Commentary

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

ALONGSIDE MOST TRANSPORTATION DISPUTES, the battle on the San Francisco waterfront is a horse of a d

WHEN IS A TAX INCREASE not a tax increase? When, as everyone knows, it is a revenue enhancement. Tim

The Reagan administration, now that the 1986 congressional elections are history, has decided to mak

Events over the past few months have prompted many Western journalists and businessmen to take a de

Spurred by the need to generate revenue on the federal level to fund budget deficits, worker adjustm

AMERICAN LABOR UNIONS haven't been having an easy time. Membership is declining. In industry after i

After years of hydrocarbon-fueled growth, during which this Central African state of 10 million inha

Germany and Japan have failed to pursue more expansionary economic policies for two reasons.

Much is being said about the levels of public and private debt. Some of the talk is in technical lan

NINE YEARS AGO, U.S. energy service companies sold $35 million in oil and gas equipment to the Sovie

When word first leaked out that Kakuei Tanaka, 68, had refused to see ruling party Secretary Genera

WILL THE HIGHWAY BILL falter again this year, as it did last year, over the issue of the 55 mph spee

After six years of advocating free trade, the great policy surprise of 1987 may be an embracing of t

Progress on political and economic reforms in China is likely to be frozen until the Communist Party

WHAT A WONDERFUL STORY. According to an article in American Heritage magazine, Winston Churchill dro

I have been warned that the part of London in which I live is in danger of becoming, in terms of der

''THE MALTESE FALCON," with Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor, is the latest old movie to be subjected

LOST AMID THE COMMOTION about the plunging dollar and the U.S.-European Community trade scuffle is t

The rise of industrial robots is irresistible and irreversible. They are getting better and cheaper.

Figures about the international trade deficit, especially the deficit with Japan, are in the newspap

The last two years have been the worst ever for the international shipping fraternity , and there ar

IN "THE GUNS OF AUGUST," Barbara Tuchman tells how in 1914 a minor political incident in an small Ba

THERE'S GOOD NEWS on the trade front, right? Well, perhaps. The figures forDecember put the

In Dick Lawrence's excellent article (JofC, Jan. 12) highlighting the crucial role of the United St

If you call Van Doorn Ooms in Washington, a recorded voice comes on the line and repeats a couple of

AS A TELEVISION EVENT, which is how it must be evaluated, President Reagan's State of the Union add

Karl Otto Poehl, president of the Deutsche Bundesbank, has laid it on the line. Under relentless pre

THE PAPERWORK MOUNTAIN, like a newly formed volcano, is rising another few thousand feet. Within th

''The federal deficit is outrageous," President Reagan declared in his State of the Union address th

Gary Wills' book, "Reagan's America: Innocents at Home," was in print and on the way to bookstores

The corporate critics trying to follow the story line in the Great Tax Reform Act of 1986 are pannin

In a seedy office in a rundown, second-floor walk-up here, the computer software business appears to

Moonlighting appears to be more widespread in Denmark than ever before, despite efforts by the tax a

The link between food supply and political stability is as old as history. Egyptian pharaohs stored

THE STRIKE ON THE Long Island Rail Road, the nation's biggest commuter rail line, hardly looms large

JAPAN'S DECISION TO ABANDON, if only by a tiny fraction, its policy of limiting its defense budget t

WE HAVE GENERALLY HIGH REGARD for Secretary of the Treasury James A. Baker III. But when he begs us,

Foreign investors have become a powerful influence in the U.S. money and capital markets. Du

It was a quiet week here in Washington. Some of the relative stillness was due to the two sn