Commentary

The prospects for an improvement in Soviet-Japanese relations are not necessarily brighter in the wa

SPEED KILLS, but only in some states, it seems. A new study by the University of Maryland, c

BORIS YELTSIN'S HONEYMOON won't last. Flush with power from crushing last week's coup, Mr. Yeltsin,

'MIXED CREWING' DESERVES REVIEWEarlier this week a journalist unfamiliar with maritime matte

The anti-communist revolutions in the fall of 1989 sent much of central and eastern Europe on an irr

Approval for the Soviet Union's associate membership in the World Bank, which entitles it only to te

EVERY OCCUPATION HAS ITS HAZARDS and most of them are insurable. Medical malpractice is just one exa

U.S. TRADE NEGOTIATORS have been struggling for years to open the Japanese market to foreign goods a

With increasing regularity, blacks, women and other Americans have felt the sting of bias by public

The recent bankruptcy reorganization announcements by Pan Am, TWA and America West bring to a close

POLITICALLY, THIS WEEK'S FAILED COUP changed everything in the Soviet Union. Economically, it change

VESSEL SHARING SHREWD FOR SHIPPING"Great spirits have always encountered violent opp

The idea of forming a U.S. industrial policy has gained increasing appeal among Americans. If the go

WHEN PRESIDENT BUSH called on state governors last weekend to help convince European leaders of the

Pardon me, boy, is this the aggravation station? Yeah, yeah. Track 29, and here's the company line:<

It's probably a rare day when there isn't at least one coup under way somewhere in the world, but th

The Bush administration released a comprehensive program to address national energy needs in the spr

AMERICA CAN MAKE A SHIPPING COMEBACKThe article about the J.A. Jones Construction Co.'s plan

BAD NEWS AND THE FEDERAL BUDGET go hand in hand. One month after the White House predicted a record

FIRST UNITED AIRLINES, then American, now Delta. Three U.S. airlines best known for their domestic s

As slippery slopes go, the American Technology Pre-eminence Act ranks with U.S. military advice to S

The geyser of red ink spurting out of the U.S. Treasury will soar to a record $279 billion in the fi

The race for the world's electric car market is off and running and most of the odds makers are bett

LAST WEEK'S DECISION by Germany's Bundesbank to raise two key interest rates came as no surprise. Le

Sweden is sailing into uncharted waters. Following the collapse of communism in Eastern Euro

SOVIET POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC REFORM will survive the ouster of Mikhail Gorbachev. Too much has happ

With every jump in hospital bills, every hike in health insurance premiums, every confounded complic

Before Mexico, Canada and the United States began free-trade negotiations in June, the parties had a

What's all the fuss about temperatures falling in the tropics in the wake of the early June eruption

Partisan politics still seem to plague the International Trade Commission. For more than a y

Small is beautiful, wrote E.F. Schumacher so long, long ago. Unfortunately, economies do not run on

ASSET STRIPPERS are having a field day in the trucking business. They're buying ailing companies on

IS THERE NO END to the variety of industries in which the United States trails other countries? Amer

A BILL EXTENDING UNEMPLOYMENT benefits during a national employment crisis will become law on Saturd

HELP US TEXTILE INDUSTRY SURVIVEThe Multi-Fibre Arrangement, the international mecha

The Arab boycott of Israel has lasted longer than any economic sanction in modern history. T

From the way the U.S. government spends its research money, you'd never realize the Cold War is over

Lynn Martin isn't going to put much of a nick in the glass ceiling that keeps well-qualified women a

PROTECTING VALUABLE WETLANDS from development is good for the environment and the economy; protectin

Justice for the prominent raises questions of ethics in most countries and Argentina is no exception