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Accuracy Questioned On Embassy StoryI recently was shown a copy of your article of Aug. 21,

The most-favored-nation principle has been at the center of U.S. trade policy and the General Agreem

Uncle Sam is heading out to the farm with a "Protect the Environment" cap on his head and a stack of

IN WHAT MAY BE its last attempt to implement its domestic economic agenda, the Reagan administration

Since the trade deficit scare began, many false notions have crept into our national economic debate

AS MALPRACTICE INSURANCE premiums around the country have multiplied, so have the efforts of state

There is something uncomfortably fitting in the match-up of Judge Robert Bork as a Supreme Court nom

World financial markets will focus on Washington this weekend, as the annual meetings of the World B

LAST YEAR, all the talk on Wall Street was of the triple witching hours, which occur once every thre

Due to an typographical error on this page yesterday, the meaning of the concluding paragraph in the

Twenty years ago, President John F. Kennedy called world trade a rising tide lifting all boats. Unfo

What's to be done with the dragons of Asia, whose dynamic economies are perceived to be sapping the

Throughout our history, governmental support to U.S. shipbuilders and owners has had a more or less

THE INTERNATIONAL PROTOCOL limiting production of chlorofluorocarbons, signed last week by 24 countr

East German leader Erich Honecker's historic journey across the border to West Germany produced a pr

Energy Plan Editorial Held Right on TargetYour editorial calling for a national energy plan

IMPORT QUOTAS have become major obstacles to trade. Roughly 18 percent of U.S. imports came in under

THE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE UNIONS and the American Civil Liberties Union are up in arms against a decis

On the complex and contentious issue of how to reduce the staggering U.S. trade deficit, everyone se

The war between Iran and Iraq has been going on for more than seven years. When it ends, and I would

THE UNENDING FANTASY of military dictators is that they can put the world to rights. Troubled by the

THE DELAY IN NAMING a new transportation secretary to replace Elizabeth Hanford Dole is being linked

YESTERDAY, THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE published on this page an article by Takako Doi, chairwoman of th

THE RAILROAD RETIREMENT SYSTEM is a mess, a mess that is bound to get worse before it gets better.

The Russians are having trouble with their minorities. The Latvians are protesting publicly

Energy Plan Gets Partial ApprovalThe Journal of Commerce's Aug. 24 editorial "Time for an En

Over the last century, and particularly since World War II, the United States was the unequaled cham

Mexico is poised at a historic juncture. It must choose between a globally competitive economy of th

Some two years had passed since the end of that inferno, the Pacific War. I was then a girl in my mi

Two familiar objects - the taxicab and the telephone - may offer important keys to the nature of the

IDEAS ABOUT HOW to increase the government's revenues are flying thick and fast in Washington. One t

CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER BRIAN MULRONEY says there are many important stumbling blocks." U.S. Treasur

C. William Verity Jr., the presumed next secretary of commerce, said last week that Congress this ye

ELIZABETH DOLE, who announced her resignation as secretary of transportation Monday, served in that

As a way of reducing the persistently large federal budget deficit, Congress is considering sizable

The Commerce Department reported last week that the U.S. trade deficit rose to a record $16.5 billio

Americans have often been accused, perhaps justly, of having a short attention span and an even shor

Mikhail Gorbachev's economic reforms have run into a bit of a problem. Increasing labor productivity

When the leaders of East and West Germany shook hands in Bonn last week, the inevitable topic of reu

Elsewhere on this page, John H. Makin cogently argues the case for reducing expenditures on governme