Commentary

With the general election just months away, the U.K. government is engaged in a desperate race again

President Bush arrives in Japan today, not on the goodwill visit planned earlier but to open its mar

My husband and I have been dairy farmers in New York state all our lives. We work long hours, usuall

TRANSPORTATION WORKERS raised their voices like never before in 1991. A half dozen major unions elec

IT'S A START. One day after Boris Yeltsin lifted price controls in Russia, some goods long a

No pain, no gain, the old saying goes. This was a recession that we were destined to have, and if we

AN ADVISORY PANEL reviewing ocean shipping laws was jolted when its members opened the pages of a re

U.S. foreign policy toward the former Yugoslavia has been nothing short of disastrous. By taking a "

IF PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE, then at least one thing can be said for the financial industry's legislativ

When George Bush sallied forth over the New Year's holiday to battle with the great Japanesetrade dr

Tokyo must break its eerie silence on emerging plans for an East Asia Common Market. It should say "

THINGS MAY HAVE BEEN TOUGH in the oil patch in 1990, but you wouldn't know itfrom the salari

IT'S HARD TO KNOW what the Bush administration's trade policy is these days. Just before he left thi

A little stream meanders through woods and fields about 16 miles from where I live in Northern Virgi

BRITISH REVELERS welcomed the New Year Wednesday morning with more beer - and less froth - in their

Cinch up your belt. Turn down the thermostat. Pour more water in the soup. This recession will be ar

As you read these lines, the final act in the long decline of the U.S.-flag maritime industry is bei

AS HE LEFT on a two-week trip to Japan, Australia, Singapore and Korea Monday, President Bush said h

DEREGULATE TEXAS AIR TRANSPORTATIONAmerican Airlines Chairman Robert Crandall's opinion arti

AFTER YEARS OF FLUX, transportation in the United States began to take on a new shape and direction

The only thing lower than the man who waters the worker's beer is the man who drains his pension fun

There are no walls in most work areas in Japanese businesses and there is little private space. Work

The need for surgery was urgent, the threat to his survival without it considerable. The operation w

The Federal Reserve, along with the rest of the Beltway Gang, has panicked. Growth of total bank res

TIGHT BUDGETS IN MANY STATES and cities have led to a new trend in public finance: cutbacks in the f

IN CASE ANYONE GOT CARRIED AWAY with glad tidings last week, the Conference Board reminds us the eco

Administration officials are wondering what they will do with the Soviet trade agreement now that th

EVEN BEFORE HE RESIGNED as the Soviet Union's last president Wednesday, historians already had writt

THE RAPID CHANGE overtaking the former Soviet Union swept into Brussels last week, where leaders of

The recently signed transportation bill, touted by the Bush administration as manna for the starving

IN DEFENSE OF IMO TANKER STUDYYou recently published a report on an article by Sally M. Lent

The link between trade and environmental policies has become a hot issue on America's political agen

Citizens of Hong Kong, the ultimate free-trade territory, rarely have cause for protectionist sentim

The French philosopher La Rochefoucauld observed in his acerbic book ''Reflections" that self-intere

THE REAL FACTS ABOUT SHIP SAFETYYour Dec. 13 article, "Ships Meet Standards, Still Pose Fire

NO ONE SEEMS TO LIKE the proposed world trade agreement released in Geneva last week by Arthur Dunke

IRAN, KNOWN FOR MILITANT RHETORIC, is turning down the verbal volume. The new byword for Ira

After years of fruitless discussion on creating a common market, the dozen member nations of the Eng

FULL STORY ABOUT CANADA LIFECanada Life was portrayed in an incomplete manner in your July 1

The decision by British Prime Minister John Major to keep Britain out of the ''social charter" of th