Commentary

As a candidate, Bill Clinton campaigned on a platform of what are now recognized as mutually inconsi

NEEDED: AN ACTIVIST MARITIME POLICYYou continue to serve the maritime industry well by publi

FIRST BMW, now Mercedes. Reuters reported this week that Mercedes-Benz is planning to build an auto

The nation's system of gathering statistics, used to monitor such vital signs as poverty, unemployme

AS PRESIDENT CLINTON is learning, small can be beautiful when the subject is aid to Russia.

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

CALL IT THE PENA PRINCIPLE. Last week, Transportation Secretary Federico Pena jawboned North

By early June, President Clinton must determine whether to extend China's trade status foranother ye

Something touching doesn't happen often in this Washington international trade game. But it did a fe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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