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Fleet Analysis Missed the MarkThe Journal of Commerce has a long and deservedly fine reputat

IT'S HARD TO VIEW what is happening to the dollar as other than part of a coordinated Reagan adminis

THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE Federal Aviation Administration, Donald D. Engen, announced last week he w

Warning: Exporting can be hazardous to your mental health. In response to the nation's stagg

In his spring budget presentation last Tuesday Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson painted a ro

French-speaking Africa no longer is an unknown continent for U.S. business. Although this gr

ONE PLACE THE REAGAN administration wants no penny pinching is in the budget for the Internal Revenu

Clarifying the Record On Potato TradeI read with some disbelief your editorial (JofC, March

THERE IS NO coordinated coal export policy in the Reagan administration and no high-level focal poi

THE IDEA OF GIVING the president authority to veto individual line items in spending bills has been

Comedian Bill Cosby in his latest book on Fatherhood" says a telltale sign that children are becomin

An interesting and fairly rare market event occurred as Inco and Owens- Illinois were replaced in th

CONGRESS WILL TAKE another look this year at how much freedom railroads should have to raise or low

EVEN AS WE WERE WARNING against its plans for data base snooping, the Reagan administration backed d

What's in a name? Specifically, what's in a byline? In eight years at the Journal of Commerc

Nobody seems ready to divulge the full facts about a new east-west situation full of paradox and per

The Council of the Americas has released another report on how the men in the business trenches of d

THE INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S Association without Teddy Gleason in charge? For most of the shipp

IT'S 19 MONTHS until next year's presidential election, if anyone in Washington needed reminding, an

The world's astronomers have a new fixation, an event that happened a long time ago out in space but

Let there be no misunderstanding of the true meaning of free enterprise. It does not mean being sin

EVER WONDER WHY THINGS seem so mixed up? By more than six to one, Americans say their own personal

THE FAIRCHILD-FUJITSU affair raises questions about the direction of U.S. trade policy. Foremost is:

Is the competitiveness fever perverting academic values by putting money- making industrial goals ah

If Massachusetts nuclear power groupies didn't get their daily fill of the Seabrook nuclear power pl

Evidence of the heavy toll the yen's sharp appreciation since the autumn of 1985 is taking on Japan'

WHO WILL POLICE THE POLICEMEN? One of Vice Admiral John M. Poindexter's final acts as national secur

Propagating the Myth Of Tort ExplosionI was saddened to read that The Journal of Commerce is

CAN A FOOLPROOF DRUG and alcohol test be devised? That, it seems to us, is the only question involve

A FAMILIAR QUESTION - Why doesn't the United States have a maritime policy? - was heard during the H

Phil Caldwell is the kind of person who disappears in a crowd. His gray suits match his gray hair an

Your editorial, "Give Amtrak Away," (JofC, March 4) correctly identifies our association as one of t

IF A BOONDOGGLE is "any project on which government funds are wasted" (Safire's Political Dictionary

Children play with video games while their parents doze on deck. Teen-agers watch a film in the cin

Over the last six years, there has been no affirmative U.S. trade policy. Rather than a government p

SLOWLY, ALMOST IMPERCEPTIVELY, the Office of the United States Trade Representative has begun to fle

IS THERE A CHANCE there will be no budget agreement this year? Despite suggestions by many that the

Bill Bradley, the senior U.S. senator from New Jersey, came by to visit us in our offices on Wall S

COLLEGE STUDENTS, FARMERS, veterans, small businessmen and other borrowersfrom the federal g

Today, we face stiff competition from abroad in almost all of our industrial sectors. Although limit