Commentary

The burst of record-size corporate takeovers in the fall of last year, including especially the $25

SCORCHING HEAT AND A PUNISHING DROUGHT sorely tested the nation's electric power system last summer.

The Senate last week approved sweeping legislation to pump more than $150 billion into ailing saving

JAPAN'S GOVERNMENT, PARALYZED since last summer by an ever-widening stock scandal, will be paralyzed

Two gentlemen are making the rounds of the Pacific this week - Vice President Dan Quayle and Richard

CAPITALISTS SURE HAVE some strange notions about capitalism. One of the strangest is that a company

To a town long on hot air but short on new ideas Detroit industrialist Lee Iacocca and Japanese corp

The recent arrest in Guadalajara of capo Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo provides Mexican diplomats here

ENERGY CONSERVATION IS OUT OF FASHION, and the Bush administration rightly wants to bring it back. B

CONTINUE DEVELOPING RESOURCES IN ALASKAYour March 29 editorial, "No Repeat Performance," exa

Few Europeans can tell you what the European Currency Unit looks like. But in the future, the Europe

SCRATCH ONE COUNTRY off the list of troubled foreign debtors: the Socialist Republic of Romania is n

TRADE, NOT AID, has become the rallying cry in much of the developing world. But the United States'

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY chief William Reilly showed some independence of mind last week when

DESPITE THE PRESS OF BUSINESS, members of Congress can create some amazing diversions. A recent exam

The apparent suicide of 1960s political activist Abbie Hoffman by swallowing a huge dose of barbitur

It has been 10 years since the first call of a vessel from China at a U.S. port. The arrival of the

With Cabinet-level support from Housing Secretary Jack Kemp, mayors are being urged to evict from pu

PREDATORY PRICING CASES are hard to win. When Kelco Disposal Inc., a Vermont trash hauler, proved th

The latest twist in the Soviet Union's diplomatic posture toward Latin America is its offer not to e

CHINA OPENING DOORS TO CHRISTIANITYEric Hotung's article, "Religion and Business in China" (

WITH UNANTICIPATED HASTE, a special committee of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has recommended swe

ANTITRUST EXEMPTION JUST PART OF MCCARRANYou April 5 editorial, "Too Little, Too Late," abou

MARITIME SUBSIDY REFORM has been like a toothache for members of Congress. Try as they may to ignore

During a recent trip to Vienna, I returned to my room at the Imperial Hotel after a hectic day of bu

Given Ogden Nash's perception, "Behold the Politician, Self-Preservation is his Ambition", it is puz

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY LED THE CHORUS against provisions in last year's trade bill encouraging U.S.

BOTH THE PUBLIC and, purportedly, the Environmental Protection Agency were ''shocked" last week to f

A major Census report in early 1989, raising the possibility of a decline in the U.S. population in

The longest peacetime boom in the U.S. economy is starting to run out of steam. That was the unmista

Murphy, renowned for "Murphy's Laws and Other Truths," would have felt very much at home in Japan.

As the Soviet Union continues its drive for perestroika to achieve economic and political restructur

THE BUDGET AGREEMENT unveiled Friday between President Bush and congressional leaders would be appro

Two Scotland Yard detectives are currently engaged in the most unlikely of investigations. More than

FINANCIAL MARKET MANIPULATION is not a victimless crime. The Securities and Exchange Commission dese

US TOURISM CREATES BIG EXPORT POTENTIALI was delighted to see the story, "Japanese Tourists

Mega income often is not a function of competency but a function of place. The measure of how good a

The United States is the first continental power in history to combine the capabilities of size and

JUST BEFORE LAST NOVEMBER'S ELECTION, George Bush promised to extend the quotas that have restricted

A TRIP BY VICE PRESIDENT DAN QUAYLE this week may give an early signal of how serious the United Sta