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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Puerto Rico has become a favorite, but undeserving target of U.S. congressmen and labor interests lo

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

VICE PRESIDENT DAN QUAYLE has been ridiculed plenty for his lack of experience and blundering speech

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

The United States, it is said, has 5 percent of the world's population and 6 percent of the world's

PROCTER & GAMBLE CO. and Cincinnati law enforcement officials have teamed up to quash free speech an

COLUMBIA GAS SYSTEM'S DESCENT into bankruptcy court is the latest chapter in a tale of woe stretchin

Does the United States need help from overseas to pull out of its ninth postwar recession? Yes, and

Negotiations for a Multilateral Steel Agreement reached an impasse in Geneva last month and prospect

John Maynard Keynes built his economic model on the premise that government is the pure and disinter

REBUILDING THE SOVIET UNION'S ailing oil industry will be a critical part of its economic recovery.

The nomadic Somalis have 45 separate names for the camel because of the dromedary's crucial role in

NEWS OF DEPOSITOR PANIC IN HONG KONG brings to mind a famous photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson fea

The Bundesbank, Europe's most powerful central bank, returns to work on Thursday and if recent indic

Attorney General Dick Thornburgh's rumored resignation to run for the Senate seat left vacant by the

The most significant event now affecting the lives of railroad employees occurred in early January 1

AIRLINES FROM 96 COUNTRIES fly into the United States every week, but not all of them meet internati

Despite all the talk of reducing working hours, Japan's long workday is getting even longer. Treason

SPACE CHARTERING A GOOD OPTIONRegarding your article, "Shipping Lines Without Ships Seen Les