Commentary

Farmers wonder if Japan's largest agricultural group is friend or foe. With U.S. trade negotiators d

IT'S GOING TO BE HARD, but let's get it over with. That was the clear message of Sunday's elections

It has been painfully clear for quite some time that the fate of the ongoing U.S.-Japan Structural I

Looking at the advance of freedom and democracy in Eastern Europe, most Americans feel a sense of sa

PRESIDENTS AND FOREIGN MINISTERS from around the world stood in line in Windhoek Tuesday night to ce

Rep. Daniel Rostenkowski, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, last week pr

The time has come for the European Community to translate its good will toward the infant democracie

IF IT LOOKS LIKE A CONFERENCE, talks like a conference and acts like a conference, shouldn't it be t

In October 1987, the stock market crashed. The Dow Jones Industrial average declined over 508 point

Democrats warn that Washington must save high-tech industries from shortsighted, penny-pinching poli

PRIVATELY OWNED AIRPORTS? TOLL ROADS built and managed by private entrepreneurs? These are among th

That kinder, gentler spirit that's wafting across Washington may be infectious. Even some of the ha

The first free elections in East Germany are over, and the new government faces an economy in a down

Speculation is growing that Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher may resign this summer. The

About 20 years ago, the bankruptcy of six railroads threatened vital rail freight service throughou

The 1990s loom large as the decade of aggressive strategic technology management. The new alliance

LAST YEAR AROUND THIS TIME, Chinese economic policy planners said inflation threatened to bring dow

THE PEPPER COMMISSION, the bipartisan congressional task force assigned to examine the failures of t

PROFIT ESTIMATES WEREN'T SUPPRESSEDIn his March 7 column, "Doctoring the News on Profits" (O

The debate over federal truck deregulation has focused largely on whether rates have gone up more o

The call to President Bush, by someone pretending to be the president of Iran, was a cruel hoax beca

WHEN TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY Samuel K. Skinner began shaping his national transportation policy 10

INSURANCE REGULATION: GIVE STATES A CHANCEThe recent attention focused on the financial cond

The White House was on the warpath against the Federal Reserve Board last week. The Los Angeles Time

Hollywood may not buy it, but Washington and Tokyo are scripting a titillating suspense drama. In fa

IT WOULD BE NICE TO BE ABLE to cheer the inauguration Thursday of Brazil's first elected president i

A SAFE DISTRICT CAN MAKE all the difference. In the case of Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., the chair

During the signing of the "first" Brady plan debt reduction package, Mexican President Carlos Salina

While there has been much discussion about debt forgiveness, concessionary credits, equity-debt swap

SHOULD FOREIGN INVESTORS in the United States be held to the same foreign investment rules their co

WOMEN CONTRIBUTE TO TWA CARGO TEAMThe article "Women Make Strides in Field" (Air Commerce, F

ONE OF THE FEW POINTS OF GEOGRAPHY about which most Americans are certain is the location of the wo

Few companies may be as closely identified with the Thatcher era as Saatchi & Saatchi, the advertisi

The International Monetary Fund is expected to approve two more big loans for Eastern Europe this we

A new chapter in the political economy of Latin America unfolds this month as Brazil, Chile and Urug

WHAT WITH CIVIL WAR RAGING and the economy flat on its back, one might think that Sudanese strongman

AFTER RAILING AGAINST FOREIGN BARRIERS to telecommunications trade a year ago, Carla Hills, U.S. tra

There was a time when having a child grow up to be a doctor or a lawyer was every mother's dream. Th

An old American friend recently visited Japan and brought me a gift. To my surprise, it was a new ca

Jack Sowers knows from hard experience why many big trucks hauling vegetablesfrom Central Fl