Commentary

GO ABROAD, YOUNG WOMAN, GO ABROAD: That's the advice from an increasing number of international comp

IF THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund is to get a new financial infusion, it first must define its role

When you write about business for some 25 years, you cannot help but become a student of leadership.

THERE ARE A LOT of things wrong about the European Community's proposed ban on the milk-production d

A dramatic, far-reaching inter-agency battle has broken out on the Washington scene between the Defe

CAPITAL FLIGHT, TRADE FINANCING UNRELATEDOn the first page of the July 5 Journal of Commerce

Americans expecting rapid changes in the trade balance because of the dollar's recent gyrations will

DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT CHAIRMAN MAO? Asked how the world would have been different had Lee Harve

AIR TRAVELERS KNOW that few bargains are found on lightly traveled routes. It's more than likely tha

ALMOST MORE PRECIOUS to American teen-agers than life itself is their wheels, their right to roll. I

From the moment my flight from Warsaw touched down in Prague, it was obvious that Czechoslovakia is

RAILROADS HAVE BECOME the latest boutique items in Wall Street's quest for new things to buy and sel

During the last several months, there has been unprecedented attention paid to employee stock owners

At the end of the Pacific war in the summer of 1945, the narrow Japanese roads were nearly empty of

It's summertime, and the livin' on Wall Street is easy. Like Ole Man River, stock prices keep rollin

THEY CALLED IT THE WAR TO END WARS, but when it began 75 years ago, no one could have imagined the h

ON THE DAY A TERRORIST GROUP in Lebanon said it had hanged U.S. Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins,

INSURANCE ADVOCATE DOESN'T MAKE SENSEYour call for the appointment of an independent insuran

While most companies are still talking about the need to be bigger, diversify and expand into new ma

WEST SHOULDN'T ADD TO CHINA'S TRAGEDYWhat compels some Americans to defend the actions of th

SPRAY DEODORANTS will be outlawed. Gasoline-powered lawn mowers will be no more. Even backyard barbe

There is a common misperception that the federal funds rate is an accurate measure of whether moneta

Japan's experience with democracy since 1945 is a rare success story. Transplanted here by the U.S.

PROSPECTS LOOK GOOD for the Inter-American Development Bank to win a $9.3 billion authorization this

POLITICS IS POLITICS and economics is economics, China's leaders tell the world; even as they contin

IT'S HARD TO ARGUE with safety. But the National Transportation Safety Board's recommendation that f

Our children's future is plunging deeper into the sheep-dip while the fiddlers in Washington dwell o

LATEST CUSTOMS RULE MAY SPUR BREAKDOWNYour July 28 report, "Overloaded Computers Snarl Custo

SEN. JESSE HELMS, R-N.C., received the classic good news/bad news message in a recent survey of Nort

THEY MAY NOT KNOW the cause, but department store patrons, cable television subscribers and airline

Most scientists now agree that the greenhouse effect is real and that its consequences could be disa

This started as a conversation at luncheon. An accountant asked: ''Will the Japanese ever op

We've all sighed in relief at the unexpected sight of so many survivors walking away from the shatte

Get ready for the great coffee blowout, which is about to send retail prices sharply lower over the

Experience sometimes makes all the difference. When the rear engine of his DC- 10 blew up and flung

ALCOHOLISM, THE AMERICAN ADDICTION of preference, has been overlooked in the current rush to solve t

WHEN KAREN PHILLIPS joined the Interstate Commerce Commission last August, she became the swing vote

SELF-REGULATION IS THE PRIDE of the futures markets: At the exchanges in Chicago and New York, Minne

President Bush's steel policy - the one announced last week - raises more questions than it answers.

The U.S. economy is on the road to recession. That was the central message in the report last week o