Commentary

YOU HAVE A MARITIME INDUSTRY that eats its children is Transportation Secretary Jim Burnley's succin

TWO INTERESTING ITEMS in The New York Times caught our eye the other day. One noted that the savings

I grew up with a group of friends with whom I regularly competed to see who could wrestle better, ru

More than any looming political crisis, the financial markets are likely to provide George Bush with

THE AUDIT VIEWPOINT OF PAYMENT CYCLESAs president of a freight payment service, I carefully

ISRAEL, WHICH PRIDES ITSELF on being the only democracy in the Middle East, is offering the world a

CONVICTED RACKETEER Anthony Provenzano died Monday of a heart attack in a California prison. But the

Former Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa's reluctance to convene the Group of 7 seemed inten

Holidays are here. The Stock Exchange Christmas tree has once again sprouted on Broad Street. It is

For the Japanese, the prolonged illness of Emperor Hirohito, who has been bedridden with cancer sinc

OCCASIONALLY, PEACE AND GOOD SENSE threaten to break out between the nation's railroads and their la

FEW RESOURCES ARE IN SHORTER SUPPLY than managerial skill. Today, the federal government's Commissio

ANONYMOUS SOURCES NOT ALWAYS RELIABLEI have noticed that your paper often prints material fr

With only five Latvian deputies voting against it, the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union late last

Problem Child Argentina's fractious army has jumped back into the news to remind the world t

President-elect Bush should have reversed the cabinet jobs he picked for CarlaHills and Robe

In March 1988, the attorney general of Massachusetts and 18 of his colleaguesfrom other stat

THE HEADLINES ARE GRIM, but the news from last week's meeting of the world's trade negotiators in Mo

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV made a stirring speech in New York last week. But as is so often the case with Sov

The think tank game is the hottest game around. Hardly a day goes by without an issue paper from som

ECONOMIC ADVISERS COME and economic advisers go, often with little influence on the policies of the

It's that time of year again. I've got to sneak up on my car. Like myself, my almost 13-year

More than ever before, governments and world leaders are caught in a dialectic push pull of converge

Much attention and rhetoric has focused on technology, and its significance for international compet

LONG ISLANDERS ARE finally catching on to an idea that makes economic sense: If they're going to pay

As the new year begins, an historic piece of federal economic regulation, Section 408 of the Federal

REMARKS QUOTED OUT OF CONTEXTRemarks attributed to me in a recent Reporter's Notebook column

ADMITTEDLY, THE UNITED NATIONS CAN BE an uncomfortable guest. But that does not absolve the United S

There are moments when life imitates football. The presidential transition being played out here is

SOVIET LEADER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV will open a Soviet trade exhibit in New York today to show his count

Bigger, dumber transactions will surely be done in months or years to come. But for raw greed, hubri

The biggest planned political event of 1989 may well be the summit meeting, now confirmed, between S

Democracy, of all things, may be getting in the way of the Uruguay Round, a panel of economic expert

A PENSION IS NOT A PROMISE to take lightly. A federal district court judge reaffirmed that important

One of the lessons many of us have learned from last July's Piper Alpha oil rig disaster in the Nort

Little progress will be made at this week's midterm review of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trad

IN ONE MORE SIGN of Latin America's discontent with economic stagnation and foreign debt, Venezuelan

ARTICLE ON ROMANIA WAS JUST PROPAGANDAIt was an unpleasant surprise to read in your paper th

ONE OF THE DECADE'S MORE SORDID labor disputes has come to a positive end. After years of ignoring c

GEORGE BUSH TALKED TO ALAN GREENSPAN by phone the day after the Federal Reserve chairman's tough tes