Commentary

ANYONE WHO EXPECTED a quick end to the world trade talks after November's U.S.-European farm deal ha

Maritime and longshore unions shortly may help revive one of the issues that complicated last year's

AT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT, the 12-nation European Community officially turns into a single market, poised

The high quality of health care in the United States is indisputable. But the rapid and dramatic inc

A hundred years ago a debate raged in England over trade and industrial policy. Great Britain, then

President-elect Bill Clinton completed his cabinet in time to meet his Christmas deadline and few ar

IT COULD BE months before the words "robust" and "economy" are used in the same breath. Still, as th

I just heard yesterday. A close college friend, an attorney, lost his job - his third one in two yea

A Mainland Chinese acquaintance working in Hong Kong phoned me on Christmas eve. "What is yo

COMMUNICATIONS GIANTS in the cable television and telephone industries are having trouble communicat

WHEN 45-YEAR-OLD Federico Pena becomes transportation secretary next month, he'll discover an unnerv

Solid expansion in the United States - powered by gains in consumer spending, business investment, h

Technically, the United States has been in an economic recovery for more than a year and a half. Aft

BRITAIN SUPPORTS 'OPEN SKIES'In your Dec. 23 editorial ("Protectionism Triumphant," Page 6A)

Pressure is growing on the British government to tear up its plans for privatizing British Rail and

TEN YEARS AND $4 BILLION into its search for a permanent storage site for civilian nuclear waste, th

U.S. TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES are among the very best in the world - and the rest of the world i

Although President-elect Clinton plans to focus on domestic issues early in his administration, he i

Holidays are said to be a time of great awe and wonder. That's true. I wonder about many things now

The North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) can help to build an economic bridge between the Uni

BILL CLINTON and George Bush have few things in common, but they might agree on this: When it comes

THERE'S STILL A CHANCE British Airways could join forces with USAir Group, even though its equity de

For decades, when the industrialized nations sneezed, developing Asia caught a cold. But over the pa

ECONOMIC INDICATORS have been mixed and confusing all year, and the year-end figures are no differen

President-elect Clinton got elected on domestic issues. "It's the economy, stupid," was the campaign

SLOWLY AND TENTATIVELY, Bill Clinton is zeroing in on a fundamental cause of skyrocketing health car

Forget IBM's travails, for the moment. The newest flap at the Harvard Business Review - over its pul

TUESDAY'S COLLAPSE of the proposed British Airways-USAir deal robs both nations of the chance to dis

Imagine addressing your boss not by name but by title. "Good morning, president," you might say, or

The American economy will pass "go" next week at a good clip. Output of goods and services, inflatio

Can anyone credibly endorse our current federal income tax system? If not, then why do we still have

The seemingly endless barrage of steel trade suits filed by the American steel industry will not sol

THE U.S. TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT broke new ground this fall when it offered a detailed proposal fo

Once again the European Commission is under siege. The efforts of the commission, the Europe

IF YOU DISCOVERED a doctor had cheated on a medical exam, would you let him operate on you? Most peo

Speculation continues on who President-elect Clinton will select to be his U.S. trade representative

Independence is a difficult concept for Central Asia's former Soviet republics. Strugglingto define

The modern cinema often portrays the early 20th century as the gilded age of romance and comfortable

GERMANY'S PARLIAMENT, disgusted with rising deficits in the national health insurance system, took m

An influential think tank here is pushing a plan for three separate federal budgets that evokes memo