Commentary

THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY'S reputation in Washington has become ever more like that of the boy who cried

While the United States wrings its hands about gargantuan deficits, Taiwan has another problem: Reco

In an ironic historical twist, the legislatures of Western Europe's democracies are surrendering the

How can leadership roles be opened to women? How should the afflicted in the AIDS crisis be treated?

DRIVING A BIG RIG with a forged or duplicate operator's license is nothing new for thousands of truc

THE NEXT PRESIDENT of the United States, whether it's Michael Dukakis or George Bush, will get off t

PORTS OF THE OAKLAND-SAN FRANCISCO BAY are battling to recapture loss share of the West Coast contai

SOME AGENCIES ATTRACT TROUBLE and invite ridicule. There is no better example than the sideshow that

I never know how to write about Mino X. Kyriakou. He's bigger than one life. The various com

The U.S. International Trade Commission has under way a fact-finding investigation of a free trade a

The July 6 Publisher's Notebook by Don C. Becker echoed the administration's misleading line on rand

AFTER SIX YEARS OF ECONOMIC STAGNATION, foreign debt remains an insurmountable problem for much of t

Here is a business quiz: Suppose you are a computer maker in dire need of a certain type of semi-con

A lack of raindrops is causing a drought in the Midwestern farm belt, but drops of a different kind

THESE ARE TOUGH TIMES for the Teamsters. Last week, the beleaguered labor union, already the target

SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN Lloyd Bentsen's vice presidential campaign may keep him from spend

If I taught geography, I'd probably start the first class by showing Casablanca. Don't scoff

When doctors talk these days about the next revolution in medicine, the odds are they're thinking of

It is estimated that U.S. industry generates more than 200 million metric tons of hazardous waste ea

Since the first five months of 1942, when stock prices and trading activity were depressed by some o

CONGRESS IS ITCHING to get its hands on the labor dispute at the Chicago & North Western Transportat

Another tempest in a Brazilian teapot is on the White House stove. Two weeks ago, the White

LAST TIME WE LOOKED, the United States was running a foreign trade deficit somewhere over $10 billio

The federal tax on gasoline should rise from its present 9 cents a gallon to at least $1 a gallon to

EVIDENCE CONTINUES TO MOUNT that Brazil is sliding into economic chaos. Yet for reasons that are har

Let's start with the so-called Boston-Austin axis and the 28-year-old Dukakis- Bentsen analogy with

No one can deny the obvious: The Philippines' economy has taken off. The economic indicators show it

THE RECENT CONFERENCE of the South Atlantic and Gulf Coast District of the International Longshoreme

Nine years of government under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have unquestionably humbled the trad

George Bush would do well to select Elizabeth Hanford Dole as his vice presidential running mate. Ot

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED when the International Trade Commission met last week to hear the merits of n

Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis is expected to release a detailed position paper o

Since January 1988, the federal funds rate - the rate banks charge each other for overnight loans -

IN 1971, PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON said federally funded child care would Sovietize the United States.

In the old days, say three or four months ago, finding out what was happening inside the Mexican gov

Japan's central bank governor Satoshi Sumita remarked on his return from the recent meeting of the B

LOGISTICS ESSENTIAL TO JUST-IN-TIMEA goal and benefit of Just-in-Time systems is to cut down

MAQUILADORAS, THE IN-BOND FACTORIES that have turned the U.S.-Mexican border into a beehive of manuf

THE FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION took a small step this month that reinforces its commitment

THE TALK IS OF PEACE, but the war between Iran and Iraq remains bloody. Unexpectedly, the struggle h