Commentary

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV'S impressive program of economic and political reform poses a majorforeign policy

What is a worse disease than AIDS? Confidentiality. Man one day will undoubtedly find a cure for AID

Dole: GOP Race Wide Open WASHINGTON BUREAUVICE PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH may still enjoy a lead

Those who favor reforming the international monetary system often argue that a return to fixed excha

JAMES MILLER, THE PRESIDENT'S budget director, drinks from a coffee mug labeled Boss," with a list o

DEREGULATING NATURAL GAS has proven to be one of the trickiest undertakings of the Reagan administra

FINANCIALLY STRAPPED states are endlessly creative when it comes to raising revenue. Business taxes

COMPETITIVENESS, LIKE MOTHERHOOD and apple pie, is hard to be against. Judged by the words they use,

This is a story about Ensign and later Lieutenant Donald Pretzel, USNR. That's not his real name, bu

The Uruguay Round of trade talks under way in Geneva will be vastly differentfrom the previo

Unless Congress adopts a rational pro-competitive regulatory policy forfinancial services, t

ANYBODY CAN MAKE A MISTAKE, but the Department of Justice's admitted mistake in the General Dynamics

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

Postwar federal support for technological research often has left one critical research area an orph

''If you really want to do something and work hard enough, you can do it. Here in America, you have

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

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

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

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

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

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'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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