Commentary

After the euphoria that engulfed the newly unified Germany last year, it was disappointing during a

ALL THIS TALK ABOUT politics moving in on the Federal Reserve Board may be a little overblown.

The Senate began the process of overhauling the nation's transportation system last month when it ap

For U.S. companies that followed the American flag to Moscow, bankruptcy or debilitating losses have

IMAGINE IF OUR APPOINTED OFFICIALS actually took the blame for the failures of their departments and

President Bush's decision to nominate Clarence Thomas, a black federal appeals court judge, to the U

REGULATION HAS GONE AWRY in the trucking industry. Rules introduced 50 years ago to protect freight

We have too much information. It's making us stupid. Did you know, just to take one recent d

BONUSES ARE COMMON in business for executives who run profitable companies. No one, of course, would

FOREIGN CREW ISSUE MUST BE DEBATEDIn his July 3rd "Publisher's Notebook," Don Becker put his

In the nick of time, the Federal Reserve came riding through the pass to bail the United States out

IN DIVORCE CASES, custody battles often become a substitute for unresolved disputes over unhappy rel

In much of the world, anxious politicians worry about the explosive potential of rising domestic une

Hypocrisy and suspicion will pervade the atmosphere at a Euro-Japanese summit later this month.<

JUST AS THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY douses one of Yugoslavia's ethnic fires, another erupts elsewhere in

When the Delaware & Hudson Railway filed for bankruptcy protection in 1988, many rail experts predic

A commercial success from its opening, the Panama Canal is now considered by many maritime experts t

''YANKEE GO HOME" has been the prevalent refrain among Europeans, particularly since the end of the

This week begins a crucial test for U.S. negotiators on a critical international steel agreement.

An increasing number of American politicians, businessmen and academics believe that bilateral press

DELIVERING PACKAGES OVERNIGHT in California is getting easier for air express companies. A f

Good advocates paint glorious pictures. When they intervene for you with the powerful, they add an e

HOPES FOR A RAPPROCHEMENT between North and South Korea have been dampened by a recent disagreement

NUCLEAR POWER - and the safety of the plants that produce it - strikes an emotional chord for many

DON'T FALL FOR EMPTY PROMISES TO LABORBacking both a U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement and wo

A year after a constitutional reform package collapsed amid bitter feuding, Canada remains a country

Cuba is gradually acquiring Western technology that could help ensure the safe operation of its Sovi

STATES HAVE REPAIRED some of their worst highways during the last five years, but government is stil

A NEW YORK STATE BUDGET AGREEMENT hangs in the balance while Governor Mario M. Cuomo and state legis

This year's seven-power economic summit, to be held in London July 15-17, threatens to make last yea

America is losing ground. This is the disturbing conclusion to emerge from a remarkable inquiry by t

''Planning" is a dirty word in Washington. It's such a taboo that cadres of bureaucrats in the Bush

The picture splashed across Britain's prestigious Sunday Times newspaper showed huge piles of garbag

The talk of the town, indeed, of much of the world these days is the Harvard- Yavlinsky "Grand Barga

IMAGINE VISITING THE LOAN OFFICER at your local bank to secure funds for a new home or car. After de

'COST OF PROTECTION' FROM QUOTAS INFLATEDIn "Real Victims of Textile Quotas," (Opinion, June

AS NEGOTIATORS STRUGGLE to revive the Uruguay Round of world trade talks, hopeful signs are emerging

What's the secret of survival of a health system that for years has been diagnosed and denounced as

INSIDERS ARE SAYING that John Macomber, the Export-Import Bank chairman, is likely to be the next Se

A FUNNY THING happened in Luxembourg last week: Finance ministers from the 12 European Community mem