Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Federal Railroad Administration is an enigma. It's an agency with no big federal program to admi

INVESTMENT BANKING ISN'T exactly a hot business: With the stock market tumbling and the merger boom

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

Throughout its history, the Federal Railroad Administration has devoted a great deal of time to duck

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

A CHEMICAL MANUFACTURER HAS charged three foreign companies with dumping, or selling products below

The United States is trying to maintain international trade practices that defy commercial realities

I went to vote last week wondering whether I'd run into any of the anti- incumbent sentiment suppose

US NEEDS PROGRAM FOR RAIL, INTERMODALRe "What's Next for Mr. Skinner" (Washington Report, Op

THE UNITED STATES HAS NOT been shy in demanding that Japan reshape its society in ways that supposed

After two years in office, Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari still has some difficult time

There probably is no more popular male-dominated, macho activity in Japan than horse racing. Yet gro

In the manic-depressive world of Wall Street, the risk of a credit crisis is the latest obsession. U

EUROPE HAS CHANGED SO FAST the diplomats can hardly keep up. Next Monday, 32 European leaders, joine

DEBT-FOR-DRUGS IDEA HAS MAJOR FLAWSThe idea put forth in "Fair Exchange: Debt for Drugs" (Ho

Within the next 12 months the United Nations must select a new secretary general. The task is far mo

Imagine trying to sell off 8,000 companies, most of them with technology dating back to World War II

IT TOOK SEVEN TRIES for the European Community to agree on an agriculture proposal for the Uruguay R