Commentary

This city is being treated to two contrasting examples of teamwork. One involves the Washing

WRONGHEADED VIEW ON TARIFF CUTSI must confess to some confusion after reading Charles Bremer

There is an old Reader's Digest saying (sometimes attributed to George Bernard Shaw) that if you lai

As the Uruguay Round of world trade talks moves toward a final, critical juncture, the United States

The 102nd Congress has just adjourned for the year; its braver members are back home with the electo

Bankruptcy, unemployment, homelessness and recession are the new buzzwords for the nineties. With th

ITALIANS TAKE THEIR PASTA VERY SERIOUSLY. Reuters reports that Italian authorities this week unleash

IT'S A WONDER FOREIGN-MADE GOODS ever reach U.S. store shelves. Every product arriving at a U.S. por

THE TORTUOUS TALE of New Jersey's strained relations with auto insurers has taken another twist. A s

EXPAND MARITIME SUBSIDIESNational security and a balanced economy rely on a modern, diverse

There is no escaping it. Everywhere you turn in Britain these days, the issue is the same: Europe.

EVEN GEORGE BUSH, the old China hand, is running out of patience with Beijing's unfair trade policie

There is a strain of schizophrenia running through the current national debate on when to restrict f

FOR 10 MONTHS the administration labored mightily to modernize banking laws that bar interstate bran

THERE'S A LOT TO LIKE in the new $151 billion national transportation bill that cleared the Congress

The Export-Import Bank is dickering with the Russian Republic's Bank for Foreign Trade before it sig

After a year in power in the most industrialized province of Canada, Ontario's socialists are discov

India's government is making many changes every day to increase the role of private enterprise in th

THE PUSH-ME, PULL-YOU NATURE of the five-year Uruguay Round of trade talks is beginning to try the p

Snow has yet to fall on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but this is the winter of discontent for George Bu

After months of painstaking negotiations between leaders of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and officials o

Intoxicated with public support, environmental activists celebrated last year after cajoling the thr

THE DECADES-OLD WAR between anti-smoking advocates and tobacco companies has become a battle for the

Fidel Castro is turning Cuba into a supermarket for Third World nuclear technology. Delegations from

ADDING TO THE CONSIDERABLE WOES of Soviet citizens is news of impending coffee shortages in 1992. So

The international shipping community is taking quiet satisfaction in the fact that Americans probabl

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S transportation planners, who have been scrambling to relieve congestion around

FED'S MONETARY POLICY IS BEST TOOLIn Don Becker's Oct. 30 column ("Publisher's Notebook," Pa

AN IDEOLOGICAL BATTLE IS UNDER WAY in the European Community that will determine how business is con

The Civil Rights Act of 1991, which President Bush signed Thursday, contained a little-noted but imp

With very little fanfare, the U.S. Customs Service two months ago proposed new regulations that will

The Bush administration isn't giving up on the national energy strategy bill crafted by Sen. Bennett

CONGRESS IS DOING ITS BEST to put McDonnell Douglas out of business. The St. Louis aircraft

Nuclear submarines and washing machines may have little in common, but they have even less in common

In voting last week to cap consumer credit card rates, U.S. senators undoubtedly thought they had ac

Who killed Midway Airlines? There's plenty of blame to go around.There are the obvious suspe

HEALTH CARE COSTS are spiraling out of control, prompting much hand-wringing in Washington and polic

The next big question in the continuing debate over the pros and cons of foreign trade for the Ameri

SHIP INSPECTIONS AREN'T GOOD ENOUGHI noticed an article in your Nov. 15 edition ("GAO Says C

Pearl Harbor's 50th anniversary is approaching, U.S.-Japan ties continue to be strained and Japan ha