Commentary

The airline industry is expected to report staggering fourth-quarter losses as a result of the sharp

IS THE U.S. ECONOMY in a recession? Economists have been debating that question for months, but the

IT WON'T CORRECT the dire Soviet food shortage expected this winter, but leaders in the Russian Repu

Americans should be repulsed by the spectacle of United Airlines and American Airlines picking like

I can give you all the fancy reasons we appear to be in a recession, butsomehow they don't

The Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is scheduled to conclude at a minist

IT'S GETTING HARDER to tell the U.S. automakers from the Japanese automakers. Toyota Motor Co.'s ann

POINT, COUNTERPOINT ON DUMPING POLICYTrade lawyer Paul Rosenthal's rebuttal of Thomas Thomps

The Bush administration, Congress and much of the surface transportation industry will do battle nex

ILLINOIS' TRUCKING REGULATORS can't make up their minds. Last summer, state officials struck a blow

The news media and the government recently figured out that we're in a recession. Some busin

VIETNAMESE OFFICIALS say they hope all the factions in the 12-year-old civil war in Cambodia will em

IT'S BEING CALLED "an accident in Polish democracy." When roughly 16 million Poles turned out to vot

Yoshihito Watanabe glanced at the office windows and was pleased to see there was no moon to lighten

A major confrontation is brewing between the Federal Reserve, the administration and Congress. With

Having won the battle over beef and oranges, the United States now insists that the Japanese must ea

SHOULD FOREIGN CORPORATIONS be allowed to buy U.S. airlines? Officials at the Department of Transpo

Being American means never having to say you're sorry. We're always the guys with the white hats. We

CHECK THE FACTS ON US-FLAG SHIPPINGI would have preferred that this letter would have had as

American chemical exporters are outraged. A Korean chemical company, Korea Engineering Plastics, has

The dashing Michael Heseltine, the statesman-like Douglas Hurd or the personable John Major. That is

VIETNAMESE BANKING OFFICIALS last week said the government has allowed the creation of the country's

MARGARET THATCHER DID WONDERS to help Britain grow and prosper in the 1980s. Her departure will do t

The World Bank's executive board is slated this week to take up an increasingly touchy issue - new l

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan set a trap for the stock market last week. Mr. Greenspan lo

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY Samuel K. Skinner's decision last week to sell three government-owned natur

You have comfortably and safely settled down in your seat in an airplane flying from Geneva to Londo

NOT MANY PEOPLE are sanguine about the economy these days, but there's a contrarian in every crowd.<

President Bush and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari are due to confer early next week in

NVO BILL TO ENFORCE EXISTING REGULATIONSYour editorial about proposed non-vessel-operating c

LAST WEEK'S ANNOUNCEMENT that Walter Shea, a vice president of the International Brotherhood of Team

President Bush meets next week with Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari to discuss progress

NO GROUP HAS PROFITED MORE from transportation deregulation than enterprising truckers. Thou

Time is running out fast for Western Europe to defuse a ticking time bomb that threatens to convulse

Many blacks enjoy boasting that the black community has buying power in excess of $200 billion annua

The election defeat of Rep. Roy Dyson, D-Md., means a new chairman for the House Merchant Marine an

Ever since the stormy collapse last June of a constitutional reform package, Canada resembles a ship

THE DEBATE OVER MARITIME subsidy reform has gone on aimlessly for a decade. The request by a major U

FMC NOT IN NEED OF ECONOMISTSJesse Calhoon's letter of Nov. 9 criticizing my short tenure an

RARELY HAS THE not-in-my-backyard movement suffered a more stunning defeat. After a decade of conten