Commentary

SOME ALARMING THINGS have been reported recently about ozone, the protective layer of gas that shiel

Malcom McLean is best known among business people for revolutionizing the general cargo shipping ind

THERE IS A NEW GAME in town, as good as a day at the races. It's watching a key vote, like that in t

HUNTERDON COUNTY, in western New Jersey, wants help. Fully 24 percent of all the accidents on Hunter

Radio Days, Woody Allen's nostalgic recreation of what life was like when he was growing up in the 1

Ladies and gentleman. As a high point of this show, we will not make a dove disappear. Too simple. R

Bridge Inspections: Fewer Can Be BetterTwo days after the collapse of the Schoharie Creek br

THE RESIGNATION LAST WEEK of one of the railroad industry's most prominent chief executives sheds so

ON A RECENT TRIP through Washington's National Airport, a traveler stopped to ask an airline employe

John G. Bowes and John N. Rosekrans Jr. have been a business team since high school when they first

The traveler to the Soviet Union these days is likely to find some pleasant surprises. One i

What did the president know and when did he know it? The question, certainly unfairly, may p

TEDDY GLEASON, whose favorite device for turning aside reporters' questions was the familiar catch-p

In recent years I have enjoyed reading the catchy captions on news releases emanating from the House

THERE WILL BE NO lack of bills introduced in this Congress designed to improve the U.S.-flag share o

The dollar crisis is deepening. Bond prices are dropping to sharply lower levels. Interest rates on

Emerging from the dark isolation of Franco's rule, Spain has become one of Europe's most vibrant nat

Tax on Gasoline Not the AnswerYour editorial Rosty Buys the "Gas Tax (JofC March 26) says th

SINCE 1980, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S reporting of the nation's trade statistics has been a very peculia

There is a certain irony in Ivan Boesky and Guinness, the international beer and liquor company invo

IT'S NO SURPRISE that Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's sales tax plan was rejected by the

In the last 15 years much has changed in India and much remains the same. The overall picture is bri

AN ENGLISH COUPLE are the parents of two children, both products of eggs fertilized with sperm in a

I was talking with my Journal of Commerce colleague Larry Kaufman about the state of the railroad in

Shirley Williams, the British politician, listening recently to a group of bankers was reminded of a

A SCHOOL OF THOUGHT here holds that little progress will be made soon to knock down the legal and ad

THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT is making a big mistake. Under the reputedly pragmatic James A. Bake

THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, fresh from its Form W-4 disaster, is determined to regard the taxpayer

It's good to know that the broadcast writers and their bosses are getting together again. I

Not in more than a decade has a member of Congress reaped such publicity from a trade proposal as ha

THE DECISION BY INTERIOR Secretary Donald Hodel to recommend opening the 1.5 million acre Coastal Pl

Through January of this year, creditor governments, multilateral financial institutions and, to a le

How good were the good old days? I've recently come across two items that in different ways

This letter responds to an article entitled "Second Evergreen Accident in Two Weeks Wrecks Crane" ap

AS LONG AS A CENTURY AGO, sailors told of seeing an ominous apparition of a full-rigged ship near th

OLD-AGE PENSIONERS, who receive Social Security checks, have been urged in recent years to have the

SOME SAY IT'S TACKY to get married in Las Vegas, but for Lorraine and Robert Page the affair was ent

Last Friday President Reagan finally imposed strong trade sanctions against Japan in an attempt to p

The role that trade played in the 1986 elections and what impact, if any, it will have in the 1988

Financial markets were buffeted last week by an unusual crop of spurious economic statistics. Accord