Commentary

The seemingly endless barrage of steel trade suits filed by the American steel industry will not sol

THE U.S. TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT broke new ground this fall when it offered a detailed proposal fo

IF YOU DISCOVERED a doctor had cheated on a medical exam, would you let him operate on you? Most peo

Independence is a difficult concept for Central Asia's former Soviet republics. Strugglingto define

The modern cinema often portrays the early 20th century as the gilded age of romance and comfortable

An influential think tank here is pushing a plan for three separate federal budgets that evokes memo

GERMANY'S PARLIAMENT, disgusted with rising deficits in the national health insurance system, took m

DEFENSE WORKERS are bracing for more bad news from the incoming administration. Bill Clinton said du

THE OLD SOVIET UNION died one year ago this month, and it's tempting to say Boris Yeltsin's reform p

As the Clinton administration assumes office with a pledge to expand U.S. markets overseas, it must

What insurance issues is Congress likely to address in the coming year? I will divide the subject in

Perhaps one of the most important things about the economic teach-in down in Little Rock is the way

IF YOU STILL THINK of Third World nations as sinkholes for Western aid, think again. For the first t

The trucking industry's freight bill undercharge crisis has had shippers in a state of near-panic fo

In the weeks before the election, more than 600 economists signed a petition supporting the candidac

IF PRODUCTIVITY WERE MEASURED in output of words, this week's economic ''summit" in Little Rock woul

BEEN CAR SHOPPING LATELY? If you have, you know air bags are big selling points. In fact, safety is

WARD AND HAJDU: NO FEUD HEREI feel I must respond to your Dec. 9 article, "Ward, Other Incum

Lots of dumb ideas surfaced at Bill Clinton's so-called economic summit. Apartfrom its name

Foreign trading firms are starting to look back fondly on the days when all it took to seal a deal i

REFORMERS SUFFERED a major setback this week in their fight to make Russia a free-market economy.

YOU CAN'T BLAME LYKES for trying. Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. has been working for years to fr

Any way one chooses to examine it, the massive trade agreement being produced by the negotiators in

"Oil - The Lifeblood of Modern Civilization. Tankers - The Lifeline of Oil Supply." That is

There's an easy way to clamp down on medical spending while providing high- quality care for all. Bu

The Clinton transition team is crafting a package of public investments in infrastructure, education

CLOSE TO 36 MILLION AMERICANS, 14.2 percent of the population, live below the poverty line. Boston M

BILL CLINTON'S televised economic conference in Little Rock has been criticized as a national gabfes

It has been exactly a year since Kiichi Miyazawa, Japan's veteran "insider politician," became prime

Despite the smooth, photo-opportunity landing where American troops encountered more journalists tha

BILL CLINTON wants a more ethical government, certainly a worthy goal. But his rigid new ethics rule

GOVERNMENT HAS A UNIQUE TALENT for wasting taxpayers money, but some projects are worth every penny.

U.S. exporters pushing for more U.S. foreign aid money to help them win big project awards in Third

KEEP RAILROAD RIGHTS OF WAY PRIVATEIn his Dec. 2 opinion article, "European Lesson for US Ra

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY'S tattered currency system received more bad news Thursday: Norway, which had

AS EACH WEEK PASSES, U.S. business support for a world trade deal wanes. A global agreement to elimi

Last week in Copenhagen, the Sea and Trade Court of Denmark closed a chapter in the tragedy of the S

President-elect Bill Clinton has a unique opportunity to set a new direction for foreign aid in the

Representatives from the major industrialized nations recently met secretly in Bonn to try to stem t

SOME GIVE AND TAKE on Russia's economic reform program is to be expected, but Prime Minister Yegor G