Commentary

Why are so many scientists gloomy these days? Because they have finally realized that the go-go days

THE NEW ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL for antitrust, Anne K. Bingaman, has strong views on competition

THE COFFEE CARTEL is back - sort of. Discouraged by the prospects of reviving a worldwide ag

Now that Japan has a new government, composed of splinter groups of the Liberal Democratic Party, ho

Despite its current difficulties with the Maastricht unification treaty, the European Community is p

JAPAN'S NEW COALITION GOVERNMENT may be more forward-looking than critics suggest. Elsewhere

Is it cause for excitement or despair when an entrepreneur has a new (or rediscovered) product for w

PREDATORY PRICING CHARGES, like those beaten back by American Airlines in a Texas courtroom this wee

VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE'S government review panel has attacked some of the maritime industry's most c

After assembling a ruling coalition following his majority victory in June's popular vote, Gonzolo S

REFLAGGING US SHIPS: ANSWERING THE CRITICSThe announced reflagging of some U.S. ships by Sea

THE CLEAR LESSON from the bruising battle over President Clinton's budget is that most voters still

In the last week of July, a familiar financial melodrama played out on the world stage. A noble curr

The U.S. economy stands at a great divide. For 20 years, roughly 1970 to 1990, America enjoyed job g

TO ITS CREDIT, the Clinton administration is renewing efforts to charge Western ranchers fairer rate

Talk to anyone in the maritime business today and the discussion quickly turns to one subject: the a

CONTROLLING POLLUTION is nothing new; preventing it is. That's what the printing industry, Great Lak

With the debate over federal spending likely to continue raging in Congress, some spending cuts that

Latin American and Caribbean airlines are up in arms as U.S. airlines add capacity between their cou

FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY AND A HALF, the strife-torn states of Central America have talked of forming

British Prime Minister John Major has enjoyed a brief respite over the past week as his beleaguered

P&I CLUB INSURANCE SYSTEM WORKS WELLYour August 3rd editorial, "Making Spillers Pay"

Just a year ago, the Mexican government announced plans to convert Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) from

There's one American product that continues to expand its sales as the world's favorite ina market o

FRUSTRATED BY THEIR OWN FAILURE to reform U.S. maritime policy, lawmakers have resorted toa kind of

DRINKING AND DRIVING is a dangerous practice, but some new facts from highway safety researchers sho

The Clinton administration might not send to Congress legislation implementing the North American fr

The $3 billion in Russian aid announced at the Tokyo economic summit last month is an important and

THIRTEEN YEARS after trucking was largely deregulated, the Interstate CommerceCommission has

GERMANY'S "green dot" recycling program is being overwhelmed by its own early success. In th

Bill Clinton has a flaw that certainly will come back to haunt him if he does not seek to correct it

Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary has introduced a welcome note of realism into the administration's en

According to Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-Ohio, a new Labor Department jobs"dictionary" defines as

With the deep financial troubles plaguing U.S. airlines, it seems implausible that the Department of

TIME TO SAVE US MERCHANT MARINEThe recent efforts of so many people in the maritime industry

THE COLLAPSE this week of the European Community's system of fixed but adjustable exchangerates is a

GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONS produce reports that are often ignored by policy- makers. But James Landry, w

News organizations have been seized with a sudden nostalgia for the 1960s, unhappy as those years we

For those who believe that the time has come to relax, if not eliminate, export controls on the sale

IT'S GOING TO BE expensive, but the armed forces finally will clean up the soil and water pollution