Commentary

WE'VE SEEN PLANS for Soviet economic reform come and go. The most promising proposal, the "500-Day

Official Washington suddenly has awakened to the fact that the Treasury deficit this year will be f

WHEN THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN discuss their trade imbalance, U.S. officials complain of chummy Ja

Jacques Delors is arguably the most intriguing man in Europe. To be sure, Europe is a very large pl

DELIVERING MAIL ON TIME is a constant challenge for the Postal Service. To help meet that goal, the

MEXICAN PRESIDENT Carlos Salinas isn't usually considered one of the world's top environmentalists.

On April 15th a new international organization made its debut. The European Bank for Reconstruction

LEAHY BILL WEAKENS FOOD SAFETYYour article "Pesticide Export Issue Heats Up in Congress" (Ap

THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION is expected to recommend this week that Congress scrap the law r

The Department of Defense has been widely praised for its role in mobilizing men and materiel for Op

THE GREAT DEBATE over President Bush's request for an extension of his fast- track trade negotiating

The American Medical Association fired its big guns, set off its bells and whistles, turned out its

THE FINGER OF BLAME for soaring health care costs always points to doctors' high malpractice insuran

PROVIDING THE SOVIET UNION WITH CREDITS to buy food, Sen. Bill Bradley said Wednesday, would make th

IT'S NOT ALL THAT OFTEN that industries clamor for federal regulation. But food processors want the

How quickly things change. A mere five years ago, the United States was preoccupied with the grandeu

An information gap exists between the United States and Japan. It is something more profound than ju

The premise of airline deregulation was that competition could be relied on to maintain adequate ser

The idea that the current recession would go away quickly has left sooner than the recession itself.

CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORP. dominates railroad transportation in the Northeast, a sometimes uncomfortabl

AFTER MONTHS OF HEATED debate, two congressional committees paved the way Tuesday for thestart of fr

INTERMODAL FLEXIBILITY FOR TRANSPORTATIONYour editorial, "One Step Backward" (May 6) correct

Polish President Lech Walesa frequently voices frustration that the West is slow in welcoming Poland

With gunfire stilled in the Persian Gulf, a tiny fleet of four Japanese wooden-hulled minesweepers a

THE IDEA OF ACCEPTING TURKEY into the European Community has been dismissed as premature and unreali

As the nation's economic recovery takes shape this summer, significant changes in the landscape are

The "doctor glut," one of those perennial non-problems of American society, is in the news again, wi

MAYBE IT'S JUST BLUSTER, but Japanese business leaders say they won't bend to U.S. demands for trade

In its haste to inject more pricing competition into the trucking industry, the Interstate Commerce

THAI TEXTILES STORY MISSES THE POINTYour report "Thailand Uses a Loophole to Boost Its Texti

Last Friday marked the 10th year anniversary of French President Francois Mitterrand's rise to power

COMPETITION IS INCREASING in almost every industry, even in those traditionally viewed as monopolies

Business groups hope Congress will take some additional steps this year to help U.S. industry compet

U.S. CONSUMERS COULD SAVE an estimated $20 billion this year, if the House follows the Senate's lead

REP. SAM GIBBONS IS FED UP with foreign governments that subsidize their commercial shipbuilders, an

The Gulf War created a new lexicon for describing the geopolitical fallout in the Middle East. Comme

Forgotten in the uproar over the the proposed U.S.-Canada-Mexico talks for a North American free tra

Washington lawyers are gearing up for a decade of full employment. The issue is custom-made for them

UNITED PARCEL SERVICE is not the first company to transfer its corporate headquarters from the pricy

The growing debate over the proposed U.S.-Mexico free trade accord is only the beginning. The real