Commentary

ARTICLES CONFUSED RATE MATTERSI am writing to clarify the Military Sealift Command's (MSC) p

THE HIGH HOPES for European union, forged last December in Maastricht, have given way to a sober mor

TIMES HAVE BEEN TOUGH in the former Soviet Union the last few years, but thathasn't quelled

With President Bush getting ready to submit the North American free-trade agreement (Nafta) to Congr

Who is to blame for the recent currency crisis on European foreign exchange markets? While e

At a Harvard teching hospital in Boston, the charge for an implantable cardiac defibrillator - a pac

BEIJING IS TRYING to restore order to China's fledgling stock exchanges, which have been in chaos fo

Scientists shuddered when Lyndon Johnson declared his interest in "what science could do for grandma

Prospects for enactment of a new export control law this year are brightening again. Months

HOW MUCH DRUG TESTING IS ENOUGH? Probably less than the Transportation Department requires now. More

Anyone who ships goods through U.S. ports or on U.S. waterways should be interested in legislation n

WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY'S Exchange Rate Mechanism now in tatters, Germany's powerful Bundesbank

It says right here in The Wall Street Journal that neither George Bush nor Bill Clinton can add, tha

With private capital churning through Latin American markets at a rapid pace, economic stability in

DUBAI TRADE SHOW WAS A SUCCESSWe read with interest your article, "Kuwait Back in Business"

RADIOACTIVE WASTE is a gruesome legacy of the Cold War. In plants and laboratories across the countr

The commodity known as sugar has been in world surplus for decades. This year an extra 3 million met

Bill Clinton's proposal to raise revenue from foreign companies in the United States by tightening t

UNDER SENSIBLE NEW RULES adopted this week, federal regulators will use a bank's capital reserves as

Presidential campaigns are rarely the place to look for ideas that combine farsightedness and practi

The Chinese Communist Party once co-opted women by promising that equality would follow automaticall

CHALK ONE UP FOR COMMON SENSE. The Energy Department no longer plans to spend $6 billion on a new pl

GEORGE BUSH AND BILL CLINTON have proposed dramatically different health careplans, but they

The dramatic realignment of European currencies last weekend was only the latest in a long sequence

GERMANY'S CENTRAL BANK, which has earned its spurs as an inflation fighter, took a necessary step ba

The last three years marked one of the longest periods of slow growth for the U.S. economy in the po

The British are famous for their sense of humor, but surely worrying about a drought in this rain-so

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION should move quickly to approve the new commercial alliance between Northwest

Some labor leaders are opposing the North American free-trade agreementbecause they believe

SHIP LINES REBUT SHIPBUILDERS' CLAIMSWe are appalled by the ongoing efforts of the S

With the announced retirements of the top two Democrats on the House Public Works and Transportation

THE ECONOMY HAS BEEN RAINING relentlessly on George Bush's parade. Last week brought more gloomy new

As United Nations inspectors again risk their lives to retrieve sensitive documents pertaining to Ir

SIMPLIFYING THE TAX CODE is a perennial goal of the good-government crowd. The problem, of course, i

HONG KONG, an intermediate stop for many exporters moving goods between China and the United States,

George Wallace is remembered for many things, some good, some bad. But of all the stridencies that e

On Labor Day the National Insurance Consumer Organization (NICO) held a press conference, calling fo

The French go to the polls on Sept. 20 to vote on the European Community's Maastricht treaty, thereb

DECLINING WAGES for U.S. workers is fast becoming a central issue in the presidential campaign. Real

The North American free-trade agreement is not the first such pact with Mexico to encounter stiff op