Commentary

I've often wondered as I've climbed up an escalator that wasn't moving whether the rise of the steps

The 1988 Trade Act requires the Treasury Department to report to Congress countries that manipulate

WHEN THE STOCK MARKET soars, there are no complainers. But let prices take a tumble, and complaints

UNCLE SAM'S EMPTY POCKETS increasingly are weakening America's influence on the international scene.

STAND ON SPILL BILL APPALLS OIL INDUSTRYIt is with great displeasure that I read the editori

The compromise that will boost the federal minimum wage for the first time in eight years is a mixtu

In December 1978, Vietnam invaded Cambodia and put an end to Khmer Rouge rule. The bloody Phnom Penh

Central America has come to a pivotal point in its history - one requiring a sustainable policy init

'INEFFICIENT' LABEL DOESN'T FIT SHIPYARDSYour editorial, "Sealift Policy" (Oct. 20), leaves

WASHINGTON - "That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where onc

Next Monday, ministers from 12 Pacific Rim countries will gather in Canberra, Australia, to discuss

WHEN THE EXXON VALDEZ hit the rocks off Alaska last March, a U.S. company with deep pockets was at h

Washington gave Wall Street a powerful tranquilizer last week. According to the Commerce Department,

Health policy makers, members of Congress and state legislators have turned their attention northwar

FEW COMMODITIES ARE MORE VITAL to a modern economy than oil. And few examples of environmental degra

Sharply focused television pictures of tumbling houses and falling bridgesections, with San

INTERNATIONAL TALKS ON CURBING FARM subsidies have gone nowhere since 1987, when the United States c

OIL SPILL STAND SHOWS LACK OF INFORMATIONWe have read with surprise and even with sadness th

On Sept. 4, 1986, the Standard & Poor's composite stock price index closed at a new historic high of

The unswerving conviction and strength of belief that contributed so much toward the Thatcher phenom

PRESIDENT BUSH HAS FRITTERED away much of his first year in office picking fights with Congress over

Later this year, Congress will consider legislation to raise the debt limit for the federal governme

Most Americans, and perhaps many others in the world as well, are having difficulty adjusting to the

AS WESTERN EUROPE moves toward unity, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's opposition to a Eur

THE PERPETUAL WAR OF WORDS between the fiercely competitive trucking and railroad industries has tak

The Socialist Unity Party, the ruling communist party of the German Democratic Republic, is locked i

The speech wasn't thrilling. An officer from the Army Corps of Engineers was droning on about how hi

ONLY THE THREAT OF COMMUNISM and the scourge of drugs, Latin Americans rightly complain, manage to p

STATE REGULATION of interstate commerce holds the potential for economic chaos, as business is subje

SPILL LIABILITY STAND GETS LOW MARKSWe have read with concern and dismay your Oct. 17 editor

LIABILITY FOR SPILLS MUST BE LIMITEDYour Oct. 17 editorial, "Forgiving Oil Spills," suggests

1992 is the year in which the Single European Act is to make 12 national markets into one Europe-wid

THE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT between Canada and the United States has faced its first serious test. To t

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY Samuel Skinner could use a compass to navigate the heavy weather buffeting

There is a land that uses large wall maps to impress upon its children, from the start of their form

PRODUCTIVE GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT? Many would label it an oxymoron. But last week, Michael Boskin, ch

ON THE NEAR SIDE of the field, charging in to help bolster the Soviet defense, there's . . . it can'

Almost every year since the passage of The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, known as

World financial markets regained their composure almost as quickly as they lost it in the market cra

Now that the bruising fight to correct last year's catastrophic care blunder is going into its final