Commentary

EVERYONE WANTS TO FIGHT DRUGS, but no one wants to pay the tab. The Coast Guard has been waiting for

IN POLITICS, ONE MAN, ONE VOTE is a rule that makes sense. In corporate governance, however, it may

A robust economy in the United States with exports in the lead and good internal growth in Japan are

Few would have expected that Snow White would offer a guide for this year's election campaign. But w

For the past couple of months, talks between U.S. and Philippine representative s have been under wa

Washington celebrated a historic milestone last week. By a wide margin, the Senate passed and sent t

When are you transportation-logistics people going to jazz up your image? the dean asks Tom Ashton,

A LOVE FEAST IS IN STORE when the leaders of the seven major industrial nations convene their annual

HAVING HEARD THE WAILS OF CONSUMERS, the nation's state insurance commissioners are proposing a nove

REAL AIR BAG VICTORY BELONGS TO VICTIMThank you for your May 31 editorial that calls attenti

OPPOSING THE WISHES of senior citizens' groups may be the toughest vote in Congress. But last week,

IT WAS ONLY A SYMBOLIC SHIPLOAD, but the first American-built Hondas to reach the Japanese market ar

It now appears as though the U.S. equity markets will soon be relying on circuit breakers to allevia

Call it Ebbegate. It's a Swedish scandal, not one of those late 1960's movies that tickled the pruri

SELF-PROCLAIMED FREE TRADERS are jubilant at the defeat of the Omnibus Trade Bill of 1988, now dead

THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY was strangely silent last week when Karen Phillips, nominated to fill a vacanc

Top finance ministers and central bankers continue to express confidence in Treasury Secretary James

To take advantage of the future in world trade, you must know where that future is going. If

WITH SOLOMONIC WISDOM, the governors of New York and Ohio have agreed on an imaginative plan to brea

THE FRENCH AND WEST GERMAN governments' decisions to forgive loans to nations in sub-Saharan Africa

Soviet Trade Climate Remains Cool to USIt is not surprising that U.S.-Soviet trade and busin

Auction quotas are an idea whose time, in the view of many, has come. In the now-defunct Omnibus Tra

Until the proposed U.S.-Canada free trade agreement surfaced, many Canadians suspected that fights o

THE $1.14 BILLION put out by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. to close down two Californ

For as long as I have been covering aviation, Eastern Airlines has been an aggressive, expansionist

A NEW FISHERIES AGREEMENT between the United States and the Soviet Union takes animportant first ste

Whenever U.S.-Soviet political relations begin to warm, officials in Washington develop scenarios fo

The news came during the summit media splash about the new openness or glasnost of Soviet society an

MANY COMPANIES THAT SHIP by truck are caught in a regulatory no-man's land. Congress partially dereg

FOR SEVEN YEARS, LOW ENERGY PRICES have been a major force in the relatively successful U.S. struggl

A consensus is beginning to emerge that debt reduction is the only feasible way to manage Latin Amer

Wall Street, which likes nothing better than to work up a good sweat jumping to conclusions, has fou

Microeconomics is suddenly in vogue. For years, government leaders in search of a stronger,

The Mexican poet and essayist, Octavio Paz, once said that American policy toward his country was ch

THE SUPREME COURT last week struck a blow for natural gas deregulation by reversing a bizarre lower

How McCarran Act Aids Insurance BuyersFor a newspaper that specializes in covering insurance

The Swedes sweat about it and the Japanese are nervous over it. European politicians wax eloquently

THE DEBATE OVER REFORMING the financial markets has gone precisely nowhere since last October's stoc

THE REAGAN administration can't find anyone in Congress to introduce its new Customs user fee bill.<

If the Omnibus Trade Bill becomes law - either by veto override this week or in a stripped-down vers