Commentary

UNLIMITED LIABILITY AND THE P&I CLUBSI compliment the U.S. Coast Guard commandant, Admiral J

DOCTORS, HOSPITALS AND DRUGMAKERS have a good thing going in the United States: Most of their custom

IT'S NO SECRET that illegal drugs are a big part of the economies of some South American countries,

On Monday, the world witnessed the first open market in environmental quality. The Chicago Board of

Optimistic assessments of the Japanese economy by the country's political leaders and government off

The good news is that pretax operating profits soared at an annual rate of 77 percent in the fourth

IT WAS INEVITABLE, of course, that the Clinton administration eventually would be forced to defend t

The chronic inability of the federal government to balance its books has resulted in a debt that top

THERE MAY BE Americans who like being interrupted at home by aggressive telephone salespeople; we ju

The political crisis in Russia affords the European Community another opportunity to find a foreign

RIGHTING THE BALANCE ON GAMBLING CRUISESI read with great interest your March 22 editorial o

BACK IN 1971, Steven Spielberg directed a nightmarish film in which a driverless 18-wheeler prowled

THE ECONOMY is doing just fine, thank you, according to President Clinton's own Commerce Department.

Another government "insurance" program is in financial trouble. In the sad tradition of depo

Always there is Russia's past that arises and smites our swollen hopes. That authoritarian strain, t

A clash may be brewing between Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena and Rep. Norman Y. Mineta,

SAFETY ISN'T THE ISSUE FOR CHARTERERSI read with interest and concern your March 4 article,

AS THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION'S new labor commission gets down to work, the Railway Labor Act should

LABOR UNIONS have stepped up to claim the spoils of their campaign support for Bill Clinton. The adm

As President Bill Clinton struggles to get a U.S. energy tax enacted, he will need all the allies he

Businesses have begun moving back into the World Trade Center following the Feb. 26 explosion of a p

REACHING FOR A CUSTOMS DEALRemote entry filing will not be deleted from the Customs Moderniz

One of this city's landmarks is the inscription on the National Archives building that says, "The pa

A critical problem facing the oil industry is that of liability for pollutionfrom spills. A

FIGHTING FOR CUSTOMERS in foreign markets is the essence of global competition. Governments distort

BRITISH AIRWAYS notwithstanding, much of Europe's airline industry is a jumble of high cost, state-o

Beneath at least half of U.S. oil tank farms lie major pools of leaked oil. These mini "stra

THE CLINTON ECONOMIC BANDWAGON, having rolled through the House, now is lumbering through the Senate

The United States Congress took a first, fateful step toward stagflation last week. The House of Rep

Shigeki Matsuura, a member of the Japan's Junior Civil Servants Union, marches through Tokyo's centr

As if its economic transition weren't difficult enough, Russia now finds itself in the midst of a co

The case of Central Europe may give substance to the laggard's maxim that if you ignore a problem lo

BORIS YELTSIN saved Russian democracy 18 months ago when he climbed atop a Soviet tank to end a hard

Good health to Hillary Clinton in her efforts to reform the nation's health- care system. Quagmire i

FRENCH VOTERS, soured by prolonged recession, high unemployment and constant strikes and demonstrati

DON'T REMOVE GSP FROM EL SALVADORI am writing to clarify some important issues in Douglas W.

NOT ALL THE NEWS from Russia and Eastern Europe is of political struggles and setbacks. Last week, R

Instead of sending Commerce Secretary Ronald Brown and U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor to Me

CONGRESS IS A PLACE OF EXTREMES, and two maritime bills now under review - one much-needed, the othe

Congress is not only waiting for President Clinton to finish naming top officials in his administrat