSSIAN ELECTORAL COMMISSION cleared the way Wednesday for the nation's Communist Party toparticip

THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY is taking some much-needed steps to streamline its maze of regul

Social Security is the Molotov cocktail of the 1990s. Open a conversationalwindow, toss it i

America's trade deficit with Japan alarms economists and angers politicians. During the first half o

With the North American Free Trade Agreement now past the Congress, a new debate begins: How can the

INDEPENDENT TRUCKERS struck the country last month, frustrated and angry over rising fuel prices. Bu

THE TRANSPORTATION Research Board, which provides a scientific and technical forum for discussing tr

The American economy is at a turning point, on its way to reclaiming its historical role as the most

Despite President Clinton's easier-than-expected victory in the fight over the North American Free T

It's a sight even this newspaper, with its avid interest in floating objects, would have found amazi

The North American Free Trade Agreement is facing yet another peril, this timefrom Canada's

The same business groups that unanimously supported the North American Free Trade Agreement are thre

LAST WEEK'S SHOWDOWN between American Airlines and its flight attendants left many holiday travelers

It's more than a little ironic that as Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan engages in a hammer a