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The 100th Congress, we were told, was to be dedicated to countering unfair practices by our trading

Hormone Safety Issue Has Been AddressedYour editorial, "Hot Words on Hormones," which appear

Facing a nearly $170 billion trade deficit, the United States is searching for ways to get out from

THE FIASCO IN the financial markets this month has generated precious little in the way of optimism.

It's hard to believe, but Elmhurst, Queens, where I grew up, once was a place of large, stately tree

AS THE WAR on international shipping in the Persian Gulf continues, the United States has taken two

There may be a little of the Reagan luck left: In the last week the president saw the prospects for

CONGRESS AND THE ADMINISTRATION may not have agreed on the tune, but they both have the same dance s

As it meets in Beijing this week, the Chinese Communist Party Congress will reaffirm the change in t

The recent signing of a proposed U.S.-Canada free trade agreement has ignited a political storm of e

It may have started by the use of a four-letter word - the most emotion- charged of all such words.<

THE UNITED STATES and Japan are near agreement on opening up construction of the $8.5 billion Kansai

THE EXPLOSIVE GROWTH of the short-line railroad industry has been one of the economic mysteries of t

As Wall Street starts to clear the debris from the earthquake in stocks, agonizing reappraisals are

Do we need Shipping Act regulation and antitrust immunity for ports and terminals? Or could they fun

Once upon a time there were two clans, the Hatfields and the McKawas. The Hatfields, though

There is one indisputable reason why a new, comprehensive national trade policy must be put into pla

The four middle-of-the road parties that form the Swiss government emergedfrom the national

THE AFL-CIO HAS TAKEN one more step to unite the House of Labor. Thirty years after expelling the In

PRESIDENT REAGAN'S COMMISSION on Merchant Marine and Defense, appointed lastDecember to asse

Robert Brusca, chief economist at Nikko Securities Co. International in the Wall Street financial di

The U.S. Senate has begun its debate on the restructuring of Medicare to provide catastrophic health

THE NORWEGIAN POLICE REPORT of widespread export control violations by West European machine tool ma

THE U.S. DEPARTMENT of Transportation, an avid promoter of bigger airlines, has finally found a merg

SEVERAL THOUSAND unsettled trucking executives arrive in New York this week to take stock of their i

When George Bush surprised absolutely no one by announcing a week or two ago that he would be a cand

EVERY SO OFTEN, Washington's hucksters offer painless new remedies for budgetary ailments. The lates

Energy Independence Must Be US PriorityAs recent articles show, our nation's foreign policie

It is well known that the union movement in the United States has suffered a serious decline in memb

THE CROWDED NORTHEAST has little liking for nuclear power. Two completed nuclear generating stations

As we begin a new round of trade negotiations in Geneva, the political debate over U.S. agricultural

Are Alan Greenspan's first two months in office a sign of things to come? I hope not. Bond prices ha

AS EXTREME FREE-MARKET economic ideas have prospered in recent years, a new understanding of financi

OVER THE CENTURIES, seafarers in cramped shipboard quarters have followed a simple rule: When you're

Just before the tension began rising in the Persian Gulf late last week, the House Merchant Marine a

WHAT TO MAKE of Wall Street? No one can enjoy a nearly 30 percent drop in the market value o

Visitors from the United States or Western Europe, observing the lives of their Japanese counterpart

As President Reagan publicly takes credit for the record-breaking length of this economic expansion,

The global economy is teetering on the edge of financial panic this week. The murderous slump in sto

THE EUROPEAN COURT of Justice last week opened the way for the European Community to ban the use of