Commentary

WHY WOULD A COMPANY abandon a natural gas well with plenty of reserves and then spend money to drill

The Department of Energy has been building an emergency response capability for crude oil and petrol

ALL EYES ARE FOCUSED on the Persian Gulf as the Tuesday United Nations' deadline for an Iraqi withdr

Two of the more powerful Democrats on trade policy in Congress are weighing runs for the presidency

While rumors of the death of the world trade talks have been widely exaggerated, so too are expectat

The deteriorating international position of many U.S. industries in the past two decades has raised

Now that the Marxist-Leninist economies have failed in practice, the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary,

SOUTH KOREA IS POISED to become one of the great economic success stories of the 1990s, but it is al

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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