Commentary

On television newsreels and in the official reports of the World Bank, Africa is always portrayed as

WHAT A DIFFERENCE two weeks make! When the leaders of the seven largest market economies met in Veni

Dumping, the Senate Committee on Finance has informed us, is one of the "most pernicious practices

THE TWO AILING GIANTS of the bus business, Greyhound Lines Inc. and Trailways Corp., are proposing t

ON ATLANTA'S PEACHTREE STREET, yet another new office tower has sprouted amid the dogwoods. With a h

The core functions of government are frequently cited in the extensive list of programs that compri

Wall Street has a head start on its traditional summer rally. The stock market has posted a new hig

As rains lashed southern Britain last week and temperatures struggled to reach 60 degrees it could o

Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, has said that "a battle of monumental proportion is brewing over Alaska'

Comments on Rand Were OffensiveIt is not unusual to discuss a person like Mr. Greenspan in t

CONGRESS, AN AMAZINGLY accurate weather vane, has tested the winds and seen that they are blowing co

THE BIG TRADE BILL the Senate is due to take up this week contains a few sleepers. One provi

If you are reading this among a batch of photo-copied news clips put together by your public relatio

It has been over two years since the dollar began its long decline from peak levels, yet the long-aw

THE AIRLINE BATTLE for market share through fare cuts seems to be over, at least for the time being.

ONCE AGAIN, BRAZIL'S President Jose Sarney has a plan. Prices have been frozen. Automatic wage index

On Wednesday, the Reagan administration transmitted to the Congress proposed legislation that will m

Debate on the Senate floor next week will offer a key to the prospects of a major trade law during t

RAIDERS, JUNK BONDS AND GREENMAIL have America agog. In direct response to widespread public alarm o

A private organization recruits and equips a guerrilla force in the United States for an expedition

OZONE IS IN. Amid fears that widely used chemicals are rapidly destroying the ozone layer that shiel

The way a colleague tells it, severe winter weather had left his subdivision in the Virginia suburbs

The Venice summit meeting turned out, as was widely predicted, to be a non- event, at least in the e

The 1987 Omnibus Trade Bill has earned the moniker of the Japanese Trade Bill. But the version passe

PERHAPS IT WAS A BAD DAY at the office, or maybe just a slip of the tongue. Whatever the case, Richa

The White House laid down a heavy smoke screen in advance of the economic summit meeting in Venice d

THE FUEL CRISIS of the 1970s has been blamed for a loss of tempers and jobs. Now, Harvard University

Rep. Steven Solarz, D-N.Y., is casting his net ever farther into troubled waters. It is another depa

A COMMITTEE OF THE House of Representatives has cleared a bill that would sharply curtail use of the

It isn't nice to call it jawboning, so all the parties participating in last week's Venice summit re

The U.S. government is finally standing tall in the world, insisting that our trading partners open

Margaret Thatcher's historic hat-trick election victory is likely to have a deep impact on British p

THIS WAS THE YEAR for Democrats to show that they have the stuff to govern. But if their attempts to

Cost Not a Factor In Bill's RejectionUnder the headline, "VA Benefits Opposed for Wartime Sa

IN 1981, THE FEDERAL Aviation Administration received an opportunity almost any employer would envy.

THE WIDELY DERIDED Venice Economic Summit proved full of surprises. The meeting may well turn out to

Who could have predicted that the seven leaders at this just-completed summit would have spent nearl

THE AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION'S leadership is more optimistic about its prospects to purchase Alle

IT'S ALWAYS BEEN the case in this country that when things aren't going well, we blame somebody else

"Washington is a city full of yellow dog Democrats," the statuesque blonde said, and then emphasized