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IMPORTANT OFFICIALS from around the world were on hand in Geneva Thursday as the United Nations Conf

As the Senate debates far-reaching new trade legislation, it's time to consider the potential costs

THE HEARTBEAT OF AMERICA, today's Chevrolet, General Motors Corp.'s catchy advertising slogan, is cl

N-o-w, s-e-n-a-t-o-r, the witness would begin in a slow, sad drone. Next came extravagant praise for

Don Richards Stephens, you could say, is about to take San Francisco banking back to its roots.<

GROWING XENOPHOBIA has been a hallmark of the rapid transition of the United States from the world's

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is to be congratulated for maintaining the illusio

EVERYBODY WANTS TO CUT the federal budget deficit. But now, even the modest deficit-cutting effort C

The economy was in remarkably good shape at midyear - substantially stronger than the consensus esti

WHEN THE HISTORY BOOKS are written, a coherent and realistic policy toward foreign trade will not be

All talk and no action is the way some describe Japan's approach to its exploding trade advantage ov

WE'RE ALL FOR CONSUMER protection, but we admit to more than a little puzzlement about Washington's

The backwash from the scandal involving former Reagan aide Michael Deaver's lobbying efforts for Can

Had he understood Margaret Thatcher better, French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac would have bitten h

American Request Aims to Aid TravelerYour editorial (May 22) concluding that American Airlin

THE SENATE IS RIGHTLY ANGERED that Japanese and Norwegian companies sold the Soviet Union equipment

PRESIDENT REAGAN'S nomination of Robert Bork to the vacant seat on the Supreme Court puts the Ameri

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION POLITICS is focusing greatly on economic issues, as Democrats and President Re

The steel industry is an industry in crisis. Steel producers need to streamline and modernize but co

If Yung-Fa Chang could live his life over again, he would spend his days far and away from the conta

They are talking about raising the Monitor, the Union ironclad that lies on the bottom off Cape Hatt

Jones Act Measure Is Not ProtectionistThis letter is in response to your editorial entitled,

Canada has the most to gain from free trade with the United States, but protectionist sentiment pers

THE COMMUTER AIRLINE INDUSTRY has demonstrated notable improvements in safety in recent years. But t

LET'S SEE. OLYMPIC ADVERTISING . . . Olympic Brokerage . . . Olympic Communications . . . Olympic D

If opinion polls were votes and a federal election were held today, you would have to color Canada p

BOND MARKETS MAY BE unpredictable, but they can always be counted on for a fast reaction. No sooner

THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION'S decision Wednesday not to reopen hearings on the proposed merge

Preventing the circumvention of penalties imposed for unfair trading practices has posed a difficult

The eminent philosopher Casey Stengel taught us that: "They say you can't do it; but sometimes it do

There are three major barriers to a sustained improvement in security prices in the United States: (

AS THE SAYING GOES, He who pays the piper calls the tune. For years, U.S. defense contractors have b

BY EASING RESTRICTIONS on the employment of Mexican farm workers in the United States, the U.S. Imm

Many Russians doubt that Mikhail Gorbachev's program of perestroika, or economic restructuring, will

A few of Japan's most prominent financial leaders are now privately expressing worries about the sha

In hearings earlier this year, some members of the Senate Finance Committee expressed the feeling th

Jacques Santer, the prime minister of Luxembourg, can be excused for feeling smug this week as the l

THE RECENT DEATHS of two of the United States' most prominent economists, Walter W. Heller and Arth

US Training Program In Panama DecriedWhat a wonderful country we live in! In a recent articl