Commentary

It's too bad that Bill Seidman and Bob Clarke can't step in and seize the federal government - the b

REMEMBER WHEN, more than two years ago, sponsors of the Omnibus Trade Act and the Reagan administrat

IF YOU SPENT TIME in a congested airport over the holidays, take heart - help may be on the way. The

The Uruguay Round of trade talks under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade has come to an imp

LAW DOESN'T BENEFIT PORT OF LAKE CHARLESYour article headlined "Port of Lake Charles Benefit

In the days just prior to and after the German invasion of Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, there was a flur

THE PURCHASE OF MCA Inc. by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. of Japan touched a sensitive xenophob

For too many years, the ground rules for competition between and within the Democratic and Republica

The state of the nation is grim at the midpoint of the Bush administration. The country is on the br

"Keiretsu" is today a fighting word in trade negotiations between the United States and Japan. To th

RECESSION AND LAYOFFS, unfortunately, go hand in hand. As more companies are forced to make tough de

PAN AM CORP.'s decision Tuesday to file for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the ba

A generation ago there were two coffee shops in Constitution Square, Zavourites and Zaharatous, to w

BASE AUTO INSURANCE ON MILES DRIVENYour report, "Higher Gasoline Prices Won't Cut Crash Clai

EACH DAY BRINGS MORE BAD NEWS for the nation's ailing banking system. The latest shock waves hit Sun

A friend recently called me from the newest country in the world - Namibia. Formerly a South African

That warm holiday spirit dies fast at American Trucking Associations. Barely a week into the new yea

1990 WAS A BAD YEAR for free trade, and the outlook isn't much brighter for 1991. The unpleasant alt

There are two principal forces behind the drive for limiting congressional terms that President Bush

Japan has been the focus of considerable negative attention during the Iraq- Kuwait crisis because o

Americans have a love affair with bigness. The big car and big home have long been symbols of the na

The following is an open letter to Max Frankel, executive editor of The New York Times: The

It was a dark and gloomy January day in the nation's capital. The man with the white beard and the f

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION is trying to tiptoe gracefully out of a tight corner. President Bush had off

IT IS A TESTAMENT to our concern for the environment that no one seriously doubts the need to reduce

This year has begun with more big uncertainties than the law should allow. For starters, the

The Middle East crisis, higher world oil prices, the collapse of Eastern Europe and the onset of a U

THERE'S NO SHORTAGE TO LIMIT SCRUBBERSMany articles have appeared recently in your paper, in

BANKRUPTCIES ARE NOTHING NEW in the trucking industry. But the demise of former industry giant P-I-

AMERICANS WHO REACH OUT and touch someone with an international phone call also may be supporting th

It took the loss of more than a million Americans' jobs, but the Federal Reserve System finally figu

Last weekend, the Commerce Department released a 2.8-centimeter thick volume called U.S. Industrial

The November meeting between President Bush and President Carlos Salinas de Gortari of Mexico added

AN ESTIMATED 30 MILLION AMERICANS took trips of 100 miles or more in their cars over the Christmas a

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV IS NOT the only leader struggling to keep his country united in the face of obstin

AFTER A DECADE OF VIGOROUS price competition, the trucking industry is facing the unwelcome prospect

When sparks fly in Washington, Japan often takes the heat. But while temperatures rise over the late

The confrontational tone of many analysts as to what happened - or didn't happen - in the recent ro

Books on management are popular these days for a number of reasons. Running a company successfully d

SEALIFT COMMAND HAS RIGHT TO SECRECYYour Dec. 18 editorial ("The First Casualty") harshly an