Commentary

TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA is a very big word, and according to J. Patrick Bradley and Robert J. Christian, i

Gorbachev Article Missed the PointDid my eyes deceive me or did I really read in "The Journa

The time has come to entertain the idea of restructuring the electric utility industry, because the

CHINA HAS JUST MADE KNOWN that its Great Wall credit card plans to merge with MasterCard Internation

New visa requirements for non-EC citizens imposed last year by France in an effort to curb the movem

One of the great virtues of a daily newspaper is the ability to add to or amend what you have writte

THERE'S A HOLE IN THE SKY as big as America. High above Antarctica, over the vast ice cap and snow-

IN OUR EDITORIAL the other day on railroad re-regulation (JofC, March 23) we said that having failed

The economic spasms of the health-care system now come with increasing frequency - such as:

President Reagan devoted his weekly radio broadcast last weekend to several budget reform proposals

NOT LONG AGO, a manager earning his age - $30,000 at age 30 - was said to be on the fast track. But

Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign against liquor has thrown Soviet statisticians for a loop. To offset th

CLEVER DAN ROSTENKOWSKI. The House Ways and Means Committee chairman knows too well that more revenu

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

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

There's something odd in women's stockings these days. Oh, sure, they are still putting legs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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