Commentary

CONSOLIDATIONS, MERGERS AND BANKRUPTCIES in the airline industry have sparked panicky calls for re-r

Last Friday, the Federal Reserve gave in to political and market pressure andcut the discoun

TALES OF WASTEFUL GOVERNMENT SPENDING are nothing new, but the latest excesses - this time by Washin

UNION DEMOCRACY IS RECEIVING A BLACK EYE at West Coast ports. The nearly 50,000 members of the Inter

President Francois Mitterrand managed to restore some luster to his tarnished image last week. For m

WHO IS TO BLAME FOR INSURANCE WOES?Though not for lack of trying, insurance industry

In the dog days of August, when most politicians were as far away from Washington as they could get,

CONGRESS HOLDS UP IMF SHOW ODDS THAT THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND will win a $60 billion

REMEMBER WHEN, early last year, Tokyo announced a new national imports promotion campaign? We haven'

IF YOU THINK AIRLINE PASSENGERS are less safe since airlines were deregulated, think again. Airline

Airline deregulation, apparently, has become one of those subjects doomed for perpetual controversy.

Democracy and the free-market system stand victorious over one-party dictatorships and command econo

THE 1989 EXXON VALDEZ oil spill produced legislative and regulatory ripples that are about to wash u

The lackluster economic performance of the United States over the past decade compared with Japan is

CHINA AND VIETNAM have been forging closer political ties lately, mostly to help bring an end to the

Judge Harold Greene's July 25 decision allowing the seven regional Bell companies to enter the infor

Consider, for a second, the ruble. This may be an unexciting subject to you after watching the recen

Some issues never quite die. Despite repeated consideration and frequent action by Congress, they co

Mercy and economics call for taming the health-care system's perverse flair for consuming gargantuan

TRUCKING CARTELS ARE DYING. Last week, Yellow Freight System Inc., the nation's largest trucking com

The wetlands issue today is about where hazardous waste was six or seven years ago. At that time gov

U.S. LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES should be heartened, not dismayed, by a forewarning from the American

JET AIRCRAFT WILL BECOME a little quieter over the next decade as airlines are forced to replace or

In the understatement of the year, Salomon Inc., the nation's largest government bond dealer, on Aug

You know the story of a man without a country. The administration and Congress are about to

PRESIDENT BUSH PROMISED anxious environmentalists several months ago that a U.S.-Mexico free-trade a

"When I ask for information, all I get is generalities and bureaucratic drivel," complained Miroslav

THERE ARE DISTURBING SIGNS that South Korea has renewed the misguided anti- imports campaign it bega

A SHIPYARD BY ANY OTHER NAMEYour story on Crowley Maritime's decision to pursue a tanker con

CRIES OF "YANKEE GO HOME" seemed to reach a crescendo Monday in the Philippines, where more than hal

Lobbying for trade interests on Capitol Hill is not what is used to be. Today, business lobbyists ap

As Prime Minister John Major arrived home in Britain Friday after his trip to China and Hong Kong, t

MEXICO'S MID-TERM ELECTIONS were a test of Carlos Salinas de Gortari's commitment to political refor

FIDEL CASTRO IS DETERMINED to keep Cuba's one-party Communist government intact in the wake of Commu

Insurance, long discussed over stifled yawns, is now giving some people sleepless nights. The sharp

The Bush administration this week is slated to give Congress its views on the 1990 U.S.-Soviet trade

As the controversy over unskilled foreign workers in Japan drags on, the illegal labor force has swe

The revolt of the Russian people against the Bolshevik coup was the first step on the path to buildi

OMNIPORT ARTICLE MISJUDGED REPORTThe Aug. 23 issue of your paper contained an article, "Port

SCHOOLS ARE NOT ASSEMBLY LINES. Yet many would-be education experts cannot resist the temptation to