Commentary

The news media and the government recently figured out that we're in a recession. Some busin

IT'S BEING CALLED "an accident in Polish democracy." When roughly 16 million Poles turned out to vot

VIETNAMESE OFFICIALS say they hope all the factions in the 12-year-old civil war in Cambodia will em

Yoshihito Watanabe glanced at the office windows and was pleased to see there was no moon to lighten

A major confrontation is brewing between the Federal Reserve, the administration and Congress. With

CHECK THE FACTS ON US-FLAG SHIPPINGI would have preferred that this letter would have had as

Having won the battle over beef and oranges, the United States now insists that the Japanese must ea

Being American means never having to say you're sorry. We're always the guys with the white hats. We

SHOULD FOREIGN CORPORATIONS be allowed to buy U.S. airlines? Officials at the Department of Transpo

The dashing Michael Heseltine, the statesman-like Douglas Hurd or the personable John Major. That is

American chemical exporters are outraged. A Korean chemical company, Korea Engineering Plastics, has

MARGARET THATCHER DID WONDERS to help Britain grow and prosper in the 1980s. Her departure will do t

VIETNAMESE BANKING OFFICIALS last week said the government has allowed the creation of the country's

The World Bank's executive board is slated this week to take up an increasingly touchy issue - new l

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY Samuel K. Skinner's decision last week to sell three government-owned natur

NOT MANY PEOPLE are sanguine about the economy these days, but there's a contrarian in every crowd.<

President Bush and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari are due to confer early next week in

You have comfortably and safely settled down in your seat in an airplane flying from Geneva to Londo

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan set a trap for the stock market last week. Mr. Greenspan lo

LAST WEEK'S ANNOUNCEMENT that Walter Shea, a vice president of the International Brotherhood of Team

NO GROUP HAS PROFITED MORE from transportation deregulation than enterprising truckers. Thou

Time is running out fast for Western Europe to defuse a ticking time bomb that threatens to convulse

NVO BILL TO ENFORCE EXISTING REGULATIONSYour editorial about proposed non-vessel-operating c

President Bush meets next week with Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari to discuss progress

The election defeat of Rep. Roy Dyson, D-Md., means a new chairman for the House Merchant Marine an

Ever since the stormy collapse last June of a constitutional reform package, Canada resembles a ship

Many blacks enjoy boasting that the black community has buying power in excess of $200 billion annua

THE DEBATE OVER MARITIME subsidy reform has gone on aimlessly for a decade. The request by a major U

FMC NOT IN NEED OF ECONOMISTSJesse Calhoon's letter of Nov. 9 criticizing my short tenure an

RARELY HAS THE not-in-my-backyard movement suffered a more stunning defeat. After a decade of conten

INVESTMENT BANKING ISN'T exactly a hot business: With the stock market tumbling and the merger boom

The Federal Railroad Administration is an enigma. It's an agency with no big federal program to admi

Throughout its history, the Federal Railroad Administration has devoted a great deal of time to duck

The United States is trying to maintain international trade practices that defy commercial realities

I went to vote last week wondering whether I'd run into any of the anti- incumbent sentiment suppose

A CHEMICAL MANUFACTURER HAS charged three foreign companies with dumping, or selling products below

US NEEDS PROGRAM FOR RAIL, INTERMODALRe "What's Next for Mr. Skinner" (Washington Report, Op

There probably is no more popular male-dominated, macho activity in Japan than horse racing. Yet gro

EUROPE HAS CHANGED SO FAST the diplomats can hardly keep up. Next Monday, 32 European leaders, joine

THE UNITED STATES HAS NOT been shy in demanding that Japan reshape its society in ways that supposed