Commentary

The president's annual budget message, a major event on the local political and economic calendar in

EUROPE'S AIRLINES have not been immune to the rising fuel prices, reduced travel and suspect managem

THE BUDGET AX has struck again and Medicare, the government health insurance program for the elderly

For more than four decades, Washington has cherished a favorite myth that Japan's Fair Trade Commiss

Corporate profits crashed in the fourth quarter of 1990. According to preliminary, unpublished estim

''Depend on it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, itconcentrates his

A recent ruling by the International Trade Commission has quietly redefined the terms of global comp

LIKE A NEW NOVEL FROM a prize-winning author, the administration's annual budget is always a best-se

CONSTRUCTION OF THE INTERSTATE highway system has been the glue that has held national transportatio

Between despondency and euphoria lies reality, territory rarely occupied by Americans in general, an

"The Obstructionists of Europe." This was the label attached to Britain in the 1980s by the

DEEPENING SHIP CHANNELS to allow larger vessels to call has become a life-or- death issue for many p

PRESIDENT BUSH, in his State of the Union address last week, gave reasons to be optimistic about the

A little over a week ago, the government of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev announced a radical m

Missing in action is George Bush's interest in fixing America's health care system, a gold-plated ex

SUPPORTERS OF A STOPGAP one- or two-year highway reauthorization bill won't have Rep. Robert Roe, D-

Too many nights have I dozed off with the TV on, only to be awakened by the national anthem and the

POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC REFORMS are disintegrating by the day in the Soviet Union. Yet President Bush

The United States is at war. Meanwhile, the nation's railroads and their unions face a deadline for

CUBA ALREADY HAS NUCLEAR CONTROLSIn "Stopping Cuba's Nuclear Push," (Opinion, Jan. 24) Eric

WHAT IF A SPECIAL FUND were created to correct the problems of troubled banks early on, before they

In an old film comedy, a character upsets a piece of furniture, knocks a second askew in trying to r

PRESIDENT BUSH'S STATE of the Union speech Tuesday portrayed a country in distress. The state of the

The recent collapse of trade talks under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade has confirmed wi

A number of tragic incidents have focused attention on the disrepair of the nation's public infrast

SOMETIMES THREE IS a crowd, but not when vital national trade interests are at stake. That's why the

An editorial published in the Monday, Jan. 28, Journal of Commerce misstated the deadline by which S

This is a tale of two countries. The only way, physically, to link them would be to drive a stake di

George Bush, like Lyndon Johnson a quarter-century ago, seems intent on hiding the cost of his forei

The denial of medical care for lack of money is no rarity in America. But cash-on-the-barrel for tre

DURING THE MONTHS LEADING up to war in the Persian Gulf, concerns were raised that U.S. troops would

AFTER SERVING NEARLY A YEAR as chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Edward J. Philbin dis

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT is losing a powerful spokesman for free trade with the departure of Agriculture

PRESIDENT BUSH WILL LAUNCH a sweeping campaign to cure the nation's banking ills tonight when he giv

The Persian Gulf war has hijacked the European Community's bid to transform itself from a powerful e

Can the European Community overcome its internal differences and establish a common currency, a cent

RESEARCH CENTER DEFENDS PREMISEIn your editorial "Corporate Suicide?" (Dec. 12) you allege t

UNNERVED BY THE PLUNGE in oil prices at the start of the Persian Gulf war, energy officials for the

As Pan American World Airways and Continental Airlines slide into bankruptcy and Eastern Airlines in

Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner's decision to let foreign interests hold as much as 49 perce