Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LOOPHOLES AND LAPSES in the international codes on passenger vessel safety have allowed unsafe ships

Twenty years ago, Julia Child's "The French Chef" became the first national television program to be

TAX IN HASTE, repent at leisure. Last summer, California imposed an 8.25 percent sales tax o

There will be fewer political games played with the chairmanship of the International Trade Commissi

Driving into this little town at dawn on a December morning, you see the traffic mainly coming at yo

ISOLATIONIST BLATHER is dominating the political landscape. From Patrick Buchanan's myopic "America

IGOR DMITROWSKY is in the catbird's seat. Mr. Dmitrowsky is the president of Baltia Airlines

Alarmed at Japan's dwindling labor force, some business leaders and economists in Japan advocate hir

This free trade stuff is getting downright silly. In the old days, free trade meant spurring competi

AMERICAN INSOMNIACS WHO DREAM OF trading stocks in the middle of the night - when it's daylight over

The presidentially appointed commission on ocean shipping reform, which completed another round of m

GOVERNMENT HELPS WITH COUNTERTRADEIn your Nov. 13 article "Time to Support Countertrade" (Op