Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

THE REORGANIZATION of Hungary's parliament has led Matyas Szuros, the country's interim leader, to d

Since 1986, analysts have warned that congressional and presidential lip service about the federal d

MARTHA HESSE, CHAIRMAN of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and FERC member Charles Stalon b

EARTHQUAKE AID IS ACKNOWLEDGEDAs the stories of community spirit and heroism begin to trickl

The ritual slanging match that characterizes every meeting of the world's largest club has once agai

RAILROAD WORKERS ARE COVERED by an archaic federal injury compensation law under which they are requ

Donald Phillips is a Maryland University academic now heading up the industry section in Carla Hills

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY Samuel K. Skinner says he and newly appointed Maritime Administrator Warren

Commercial policy always has been a form of strategic weapon. Thomas Jefferson, discussing relations

Try to get a free lunch in America. Most free meals are confined to breakfast and lunch programs for

Developing new collective bargaining agreements in the railroad industry is, at best, a long and com

AT LONG LAST, maritime policy has caught the attention of the White House. The National Security Sea

AFTER A YEAR OF SCANDAL on the futures exchanges in Chicago and New York, one might think that the

When the federal Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, an awesome responsibility was thrust up

SEALIFT CHIEF WANTS PROCUREMENT CHANGESAs a follow-up to your Publisher's Notebook (Oct. 5),

THERE'S NOTHING NEW about politics keeping the United States from adhering to its international trad

It is time for transportation policy to recognize that information transmission is the single most i

There's an old Peanuts cartoon that begins with Charlie Brown on a pitcher's mound. The other member

Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas F. Brady is the very model of a modern Republican. In pub

For years Japan has cultivated a postwar image of itself as a peace-loving society that had eradicat

KINGSTON, R.I., is not among the nation's busier transportation centers. But for Amtrak, the governm

THE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD resists rules for managing the money supply with every ounce of its streng

Japan should have a tough retaliatory measure ready if the Bush administration invokes sanctions aga

The powerful Franco-German alliance that is shaping the economic and political contours of the Europ

It is bad enough that President Bush sits mute in the face of the Chinese government's savage repres

THE GOVERNMENT'S ANTI-DRUG crusaders have been much more eager to arrest those who use drugs than to

When top airline industry executives like Ben Cosgrove of Boeing declare, ''Safety is No. 1," the re

AN OIL SPILL LIABILITY bill pending in the House of Representatives would shield thetransportation a

Americans and Japanese are more similar than dissimilar. Both peoples are highly competitive. But bo

With an eye to the next negotiations with Japan under the "Structural Impediments Initiative," U.S.

IN A FIT OF DEMOCRATIC VIRTUE, the House Aviation Subcommittee Thursday postponed legislating on air

Dr. George Abed, executive director of the Geneva-based Palestine Welfare Association, has proposed

REFORESTING AMERICA is President Bush's latest campaign; he has taken to planting trees during visit

Electronics, they say, is breaking down the distinctions in the information business. Newspapers wan