Commentary

This week begins a crucial test for U.S. negotiators on a critical international steel agreement.

An increasing number of American politicians, businessmen and academics believe that bilateral press

Good advocates paint glorious pictures. When they intervene for you with the powerful, they add an e

DELIVERING PACKAGES OVERNIGHT in California is getting easier for air express companies. A f

HOPES FOR A RAPPROCHEMENT between North and South Korea have been dampened by a recent disagreement

Cuba is gradually acquiring Western technology that could help ensure the safe operation of its Sovi

DON'T FALL FOR EMPTY PROMISES TO LABORBacking both a U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement and wo

NUCLEAR POWER - and the safety of the plants that produce it - strikes an emotional chord for many

A year after a constitutional reform package collapsed amid bitter feuding, Canada remains a country

STATES HAVE REPAIRED some of their worst highways during the last five years, but government is stil

A NEW YORK STATE BUDGET AGREEMENT hangs in the balance while Governor Mario M. Cuomo and state legis

America is losing ground. This is the disturbing conclusion to emerge from a remarkable inquiry by t

''Planning" is a dirty word in Washington. It's such a taboo that cadres of bureaucrats in the Bush

This year's seven-power economic summit, to be held in London July 15-17, threatens to make last yea

IMAGINE VISITING THE LOAN OFFICER at your local bank to secure funds for a new home or car. After de

The picture splashed across Britain's prestigious Sunday Times newspaper showed huge piles of garbag

AS NEGOTIATORS STRUGGLE to revive the Uruguay Round of world trade talks, hopeful signs are emerging

The talk of the town, indeed, of much of the world these days is the Harvard- Yavlinsky "Grand Barga

'COST OF PROTECTION' FROM QUOTAS INFLATEDIn "Real Victims of Textile Quotas," (Opinion, June

INSIDERS ARE SAYING that John Macomber, the Export-Import Bank chairman, is likely to be the next Se

Debating the need for a U.S. industrial policy is one of Washington's favorite exercises. Despite th

INSURERS ARE ALWAYS COMING UP WITH ingenious services for covering business risks. One Florida compa

A FUNNY THING happened in Luxembourg last week: Finance ministers from the 12 European Community mem

What's the secret of survival of a health system that for years has been diagnosed and denounced as

MOST TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES must deal with federal regulators, but few get to choose who those reg

THE HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE this week approved a bill laden with conditions on most-favored-n

CSX REALIZED NEED FOR 'SEAMLESS SERVICE'I read with great interest Robert Waters' article, "

In the old days, things were different. How many times have you heard your parents or an older colle

As the U.S. economy continues to wallow in recession, politicians are searching for ways to provide

Most U.S. business leaders have chosen to sit and watch the Gorbachev-Yeltsin drama rather than beco

WE HEAR SO MUCH about non-tariff trade barriers in other countries that it's always surprising and d

RICHARD NIXON APPRECIATED the Teamsters Union. When the former president needed eight "thugs" during

DON'T ABOLISH PORT CRIMEFIGHTERSThis is in response to your recent editorial calling for the

Perhaps the approach of the summer solstice accounts for what has gone on here this past week. Primi

ENVIRONMENTALISTS OFTEN CLASH with government, but now the two sides can't even agree on when a disa

A CALIFORNIA FEDERAL APPEALS COURT ruled wisely last week that U.S. insurers are not exempt from ant

Slumped over the counter at a sleazy Osaka bar aptly dubbed Rocinante - after Don Quixote's sad hors

As the United States struggles out of its recessionary hole, Japan and West Germany are still roarin

World trade in textiles is governed by an intricate system of international restrictions. Although t

IT'S BEING CALLED "MORE THAN a breakthrough." At least that's what one guerrilla leader is calling t