Commentary

The two primary entities of our maritime industry are the commercial fleet and the shipyards. The de

ELSEWHERE ON THIS PAGE, Transportation Secretary James Burnley takes issue with a recent editorial q

Inaccuracies Marred Airbus ArticleA recent article on Airbus (Jan. 25) contains a number of

There is little, if any, support in Australia for a free trade agreement with the United States.

WITH THE RELEASE last week of President Reagan's fiscal 1989 budget, we have another achievement fro

The economic depression plaguing world commerce and trade for the past seven years has had particula

OVER THE VIGOROUS objections of the Justice Department, Congress is about to pass a bill that repudi

IT'S BEEN FOUR LONG YEARS since the United States first voiced its objections to Brazil's nationalis

Since the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates was established after World War II, the role

Let's start with a small confession. A few days before the New Hampshire primary, a friend asked me

The Public Broadcasting System in December and January aired the The Politics of Food, which touched

WHY IS THE ECONOMY slowing down? The answer, claims the Economic Report of the President, is to be f

For an economy originally developed on the premise of a continually abundant labor supply, it is som

Did you know that President Reagan signed the free trade deal with Canada on Jan. 2 without dressing

IT MAY BE BOUND IN BABY BLUE, but the Economic Report of the President, the annual volume in which t

President Reagan sent Congress his seventh and, for practical purposes, final budget last week. The

After the fall of the dollar and the crash of Oct. 19, many commentators have argued that a new trad

AT LONG LAST, the Interstate Commerce Commission has seen fit to intervene in the stormy affairs of

After the successful summit meeting of the European Community earlier this month, West Germany has e

Soviet Human Rights: Arbitrariness PrevailsIf Thomas H. Naylor's Jan. 28 column Unlink Emigr

All generalizations are wrong, including this one. If a person is going to generalize in pri

PENSION FUND ADMINISTRATORS who were too heavily invested in the stock market on Oct. 19 might think

THE INDICTMENT OF A FOREIGN political figure in a U.S. court is a questionable undertaking to begin

THERE'S BEEN VERY LITTLE PUBLICITY about Senate-House conferees' work on one of the more controversi

I find few things better when having a week off than to read books by my intellectual betters while

THE FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION is faced with a knotty dilemma in its efforts to bring about equitab

The United States is now Uruguay's second largest trading partner, but growing world protectionism a

FEDERAL EXPRESS CORP. won't begin flying packages to Japan until May. But even before opening its se

James Joyce was 25 years old and grubbing for pennies as a Berlitz language teacher in Trieste when

EDI Involves New TerminologyYour EDI Exchange column of Jan. 7 stating the 10 things I thoug

At the dawn of the 1988 presidential campaign, the crash of stock markets worldwide is a grim remind

IT'S ALL OVER but the formal vote: With President Reagan's endorsement finally in hand, the director

This city's chief industry is the creation of policies and programs for the rest of the nation. Occa

Millions of older Americans will soon be forced to pay more for their Medicare benefits when Congres

THE GOOD NEWS is that the European Community managed to get through last weekend's crucial meeting o

Although it was the fiasco of the Seabrook nuclear plant that forced the Public Service Co. of New H

Even American Indian tribes are protesting the U.S.-Canadian trade accord. A Denver-based co

AFTER BARELY TWO MONTHS in charge of the Department of Transportation, Secretary James Burnley has a

The U.S. economy seems to be teetering on the brink of a consumer-led recession. Elsewhere in the wo

TESTING FOR DRUGS is one of the more abused personnel practices today. By holding that the governmen