Commentary

WHEN AN OIL TANKER runs aground in Alaska or a hurricane devastates South Carolina, the midnight oil

AS IF POLITICAL UPHEAVAL and rising prices are not creating enough turbulence in the former Soviet r

SHIPPERS: MORE THAN A HANDFULAs leaders of three organizations that represent many thousands

Now that it's clear the Bush administration intends to use Israel's request for loan guarantees as l

What's ahead in what's left of 1992? Will the U.S.-Japanese trade balance change? Will China lose it

A trip to a Guangzhou bookstore, just over the border, provides a glimpse of China's tenuous relatio

OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS, the Bush administration will have a golden opportunity to climb down from i

IN THE RACE TO BUILD the world's fastest supercomputers, Japan's NEC Corp. says it has edged ahead o

Jobs, or the lack of them, are a central issue in the presidential campaign. Lost in the hoopla, how

In his 1947 Harvard commencement address, Secretary of State George C. Marshall pledged American aid

What is Germany up to? That question is uppermost in the minds of Germany's partners in the

THERE ARE NO WINNERS IN A TRADE WAR. That's why last week's eleventh-hour U.S.-China accord on copyr

President Carlos Salinas de Gortari of Mexico created a powerful locomotive for economic growth last

One of the challenges facing the new Commonwealth of Independent States is how to balance the centra

LAST WEEK'S RULING by an international trade panel - concluding that Germany illegally subsidized a

In the wake of President Bush's recent Pacific Rim trip, the focus is once again on how best to prom

IRANIANS OWN MORE THAN 1 million VCRs, but Western exporters of videotapes who see the Islamic natio

THE GRADES THAT FINANCIAL RATING FIRMS assign to insurance companies are almost as confusing as insu

The International Trade Commission is often called upon to analyze some pretty grim aspects of U.S.

Presidents do two things. Most of them strut and fret their hour upon the stage and then are

ORDERLY, PRISTINE SWITZERLAND is tackling a very messy problem: how to handle the thousands of drug

NO PROBLEMS WITH POSTMASTER FRANKYour Jan. 8 article about the resignation of Postmaster Gen

So, how do you like the real "new world order"? I mean the still emerging new world in which

WASHINGTON'S REVOLVING DOOR has been spinning out of control at the Federal Railroad Administration.

The resounding victory of the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria's first free elections last month -

The trashing of the U.S. economy by national news organizations is a scandal and a disgrace to Ameri

Japan didn't say yes but didn't say no to President Bush's appeal for $1 billion to help pay for the

FORMER SOVIET LEADER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, three weeks after his forced retirement from the presidency

Last week, George Bush traveled to Japan to press his election-year campaign to break down Japanese

ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS of the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments is a plan to let the market decide how to

WASHINGTON WILL SPEND $151 billion during the next six years to improve highways and public transit,

The next few years could be very difficult ones for both the U.S. economy and the U.S. stock market.

The debate over whether to impose a speed limit on German highways is heating up once more here, as

IN CASE WE NEEDED a reminder of the gargantuan national tab for health care, we now have one from th

UNION LEADERS TAKE DEMOCRATIC MEASURESIn your lead editorial, "Maritime Disunion" (Jan. 6, 1

As the former Soviet republics struggle with price reform and ethnic unrest, Western companies with

Maritime industry officials are nervous as 108 nations meet today on the global trade liberalization

GERMAN UNIFICATION is continuing to strain the national economy. The latest problem is the inflation

JOB-RELATED INJURY CLAIMS are rising by the day, forcing a growing number of insurance companies to

The question keeps coming at me. Why is everyone so gloomy? It is most often asked by people who liv