Commentary

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

TAXES INEVITABLY CREEP UPWARD, but they may be heading higher than anyone thought. Beyond th

In his role as chairman of the President's Council on Competitiveness, Vice President Dan Quayle has

MANAGEMENT ERRORS RAILROAD'S DOWNFALLI normally would not presume to comment on indu

UNION DEMOCRACY IS EXPENSIVE. The federal government has spent the last two years cleaning up the Te

Critics of the American airline industry point with horror to the surge in near-midair collisions -

FILING RATES WITH THE GOVERNMENT is one of the hallmarks of maritime regulation. But does rate filin

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER JOHN MAJOR wanted it known that his meeting with Chinese Premier LiPeng this

Waste management has become both a major environmental issue and a trade policy predicament. One cou

Horror stories from luckless travelers about flight delays and long lines at Tokyo's Narita and Osak

Cancel the funeral. Contrary to lugubrious reports, science in America is not expiring from financia

TEAMSTERS, LONGSHOREMEN, locomotive engineers the names fairly ring with the sound of militant unio

JAPAN'S IMAGE as a mercantilist nation is only reinforced by the latest trade figures. The Japanese

AUTO IMPORTS STORY MISSING SOME FACTSWe have read your article, "In the Land of the

In responding to the gripping events in the Soviet Union, the European Community has done well to di

On the subject of political parties, humorist Will Rogers once stated: "I belong to no organized par

"HOW CAN THERE BE TALK of building communism when the revisionist . . . cliques are leading the Sovi

Twenty West African countries have launched a collective bid to confront the multibillion-dollar glo

No one is weeping today for the death of communism or totalitarianism in the Soviet Union, least of

In these heady, revolutionary times, Russian President Boris Yeltsin is emerging as a Latin-style st

There is not much here now: a stone slab, the rusted cover of what may have been a cistern, two seve

The collapse of the Iron Curtain has brought home the dismal failure of economic central planning. I

FINES FOR OIL SPILLS EXCEED CRIMES' COSTSYour article "Phillips to Pay $4 Million to Settle

TRASH IS BIG BUSINESS. For the companies that treat and transport it, municipal solid waste - paper,

Now for the business management lessons we can learn from last week's failed Soviet coup. Yo

Just before it went into summer recess last month, the Senate did a startling thing. It approved a c

At least 32 million Americans - 12 million of whom are children - have no health insurance. One out

ACROSS THE U.S. FINANCIAL SPECTRUM, regulators are devising ways to avoid a repeat of the big insolv

THE "NIMBY" SYNDROME - Not in My Back Yard - is alive and well in Santa Barbara, Calif. Residents of

The anti-communist revolutions in the fall of 1989 sent much of central and eastern Europe on an irr

'MIXED CREWING' DESERVES REVIEWEarlier this week a journalist unfamiliar with maritime matte

BORIS YELTSIN'S HONEYMOON won't last. Flush with power from crushing last week's coup, Mr. Yeltsin,

SPEED KILLS, but only in some states, it seems. A new study by the University of Maryland, c

The prospects for an improvement in Soviet-Japanese relations are not necessarily brighter in the wa

Approval for the Soviet Union's associate membership in the World Bank, which entitles it only to te

With increasing regularity, blacks, women and other Americans have felt the sting of bias by public

EVERY OCCUPATION HAS ITS HAZARDS and most of them are insurable. Medical malpractice is just one exa

U.S. TRADE NEGOTIATORS have been struggling for years to open the Japanese market to foreign goods a

The recent bankruptcy reorganization announcements by Pan Am, TWA and America West bring to a close

Pardon me, boy, is this the aggravation station? Yeah, yeah. Track 29, and here's the company line:<