Commentary

Finland has scarcely lived a moment of its life in security. Practically from the moment settlers ar

The long tradition of the Swiss as "the reluctant Europeans" is changing, and mostly due to events b

MEDDLESOME BUREAUCRATS are proposing a dangerous change in U.S. aviation policy. Lawyers at the Depa

The United States and over 20 other nations resume talks this week in Paris on proposals fora new pa

As the scandal around the Bank of Credit and Commerce International widens, it is temptingto believe

Every few years, American medical researchers take a look at the destructive malaria epidemic that a

WE COULDN'T RESIST THIS ONE. It seems that a British company called Bodywise has discovered that a p

WORKERS AT THE BURLINGTON NORTHERN Railroad accepted management's proposal last week for smaller cre

One reason the economy is in so much trouble is that too many people here have a stake in past mista

It has long been an article of faith in the world of international trade that anything that restrict

Poland's parliamentary elections on Sunday come at a time when paranoia over privatization seems to

POLAND'S PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS this weekend are shaping up as a referendum on the economic reforms

EUROPE HAS RAISED THE ANTE in a new global game: Who has the largest trading bloc? It is a contest t

PUNITIVE DAMAGES can be an effective tool for punishing corporate wrongdoers. They can also be an af

Texas Instruments, the Dallas-based semiconductor and electronics company, won a preliminary victory

EVEN AS YUGOSLAVIA and the Soviet Union disintegrate, other long-parted nations are coming closer to

FDA NEEDS MORE PEOPLE TO DO ITS JOBWe have been following with some amusement your articles

The U.S. laws against dumping foreign products in this country are both one of the oldest attempts t

Leo Abruzzese, the chap who taps out most of this newspaper's editorials, did a beauty three weeks a

Political strategists in the Bush administration are running around frantically trying to jump-start

RARELY HAS A TRAGEDY prompted such quick action from Congress. On Aug. 27, few on Capitol Hill thoug

The recent scandals involving the U.S. operations of Luxembourg-based Bank of Credit and Commerce In

FORD PROTESTS SHIPPING COLUMNIt is with profound regret that I strenuously protest the ad ho

Any Western economic package for the former Soviet Union should include a means for promoting direct

The highly charged debate over the future of Britain's National Health Service could prove the downf

THE DOOR WAS OPENED THIS MONTH for world trade negotiators - finally - to end five years of complex

IT SEEMS FRANCE has its own version of Richard Gephardt. Like the Democratic representative from Mis

AFTER MORE THAN TWO YEARS of negotiations, an international agreement to end government shipbuilding

America's publishers of personal computer software are among the country's most internationally comp

A carefully monitored High-Tech Bungle Index should be added to the various conventional measures of

The American maritime industry is facing another wave of threats to the Jones Act and its restrictio

The following is an excerpt from an address by Robert L. Crandall, chairman and presidentof American

THE SENATE VOTE ON WEDNESDAY WAS CLOSE, but President Bush's veto of a bill extending jobless benefi

EUROPE'S PROTECTIONIST FARM POLICIES, which have knotted world trade talks, extend well beyond its b

All the discussion and debate over the upcoming North American Free-Trade Agreement and its various

The recent revelations about the Central Intelligence Agency prove only that the agency, itschampion

IMPORTER CRITICIZES SHORTCOMINGS AT FDAYour recent front page article "Forwarders Decry Insp

As U.S. and Mexican negotiators prepare to meet in Zacatecas on Oct. 26 to work out a free-trade agr

IT'S A WONDER FEDERAL EXPRESS CORP. can find time to deliver packages. The air express company spend

SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES is playing hardball in San Francisco. The rail company is threatening to susp