Commentary

TUG, BARGE INDUSTRY HAS GOOD RECORDMany of us who are responsible for tugs, barges and the c

FRAUDULENT "get rich quick" schemes that prey on unsophisticated investors are a widespread problem

President Clinton's State of the Union address highlighted many positive developments, such as econo

THE ARCTIC COLD FRONT that froze much of the nation last week tested everyone's mettle, but none mor

Last Friday, as members of the Liberal Democratic Party emerged from Upper House committee meetings,

Economic growth surged during the final three months of 1993. Preliminary data suggest the gain in g

While the ground shook in Los Angeles last week, a different kind of quake rocked Moscow. The resign

SECURITY IS ALARMINGLY LAX at nuclear weapons sites in Russia and other former Soviet republics, acc

In most developing nations, strong economic growth, a dramatic deceleration in inflation and a boom

If ever proof were needed that the real crisis facing shipping is the quality of the people in the i

THE BEST CURE for any disease is prevention. This month's 600,000-gallon oil barge spill in Puerto R

When I first visited this South American country in 1984, I was a 27-year-old newly minted foreign c

In January, 'tis the season to be grumpy. And all this trendy talk about ''the information superhigh

In 1989, Peronist populist Carlos Saul Menem was elected president of Argentina amidst 5,000 percent

The agency that insures U.S. foreign investment is weighing the idea of two new equity funds to gene

FIFTY-FIVE YEARS ON, Winston Churchill's pithy description of Russia - "a riddle wrapped in a myster

THE TIMING couldn't have been worse for Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen's weekend stopover in Tokyo

Eastern Europe is a different place today from what it was three or so years ago when the Iron Curta

The North American Free Trade Agreement is now the law of the land and the new rules of the General

THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION has spent nearly a year now looking for ways to improve air travel. Among

ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CHANGE in China promise a better future for the country, but the turmoil is h

Politicians and the public are recoiling at revelations of government- sponsored nuclear experiments

IN CASE ANYONE MISSED IT, Federal Express Corp. offered a startling reminder last month of how state

EUROPE'S TRAIN SYSTEM has a lot going for it: The trains go everywhere, generally stick to a schedul

Amid the drone of health-care reform, the Whitewater uproar, Sen. Packwood's travails and other Wash

The Clinton administration's threatened retaliation against China's alleged transshipment of textile

THE USES OF FILED TRUCK TARIFFSHis high level of hostility aside, William Tucker's Jan. 6 le

THE UNITED STATES and China avoided another potential trade war Monday, this time over Beijing's clo

EARTHQUAKES are one of nature's most terrifying acts. Imagine waking up in a building shaking violen

A WEAK CASE FOR ANTITRUST CHARGES I doubt very much much that the U.S. Customs Brokers at th

The passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the completion of the Uruguay Round of wo

Until recently, whenever I strolled among the luxury shops of Queens Road or visited friends in thei

WHERE THE ICC IS _ AND ISN'T - NEEDEDDan O'Neal's Jan. 4 letter regarding the current regula

THE 1990-1991 RECESSION was grim for most workers, but it came as a particular shock to white-collar

THE UNITED STATES sells plenty of things to other countries, but no export has been more popular tha

The figures make grim reading: Gross domestic product down 12 percent in 1993, output down 29 percen

It would be hard to find two public figures more dissimilar than Al Gore and Dan Quayle. Mr. Quayle,

When Congress comes back on Jan. 25, it will immediately plunge into the madcap pace that propels sc

AN IMPORTANT ASPECT of President Clinton's health-care plan is its effect on competitiveness - the a

After months in gestation, a federal retraining reform may soon be delivered. ''I intend to ask Cong