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Reporters write for readers. The greatest satisfaction a reporter gets is when readers write back fo

''CONSUMER ADVOCATE" IS A PHRASE that sends a shudder through the insurance industry. Yet the hotly

THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT SPACE that is irresistible to politicians. At a time when only loose account

How healthy is the economy? Private analysts widely expect the Commerce Department to report

In the great scheme of things, the "driftnet war" waged by the United States against Japan, South Ko

MEXICO CITY - Over the past 15 years foreign investment has been the subject of heated debate in Mex

TREASURY SECRETARY NICHOLAS F. BRADY'S much-heralded plan to relieve the debts of developing countri

FOR MOST OF THE 1980s, environmentalists tried in vain to convince the Environmental Protection Agen

COMPENSATION LAW ALSO HURTS MARITIMELarry Kaufman's column "Inside Talk on Transportation" i

On Feb. 10, the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiation submitted a report entitled "Ana

Get ready for a real treat. I shall, with no apologies and in possession of my rational faculties, b

CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS, THE CHEMICALS that are eating away at the ozone layer, are on the way out. This

According to the story, Cuban President Fidel Castro tells his central committee that "I have good n

It was a spectacle to make a farm state senator blush: on April Fool's Day, a freighter laden with 2

FOR A CHANGE, the inflation news is bullish: Wednesday's announcement that consumer prices rose only

AT LAST WEEKEND'S economic summit, world leaders asked the International Maritime Organization to pl

THERE'S A RARE CONSENSUS on Capitol Hill that the cost of capital puts American business at an inter

The railroad industry has a simple view on the issue of substance abuse in the workplace. It is that

A finding by an administrative law judge at the U.S. International TradeCommission is causin

Stock market participants waltzed around in their own private paradise last week, oblivious to reali

LAND REDISTRIBUTION IS NOT CAPITALISMHow nice that, after all, the chief economist for First

''No one can walk backwards into the future," an American writer once observed. Hopefully the United

Heaven is where the policemen are British, the cooks are French, the lovers are Italian and everythi

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV HAS DONE IT AGAIN. With his keen sense of timing, the Soviet leader managed to ste

ANGRY AS HORNETS, business lobbyists have been buzzing around Capitol Hill demanding the repeal of S

The roughly 300 pieces of legislation needed to pave the way for a single market within the European

MANUFACTURING HAS BEEN the bright spot in America's productivity picture: While the service sector's

AFTER 20 MONTHS OF WAITING for the courts to rule on the future of the short- line railroad industry

U.S. NEGOTIATORS expect this month's bilateral aviation talks with Japan to produce only a limited l

There is a natural antithesis between traders, those involved in commerce between people and nations

Coming off a subdued Fourth of July, in which the once fiercely independent Americano was reduced to

You might say that Robert Mosbacher got off to an excessively fast start. A newcomer to Washington,

TO THE LAYMAN, foreign aid sounds like something to help developing countries feed, house and educat

For the first time in memory, big wheels in Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PR

WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND. BAT Industries PLC, the British conglomerate, is about to illustrate

During the 1960s, as a student of China, I was to examine the social and psychological origins of ma

IN REACTION TO THREE RECENT oil spills, the House of Representatives' Appropriations Committee wants

Due to a typographical error, an article by Richard E. Feinberg on this page July 11 misstated the a

Many of the foot-tall American flags that someone set out on all the front lawns in our neighborhood

MOVING FORWARD IN REVERSE GEARIn an effort to formulate a more aggressive U.S. trade policy,