Commentary

South Korea is being haunted by the prospect of an Olympic Games racked by violence. The cou

THE AILING LABOR MOVEMENT needs a victory. That, more than anything else, explains organized labor's

The Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the United States contains no provisions on transportati

Are We Subsidizing The Wrong Ships?Your newspaper has been replete with reports about the de

As my guide from the Irish Development Agency drove me through the pleasant green suburbs of Cork, m

THE U.S. SENATE has finally said No! to drugs. By a margin of 63 to 27, senators voted Thursday to s

THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT to bid for military cargoes is one of the prerogatives of ships flying the U.S.

RAIL AND TRUCK lobbyists never tire of attacking one another, but this week the American Trucking As

THIS COUNTRY'S APPROACH to tobacco usage has become as smoky as the industry's products. Cigarette p

HERE'S AN IDEA: Let's tax well-run businesses to subsidize their mismanaged competitors. The

Speaker of the House of Representatives James Wright surprised me. I asked him what was wrong with t

From 1854 to the end of World War II, only two peacetime expansions of the U.S. economy lasted three

THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY'S sudden eagerness to reduce the use of chlorofluorocarbon s carries with it a

RAILROAD LABOR UNIONS WON a lawsuit last week when a federal appeals court affirmed their right to b

More than 4,500 people died in heavy truck-related accidents last year, and the number is growing. A

During the past seven years, the Reagan administration has played a persistent drum-beat on the them

Article Misjudged MacBride PrinciplesI read with great interest Mr. John Cushnahan's attack

AS THE MEMBERS of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund meet this week in Washington, o

Austerity budgets and structural reforms in Argentina have earned President Raul Alfonsin internatio

The diplomatic accords designed to pave the way for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan

On March 8, 1988, the Journal of Commerce printed an op-ed article by Robert C. Waters, a professor

The three major international aid agencies headquartered here, the International Monetary Fund, the

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan seems determined to scuttle the U.S. economic expansion. Las

It may be surprising to learn that commercial fishing is the most dangerous industry in the United S

IN THE MIDST of the increasingly xenophobic reaction to foreign investors who buy into the United St

IN THE MID 1970s, Standard Oil Co. of Ohio proposed an efficient, secure system to get the crude oi

The head-hunters will soon be on their way to Silicon Valley, hoping to put an end once and for all

IN THE COURT of public opinion, perception and reality are often one and the same. No one un

A DECISION on awarding an airline route between Seattle and Tokyo offers the Department of Transport

The chief question in the ocean shipping industry for the 1990s is whether the U.S. goal of a strong

Young Drivers Will Keep US TruckingThe national shortage of qualified truck drivers needed t

WHITE HOUSE OBJECTIONS to trade bill provisions have focused much more on other items, but the trade

THE POLITICAL STRUGGLE is not yet over. But as Congress reconvenes today after its week-long Easter

The formal, conscious and deliberate concealment of information presents inherent dangers to a free

The advent of miniature tape recorders, the kind that are easily concealable on your person, puts ex

Clearing the Water On US-Flag VesselsThe March 25 letter of the Transportation Institute's c

When the House of Commons returns next week after the Easter recess, it will begin to face seriously

THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION'S LATEST PLAN to sell the government's Western oil reserves to private com

FIGHTING INFLATION is part of the job for a governor of the Federal Reserve Board. But it is a

By age 58, Mr. Brown had labored in middle management at a large manufacturing company in the Northe