Commentary

My experience obliges me to rebut the proposal that the U.S. Customs Service charge a fee for the is

Throughout the world, from Eastern Europe to East Asia, from Chile to China, the concept of free tra

FOR OVER A YEAR, the Treasury Department could find no need at all to increase the resources of the

PRESIDENT BUSH'S DECISION to bar China from owning an aircraft parts manufacturer in Seattle is a po

Corporate profits crashed in 1989. According to preliminary, unpublished estimates by the Commerce D

This past year has been a bad time for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. A full five years after

ELECTRICITY, AN ENERGY SOURCE Americans take for granted, increasingly is in short supply. The exces

SMILING BRAVELY, Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and Nicholas Brady, Treasury secretary

ACID RAIN STAND LACKS BASIS IN FACTI was shocked to read your editorial "Acid Rain Runaround

Opposition is mounting to the recent takeover of Union des Transports Aeriens, France's largest priv

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS UNDER fire for not rushing to take advantage of trade opportunities in th

BOLDNESS HASN'T EXACTLY been the strong suit of the Bush administration's first year. But the presid

The Bush administration may be about to revise its customs user fee proposal - again. The Ge

As the 1990s unfold, the world's financial markets are on the threshold of a technology-driven revol

The conservative revolutionaries of the late 1970s and early 1980s had someworthwhile things

ONCE AGAIN, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan is in a quandary. Wall Street is sagging a

Your Jan. 10 editorial, "End Freight Rate Game," demonstrates a total lack of knowledge on the subj

The best way to help ensure that America will have enough supplies of electricity to meet growing d

The Jan. 26 editorial "Plowing Coca Under" incorrectly stated the total amount of U.S. drug enforcem

This is dedicated to reporters daily engaged in their own phone hells, editors who may have forgotte

BACK IN THE NOT-SO-DISTANT days of Ronald Reagan, when mammoth budget deficits were beginning to mou

SOMETIMES, PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE. In other cases, all it does is waste time. The indications are moun

MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, as Defense Secretary Richard Cheney is fond of noting, like to cut defense spen

Until President Bush presented his new budget, last week had been an unsettling time: * Scie

STORY ON DISPERSANTS CLARIFIED, AMPLIFIEDThe recent article on dispersants ("Oil Spill Chemi

Congress should seize a historic opportunity to redesign one of the principal vestiges of the Cold W

Competitiveness was a Washington buzzword a couple of years ago. Less was heard of it last year. But

MUDDLED THINKING AND A LACK of imagination best describe the Bush administration 's 1991 transportat

NEW YORK'S GOVERNOR MARIO CUOMO, once a professional player himself, has signed a bill permitting Ne

The bears were growling on Wall Street last week. Stocks, bonds and the dollar all posted substantia

In recent weeks, long-term interest rates in the United States have risen by half a percentage point

British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd returned to London empty-handed from his recent visit to Hong

Despite the U.S. Customs Service's laudable efforts to streamline the ruling process in conjunction

SHOULD AN EMPLOYER bar a woman from certain jobs to protect an unborn childfrom workplace ha

THE FEDERAL BUDGET IS THREATENING to escape. Like a caged animal, it has been kept under control bec

If we believe in the American commitment to college education for the masses, we have to know that m

ROBERT DOLE, THE SENATE REPUBLICAN leader, probably wouldn't appreciate beingput in thesame

SHOULD FELONS BE ABLE TO BUY GUNS? Of course not, Congress said in 1988 when it passeda law requirin

The Export-Import Bank is about to unveil a new way to help finance U.S. exports. It's calle

With the beginning of a new decade, it is difficult not to wax philosophical. This is especially tru