Commentary

A CADRE OF FREE MARKET ENTHUSIASTS meets in Washington today to launch what has become an annual ca

About this time every year, the Congressional Budget Office presents the House and Senate budget com

Six years after the second oil shock, Saudi Arabia and the other wealthy Arab kingdoms along the Per

Wanted: One senior executive to oversee the most exciting civil engineering project of the century.<

THE ENERGY BUSINESS HAS BECOME increasingly competitive over the past few years. If you don't believ

GUY F. TOZZOLI IS RETIRING from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey after 40 years with th

My calculator must need new batteries; these figures just don't make sense. With these words Miss Na

On the same day OPEC announced it would cut crude oil production and raise prices to $18 a barrel, a

ONE CALL FOR THE WHOLE HAUL. That's how Hays T. Watkins, chairman and chief executive officer of CSX

I knew I was back home in San Francisco when driving into the city from the airport along Junipero S

HOW TOUGH ARE THE JAPANESE when it comes to trade negotiations? To hear Glen S. Fukushima tell it,

''We have to forge our future, instead of waiting for it to happen," the soft-spoken, lightly bearde

IS THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION really committed to helping U.S. exporters? Some businessmen have doubt

AT THE HEART OF THE GLOBAL trend toward protectionism is the issue of jobs. For a politician, a prot

As part of its ongoing but thus far relatively ineffectual efforts to defend its sovereignty in the

Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III and Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker have for some time b

OH, THOSE SLY FELLOWS, your congressman and mine. It was bad enough when they failed to knock down t

It's no contest when the colossal comes up against the merely sensible on the political playing fiel

The global grain situation is beginning to rebound, as evidenced by increased import demand by China

ONE CAN ONLY APPLAUD the cooperative effort by the Maryland Port Administration and the Internationa

THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY CAN WORK in a deregulated environment or a totally regulated one, but not in so

Why doesn't the United States export more? The answer is complicated but can be summarized along the

In a sense, the cargo preference laws have never been stronger. The decisions of the U.S. District

When the Iran arms-contra aid scandal first began making headlines in November, many experienced Was

Arms Control Needed For Free Farm TradeThe special report "Crisis in Farm Trade," (JofC, Jan

DON'T SAY U.S. FARMERS aren't ingenious. Faced with the Reagan administration's determination to hol

WE MUST DEMAND MORE OF OURSELVES and our children, President Reagan told the nation in his State of

Years ago, I read a book that outlined a highly successful method of forecasting the stock market.

The major reshuffle of the Greek government is seen in Athens as confirmation that Prime Minister An

Preference cargo is today vitally important to the U.S. Merchant Marine. In 1985, Military Sealift C

The annals of self-injurious fanaticism have now been enriched by an expert account of the Pentagon'

ECONOMISTS' FORECASTS have gotten systematically worse over the years, right? Not at all, says Vict

Britain's shipowners and port operators can be excused for feeling slightly paranoid after being eng

Can a nation call itself a superpower if it does not have a merchant marine? The United States seems

A LEADING MARITIME FIGURE the other day addressed the issue of the change occuring in the shipping

THE MILLION-MEMBER ARMY of newspaper carriers is changing, the American Newspaper Publishers Associa

Half the walls in Thomas B. Crowley's spacious office on the 48th floor of 101 California St. are co

What is this recent reform jazz all about? Can the Soviet Union catch up with the United States?

DON'T DO AS I DO, do as I say. The United States often has lectured its European trading partners an

BATTLES LINES are being drawn once again over taxing imported oil to raise income and help lift a de