Commentary

GERMANY, facing mounting costs for integrating its eastern states, is considering a radical step: se

In a ceremony rich in unintended symbolism, President Clinton signed his first legislation into law

As the Democrats take charge of trade policy, they are asking an important question: Do U.S. trading

FOR COMPREHENSIVE MARITIME REFORMSI share the desire expressed by Mrs. Nicholas Tentas of th

President Clinton should forget the example set by his predecessors during the last three decades an

As stories go, this one seemed fairly standard. A company looking to improve productivity shuts down

"CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES" are enjoying a heyday in Washington. Freed of the ideological bonds

BILL CLINTON's trial balloon on freezing Social Security cost of living increases appears to have fi

Congress has yet to display the "new look" that seemed likely with the election of a host of freshme

A gasoline tax is now being promoted by many as a way of reducing the deficit, expanding infrastruct

When a person gets sick, he or she wants to see a doctor - not necessarily a cardiologist or a gastr

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY'S battered Exchange Rate Mechanism was put to another perilous test in recent

LOOMING SHORTFALLS in Social Security aren't confined to the United States. In France, and elsewhere

BRITISH AIRWAYS may not know it, but its proposed deal with USAir is in trouble. The big U.S

What do you do if your advisers grimly stare across the table and tell you what you are about to do

Six months into the presidency of free market conservative Sixto Duran, Ecuador has begun to break w

The first shot in the Great Steel War of 1993 was fired in Washington last week. The Commerc

WHY WE DON'T NEED OIL IMPORT FEESThe Jan. 29 op-ed article by Eugene L. Ames Jr., promoting

To recoin a once-popular Jane Ace line (she of radio's Easy Aces - surely, you remember), "Why, you

"Clintonomics," Bill Clinton's plan to spur growth through public investment, is about to become a r

SOCIAL SECURITY is widely regarded as the "third rail" of politics: Touch it and you die. The Clinto

THE NORTH AMERICAN free-trade agreement is opening most industries to freer trade and investment, bu

In an effort to connect his presidential campaign with ordinary Americans, President Bill Clinton fr

FOR THE INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE who has everything, computer scientists have developed a new aid: a

The Yangtze Optical Fibre Cable Company, a Sino-Dutch joint venture in Wuhan, has a worry. Right now

BILL CLINTON wants to honor his campaign promises, but consumers wouldn't mind a bit if he forgets a

For the full year 1992, the number of wage and salary workers in the United States rose by almost ex

AMERICA'S RAILROADS, which not long ago were struggling, have rebounded, and that includes Amtrak.

Europe's monetary officials were glad to see 1992 end. The British pound, Portuguese escudo, Irish p

Environmentalists may not have won as much of a publicity coup as they had hoped for after the Braer

While the Dallas Cowboys passed their way to victory in Super Bowl XXVII, I bought the wrong puts an

NEXT TIME you're at an international airport, compare the check-in lines for a U.S. airline's overse

DUMPING LAWS are the weapon of choice for the world's steel-trading nations. On Friday, Japa

SEARS . . . BOEING . . . IBM . . . Every week brings more grim news of layoffs for tens of thousands

Let's agree, for starters, that: - Hillary Rodham Clinton is smart.- Hillary Rodham Clinton

It takes new eyes to see and new words to express what's happening at the Nuclear Regulatory Commiss

U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor is nearing decisions on who will be his top deputies, and cu

MEXICO'S ECONOMIC REBIRTH during the last five years is only half of its success story. Along with r

Choice. A simple word, with powerful meaning. People have appropriated it for ages. A choice, not an

President Clinton killed Dan Quayle's Council on Competitiveness last week. Still, the underlying ex