Commentary

When the ferry Herald of Free Enterprise embarked on its disastrous voyage in 1987 that left 188 dea

GATT PANEL ERRED ON US TUNA BANDavid Palmeter's rosy defense of the recent GATT panel decisi

Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher announced last Friday that the United States would begin imposin

There are only 77 shopping days until Christmas and 393 campaign days until the next national electi

FOR YEARS, U.S. COURTS have taken an inconsistent stand on price fixing, vigorously enforcing antitr

Like it or not, regional trading blocs are a thing of the future. Consider our proposed Nort

HOW IMPORTANT IS RAILROAD PASSENGER SERVICE in the United States? That, in effect, is one of the que

The European Community is tantalizingly close to a breakthrough in its bid to create a single curren

Geez, Joe, gimme a break. Your tongue must be half way through your cheek by now. I can't believe yo

ALLSTATE INSURANCE CO. caused quite a stir when it announced plans last month to stop writing car in

BREAKING INTO THE JAPANESE MARKET isn't easy, but it can be done. Toys "R" Us, the giant U.S. retail

ITC REPORT IGNORES FOREIGN 'JONES ACTS'The recent report of the International Trade Commissi

The U.S. Customs Service is expected to stage another massive search operation soon in its expanding

EUROPE, WHERE SOCIALISM AND SUBSIDIES are ever-present, is a difficult place to promote business com

Immigration to Israel, "Aliyah," (to descend) in Hebrew, has been part and parcel of Judaism since Z

It must have felt like this when the Middle Ages began to fade, or when the American Revolution forc

THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION showed a renewed commitment to public safety last week by recommen

'CITIZEN ACTION' GOT GAS FACTS WRONGIn alleging that the major oil companies have engaged in

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION isn't talking. U.S. and Mexican officials cut a deal last week that could en

The hope that glowed in Haitian hearts the day "President-for-Life" Jean- Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier

The International Trade Commission issued a report on Sept. 19 claiming the American consumer would

It's 9:30 a.m. on a bright Tuesday morning. Your employees are having coffee and sorting out their t

NATIVE ALASKANS SEEKING DAMAGES from Exxon Corp. for the 1989 oil spill in Prince William Sound are

CUBAN-AMERICANS MALIGNED UNFAIRLYYou ran an article by William Steif entitled "Antidote to C

Now and then, small events can illuminate something larger, much as Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over a

IT'S NO SECRET THAT JOHNNY CAN'T READ. It shouldn't be a surprise, then, that adult Johnny can't fol

MOST NATIONS HAVE LAWS to protect their companies from foreigners who sell goods at unfairlylow pric

Food aid is at the top of the U.S. list of alternatives for helping the Soviet economy or those of i

As Tom Harkin, the Iowa senator with presidential ambitions, worked the crowd at the far end of the

Wall Street's favorite indoor sport these days is bad-mouthing the American economy. The recession w

Environmentalists are fuming. A dispute settlement panel of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Tra

GIVING WORKERS TIME OFF from their jobs to attend to a newborn or a family medical problem is good p

GIANT FOREIGN CORPORATIONS typically attack the U.S. market by acquiring or absorbing American compa

SHIPPING CONTRACTS SHOULD BE SECRETI read with interest your Sept. 18 article on The Allianc

Less than two months into his tenure as president of Europe's most powerful central bank, Helmut Sch

An expected cascade of unfair trading complaints by American steel producers against foreign supplie

LAWMAKERS AND FINANCIAL GURUS have spent plenty of time analyzing theleveraged buy-out binge

Before departing Mexico City for Moscow earlier this month, Secretary of State James A. Baker raised

Vice President Quayle has gone and said the awful truth: The increasing quantity and decreasing qual

WHAT'S LEFT OF PRESIDENT BUSH'S big plans for modernizing the banking system? Increasingly little, t