Commentary

The contrast on the front page of an Argentine daily newspaper was startling. On one side, Nicholas

In the early evening of Aug. 6, Al Gore cast the deciding vote for Bill Clinton's budget, which will

The federal government does at least one thing well: It generates red tape. In fact, the government

The packet containing the details of my college class' 25-year reunion arrived at my home last week,

WHILE MULTILATERAL trade talks drag on, regional blocs are gathering strength, particularly in the e

WHAT IS 'EFFECTIVE US CONTROL' OF SHIPS?Phillip Loree's Aug. 12 letter, "Reflagging US Ships

WHEN GOVERNMENT can't make a tough choice, it names a commission. It should surprise no one, then, t

The Clinton administration has promised to place more emphasis on respect for labor rights by U.S. t

With some 35 million people out of work in the industrialized nations, unemployment is widely consid

Japan's opposition to U.S. calls for managed trade will be seen as mere Kabuki posturing unless Toky

PRESIDENT CLINTON held up a copy of Al Gore's "reinventing government" report Tuesday and twice said

Yields on long-term Treasury bonds finally broke through the magic 6 percent barrier last week. The

THE HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM is nothing if not complex, with a welter of payors, insurers and providers.

The Clinton administration proudly released its mid-session review of the fiscal year 1994federal bu

The container shipping trades may soon be embroiled in a fresh fight with the European Commission am

UNDER PRESSURE from their government, Japanese companies are gradually dismantling their "keiretsu"

NORTHEASTERN STATES are fighting a dirty battle over clean air. Several states in the region

COFFEE PRODUCERS' PLAN IS FAIRYour Aug. 16 editorial, "Hill of Beans," (Page 8A) was

WASHINGTON AND BEIJING are forever threatening to slam one another with trade sanctions. At the end

Peter Sutherland, the new director general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, is casting

YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW IT from the daily traffic reports, but trucking has never been safer. Truck-rel

Two recent developments - AT&T's takeover of McCaw Cellular and a federal court ruling allowing Bell

Bill Clinton's drive to tame health-care costs must contend with a perverse statistical omen fresh o

William Bywater, president of the International Union of Electronic Electrical Salaried Machine & Fu

NEEDED: A DEBATE ON MARITIME POLICYI'd like to congratulate Don Becker for his Aug. 18 "Publ

A battle is shaping up in the House over a Senate-passed measure that would require risk and cost an

GERMAN CHANCELLOR Helmut Kohl's irresponsible support of French efforts to scrap a critical U.S.-Eur

CALIFORNIA lawmakers are proposing a compromise in a decades-long dispute with Britain over the way

IT'S TWO STEPS FORWARD, one back, in drawn-out reconciliation efforts between China and Taiwan.<

The vast, ponderous machinery of federal spending ground to a halt this summer for the first time in

On a trip to Vietnam last month, an associate and I had dinner our first night at Le Beaulieu, an el

MONOPOLY HAS ITS PRIVILEGES. It also has responsibilities, as the Postal RateCommission remi

Eight years ago, Intel Japan K.K. President William O. Howe was on a sales call in Nagoya trying to

FOR A HINT of things to come in the U.S. Social Security system, consider new pension laws enacted l

ROMANIA DESERVES MFN STATUS NOWMilan Ruzicka's recent arguments against granting most-favore

The French Mediterranean city of Marseilles is making headlines this summer for all the wrong reason

GIVE AL GORE CREDIT. The vice president's government reform commission could have been another timid

The environmental and labor side agreements to the North American free-trade agreement should be ana

U.S. COMPUTER AND SEMICONDUCTOR companies got a small break last week from the Commerce Department.

IS MEXICO'S LIMITED DEMOCRACY reason enough to hold up the North American free-trade agreement?<