Commentary

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER JOHN MAJOR wanted it known that his meeting with Chinese Premier LiPeng this

FILING RATES WITH THE GOVERNMENT is one of the hallmarks of maritime regulation. But does rate filin

Cancel the funeral. Contrary to lugubrious reports, science in America is not expiring from financia

Waste management has become both a major environmental issue and a trade policy predicament. One cou

Horror stories from luckless travelers about flight delays and long lines at Tokyo's Narita and Osak

In responding to the gripping events in the Soviet Union, the European Community has done well to di

JAPAN'S IMAGE as a mercantilist nation is only reinforced by the latest trade figures. The Japanese

TEAMSTERS, LONGSHOREMEN, locomotive engineers the names fairly ring with the sound of militant unio

AUTO IMPORTS STORY MISSING SOME FACTSWe have read your article, "In the Land of the

On the subject of political parties, humorist Will Rogers once stated: "I belong to no organized par

No one is weeping today for the death of communism or totalitarianism in the Soviet Union, least of

Twenty West African countries have launched a collective bid to confront the multibillion-dollar glo

"HOW CAN THERE BE TALK of building communism when the revisionist . . . cliques are leading the Sovi

In these heady, revolutionary times, Russian President Boris Yeltsin is emerging as a Latin-style st

TRASH IS BIG BUSINESS. For the companies that treat and transport it, municipal solid waste - paper,

There is not much here now: a stone slab, the rusted cover of what may have been a cistern, two seve

The collapse of the Iron Curtain has brought home the dismal failure of economic central planning. I

FINES FOR OIL SPILLS EXCEED CRIMES' COSTSYour article "Phillips to Pay $4 Million to Settle

THE "NIMBY" SYNDROME - Not in My Back Yard - is alive and well in Santa Barbara, Calif. Residents of

At least 32 million Americans - 12 million of whom are children - have no health insurance. One out

ACROSS THE U.S. FINANCIAL SPECTRUM, regulators are devising ways to avoid a repeat of the big insolv

Now for the business management lessons we can learn from last week's failed Soviet coup. Yo

Just before it went into summer recess last month, the Senate did a startling thing. It approved a c

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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