Commentary

"Dismayed but not particularly surprised" probably best sums up the mood of Britain's shipowners aft

It may be easier to understand how an airplane flies than how an airline markets its service.

RUSSIA'S political future will be influenced heavily by Sunday's parliamentary elections. But the re

For at least two years, the National Cancer Institute has been telling Americans to eat five serving

THE FEDERAL REGISTER, America's bureaucratic bible, is a repository of mangled English. But the Brit

EUROPEAN INDUSTRIALISTS are proposing some sensible solutions for the continent's high unemployment.

A GATT WORLD TRADE deal is at hand. After seven years of slow torture, the outline of a final plan t

Is President Clinton trying to have it both ways? Can he simultaneously be a friend of labor and of

The Clinton administration's export control bureaucracy - chiefly the State, Defense and Commerce de

The No. 2 computer corporation lays off 5,000 workers. The leader of "the big three" automakers down

IF THE GOVERNMENT orders companies and workers to pay specified sums of money to politically appoint

LYING TO A JUDGE is a serious offense, but should a worker lose his federal labor rights because of

END THE MARITIME SUBSIDIESYour Washington bureau chief, Tom Connors, may be right that the 3

Forty-eight hours after proclaiming that creation of a North American trade bloc, as outlined in the

Interactive, Shminteractive. No, no Luddism here. Or is it Ludditism? Who knows? Turns out t

THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY is taking some much-needed steps to streamline its maze of regul

A RUSSIAN ELECTORAL COMMISSION cleared the way Wednesday for the nation's Communist Party toparticip

With the North American Free Trade Agreement now past the Congress, a new debate begins: How can the

America's trade deficit with Japan alarms economists and angers politicians. During the first half o

Social Security is the Molotov cocktail of the 1990s. Open a conversationalwindow, toss it i

The American economy is at a turning point, on its way to reclaiming its historical role as the most

INDEPENDENT TRUCKERS struck the country last month, frustrated and angry over rising fuel prices. Bu

THE TRANSPORTATION Research Board, which provides a scientific and technical forum for discussing tr

Despite President Clinton's easier-than-expected victory in the fight over the North American Free T

It's a sight even this newspaper, with its avid interest in floating objects, would have found amazi

It's more than a little ironic that as Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan engages in a hammer a

The North American Free Trade Agreement is facing yet another peril, this timefrom Canada's

LAST WEEK'S SHOWDOWN between American Airlines and its flight attendants left many holiday travelers

REMEMBERING JAY O'BRIENAn error in your Nov. 1, "On the Move" article about the American Ass

The same business groups that unanimously supported the North American Free Trade Agreement are thre

BUSY HOLIDAY weekends can be a deadly time for motorists. That's especially true when drivers choose

EUROPE'S lingering recession is forcing a debate on a potentially explosive topic: Are restrictive l

As President Clinton considers his victories on the North American Free Trade Agreement and at the A

The British are at it again. After stalling negotiations with the United States to liberalize and ex

Those who worry about paperwork and regulatory overload may have felt some optimism of late.

BILL CLINTON TO THE RESCUE. With the busiest travel days of the year fast approaching, Mr. Clinton M

To get tickets to a University of Nebraska football game, you need a brother- in-law who is the coac

On New Years' Day, Rudolph W. Giuliani will become mayor of New York City, the first Republican in a

The yen's surge from an exchange value of 125 to nearly 100 to the dollar last summer (it has fallen

NEARLY 10 YEARS after it started, the trucking undercharge crisis is coming to a close. Last week, C