Commentary

THE WINDS OF HURRICANE HUGO have long since dissipated. As usual, the federal government is paying t

ALMOST EVERYONE who does business abroad recognizes Americans' culturalinsularity as a major

A mixture of profound sadness and great relief will be in the mental baggage as I leave China after

IT'S THE RARE POLITICIAN who ever encountered a tax cut he didn't like. And once again this fall, co

It was fun and games in world financial markets last week. Major central banks lobbed mortar shell a

Both the Commission on Merchant Marine and Defense and the United Shipowners of America have asserte

FEDERAL LAW REQUIRES that domestic airlines remain firmly under the control of U.S. citizens. Transp

Over the past 10 years, the United States has achieved massive deregulation in the railroad, truckin

MISPERCEPTIONS CITED ON FUEL WASTE ISSUEThe issue raised in your editorial on Aug. 28 ("Haza

Even the most intrepid of British holiday-makers would never have traveled abroad without water puri

FEDERAL HIGHWAY Administrator Thomas Larson said the Department of Transportation might endorse "use

House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., wants to take back a tax incentive that enco

When Emperor Hirohito died in January, his son Akihito became emperor. His official coronation, how

ARGENTINE PRESIDENT Carlos Menem wowed the crowds on his whirlwind tour of the United States last we

THE MIRACLE OF BUMPER CROPS every year could well occur by the end of this century thanks to rapid

America is suffering from an addiction that could just as easily destroy the future of our youth as

SHORT OF FUNDS, HEAVILY INDEBTED to foreigners and responsible for an ever smaller share of the worl

RALPH B. EVERETT HAS ENTERED the revolving door. We happen to know that, thanks to a press r

James F. Rill assumed principal responsibility for enforcing the nation's antitrust laws in July, wh

Following on the heels of the Soviet troop reductions in Eastern Europe and the almost unbelievable

US SHOULD ENCOURAGE PHONE LINKS TO CUBAYour Aug. 23 editorial ("Rethink Cuban Embargo") urge

WE TAKE NO JOY IN THE DOLLAR-BASHING antics of the world's major central banks this week. Foreign ex

Congress is considering legislation to prevent discrimination against the disabled and, as Yogi Berr

DESPITE OCCASIONAL WORDS OF ANGER, relations between railroads and the unions representing their wor

THE CONSUMER REVOLT IN INSURANCE was compared last week to the foul tactics that followed Adolf Hitl

THE COMPLETION OF VIETNAM'S troop withdrawal from Cambodia Tuesday, ending almost 11 years of occupa

Major U.S. banks started back across the Rubicon last week. In rapid-fire order, Manufacturers Hanov

Enrique Iglesias, the president of the Inter-American Development Bank, recently noting the secondar

Three years ago today, the Group of 7 - the U.S. treasury secretary, the finance ministers from Japa

The European Community's 1992 single market program has hit a mid-life crisis. The optimism of only

MONITORING NEEDED FOR GUARANTY FUNDSIt is unfortunate that your fine editorial ("Act Against

Congress is planning a 1991 plebiscite in Puerto Rico to determine whether it should become the 51st

AIDS DRUG RESEARCH IS COSTLY, but as Burroughs-Welcome Co. has shown with AZT, monopolistic sales of

Banks in most countries are required to hold non-interest-earning deposits at their central banks. T

THE RACE IS ON - even though it's supposed to be over. The 1984 Shipping Act, signed by Pres

THERE'S STILL A SCHOOL OF THOUGHT that demands "free trade." No matter what the circumstances, its a

SINCE 1982, trade deficits of unprecedented size have turned the world's largest international credi

I am sitting in a United Airlines plane flying over the Pacific on its way to Tokyo, trying to keep

Dim the lights. The "predators' ball" is winding down and it appears the predators have been the mai

WITH THE DOLLAR HITTING THE CEILING once again, the world's finance ministers are sure to talk a lot