Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WHAT DO BILL BRADLEY and Newt Gingrich have in common? Two things only: They both sit in Congress an

COMMENTS IMPROPER FOR FMC MEMBERI have read with some dismay Marc Levinson's article in the

THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE confirms what New Yorkers long have suspected: the mails just don't work ver

Some in Europe are seeking to tarnish America's reputation abroad by promoting the view that the nat

Communist Cuba now boasts a tourist attraction that expresses perfectly the country's near-obsession

''PARTICIPATIVE MANAGEMENT," "flexible job design," "team orientation." These concepts in human reso

It has been harder, and more worrisome, to read President Bush's lips. Not on taxes. It's cl

STATE INSURANCE REGULATORS have had much to answer for in 1990. A damning congressional study blamed

NVOS ARE SUBJECT TO FMC JURISDICTIONThe Nov. 6 editorial, "Veto the NVO Bill," is erroneous

Washington's grueling budget strife has allowed little time for ceremonial observations, especially

1991 promises to be a lively, perhaps even landmark, year on Capitol Hill. The congressional calenda

In every recession, a time comes when the economy goes into a free fall. This is happening now.<

The following story circulated in Uganda in the 1970s: Once upon a time, Gen. Mustafa Adrisi, vice p

THE BANKING INDUSTRY'S problems give the Federal Reserve Board plenty to worry about. The likelihood

FREIGHT ISN'T SEXY, and it doesn't vote. That makes it of little use to Congress. The irony is that

THE CHAIRMAN OF THE NEW YORK STOCK Exchange, John J. Phelan Jr., is being a bit on the optimistic si