Commentary

Call it keeping up with the corporate Joneses. Companies, more than ever, are studying indus

CREATING COMPUTER SOFTWARE - the sequence of machine instructions that cause computers to perform us

FREE MARKETS CAN SERVE all sorts of goals - even furthering religious nationalism. The gover

Advocates of limiting the number of terms members of Congress may serve gathered here this week for

With the demise of the Soviet Union and the end of its foreign economic aid to Cuba, the question is

STOP NEEDLESS STUDIES ON TRANSPORTATIONRailroads are urging Congress to allocate more federa

Mexico's overpopulated capital, Mexico City, is plagued by chronic environmental decay. Whatwas once

Mitsuru Yoshimoto clearly was embarrassed as he approached the reception desk of the Bachelors' Acad

IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE A MORE GRISLY SCENE: a car slams into the back of an 18- wheeler, the hood slip

The mindless violence that ripped Los Angeles last week had obvious economic roots. TheU.S. economy

FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Margaret Thatcher, who resigned from office 18 months ago, is back wit

HEADLINE ON USF&G REVERSED THE FACTSAn article in your April 6 "Insurance Briefs" section re

AN EMBARRASSED SILENCE from aircraft makers greeted Richard Gephardt's proposal last week to subsidi

The magnitude of the crisis facing the Lloyd's of London insurance market seems at last to have dawn

The recent unveiling of the West's $24 billion aid package to the former Soviet republics has quiete

If Washington whispers are any guide, retired Air Force Gen. Thomas C. Richards may wait a long time

The "black Wednesday" tragedy in Guadalajara in late April sent shock waves beyond the 20 blocks tha

SELLING PUBLIC ASSETS to private companies is all the rage in Eastern Europe and Latin America. It's

Why is one of the world's busiest airports also among the smallest, most dangerous and heavily guard

GOVERNMENT-OWNED FACILITIES that launch rockets into space may soon face competition from a new sour

In 1979, with the U.S. facing a well-orchestrated effort by the Soviet Union and its satellites to a

It was Paul Tsongas who kept the jobs issue alive in the presidential campaign. As he slowly fades f

STATE PILOTS ARE AN ASSET TO SHIPPINGYour April 15 editorial tarred the state pilota

EASTERN EUROPE'S painful economic reforms have taken their toll. High unemployment and even higher p

SOUTHWESTERN STATES continue their campaign to cut production of natural gas. This week, Tex

FOR THE PAST DECADE, Congress and the White House have looked for ways to commercialize technologies

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP., which already is trimming its management, now is moving to re

Since December 1990, when negotiations to conclude a new world trade agreement broke down, the Urugu

STATES CAN ENFORCE SOLVENCY STANDARDSWe echo your call for nationwide insurer solvency stand

Doubt that the Uruguay Round is in trouble? Consider this response from a senior U.S. administration

WITH FIVE TIMES MORE CARS per square mile than most industrialized nations, Holland has a horrific t

When British Prime Minister John Major offered Conservative Party Chairman Chris Patten the job of g

FEDERALLY LICENSED SHIP PILOTS ARE SAFEThe American Institute of Merchant Shipping (AIMS), w

Economic expansion in the United States, powered by gains in productivity and explosive short-term i

THE FAMILIES OF THOSE KILLED when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up in 1988 begin a long legal battle i

German Chancellor Helmut Kohl received a message this month he wasn't expecting. His ruling Christia

Finland's decision on March 18 to make itself the third member of the European Free Trade Associatio

THE U.S. CATTLE INDUSTRY, already hit by a drop in consumption because of popular concern over fat i

"This is the final - I repeat - the final week of the Uruguay Round. There will be no extension. The

KASTEN-DANFORTH BILL SHOULD BE STOPPEDYour April 21 editorial, "Product Liability," was disa