Commentary

In recent weeks, long-term interest rates in the United States have risen by half a percentage point

Competitiveness was a Washington buzzword a couple of years ago. Less was heard of it last year. But

MUDDLED THINKING AND A LACK of imagination best describe the Bush administration 's 1991 transportat

NEW YORK'S GOVERNOR MARIO CUOMO, once a professional player himself, has signed a bill permitting Ne

The bears were growling on Wall Street last week. Stocks, bonds and the dollar all posted substantia

THE FEDERAL BUDGET IS THREATENING to escape. Like a caged animal, it has been kept under control bec

SHOULD AN EMPLOYER bar a woman from certain jobs to protect an unborn childfrom workplace ha

British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd returned to London empty-handed from his recent visit to Hong

Despite the U.S. Customs Service's laudable efforts to streamline the ruling process in conjunction

ROBERT DOLE, THE SENATE REPUBLICAN leader, probably wouldn't appreciate beingput in thesame

If we believe in the American commitment to college education for the masses, we have to know that m

The Export-Import Bank is about to unveil a new way to help finance U.S. exports. It's calle

SHOULD FELONS BE ABLE TO BUY GUNS? Of course not, Congress said in 1988 when it passeda law requirin

With the beginning of a new decade, it is difficult not to wax philosophical. This is especially tru

THE PERUVIAN AMBASSADOR to the United States, Cesar Atala Nazal, has come up with a "supply-side" so

INSURERS REJECT "PRIVATE" LABELWe are deeply troubled and angered by the sensationalism and

SHOULD AN INNER CITY RESIDENT, forced to ride subways and buses, be less protected from a drug-affli

It might surprise some people to learn that the collapse of communism has not turned East Europeans

An unsettling international flap over long tractor trailers that is pitting U.S. trailer manufacture

ELECTRIC AUTOMOBILES WOULD CUT POLLUTIONI believe your Dec. 26 editorial, "Fuel Alternatives

STEP RIGHT UP AND TAKE YOUR PICK! Buy insurance, have a disaster and Uncle Sam will pay. Or, don't b

AIR TRAVEL DELAYS cost the economy nearly $5 billion last year, the Federal Aviation Administration

If you think things get quiet at the end of December and early January, you ought to be in Asia in t

The national transportation policy that Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner previewed in a re

IT WAS ONLY YESTERDAY that taxpayers were asked to dig deep into their pockets to bail outthe federa

As a deep freeze gripped most of the nation recently, the price of heating oil rose dramatically. Be

President Bush is facing a major challenge over federal taxes, practically on the eve of his first f

Even to some of its most dedicated adherents, Japan's vaunted education system always has seemed des

EVERYBODY AGREES on the need to reduce toxic pollutants in the air. But as Congress resumesdebate on

DOUBLE BOTTOM STAND GETS HIGH MARKSAs a critic of your Oct. 17 editorial which endorsed limi

If Greece this year manages to turn around a faltering economy, it will be largely due to two 86-yea

Politicians, trade policy officials and business people are overly preoccupied with Japan. Their myo

''COMMISSION HAS MEETING" is not the sort of headline newspaper editors dream about. But the Inters

CLEANING UP THE AIR can't be mandated in isolation: The costs of reducing emissions should be weighe

It's another "make or break" week for a decision on a big money increase for the International Monet

IT'S FED-BASHING TIME AGAIN on Pennsylvania Avenue. President Bush, White House spokesman Marlin Fi

WASHINGTON, AFTER YEARS OF DITHERING, finally agrees that acid rain is an environmental problem. But

Many lessons have been drawn from the continuing crisis of the savings and loan industry. Unfortuna

The Soviet Union is sliding into a deepening crisis that could shift Mikhail Gorbachev from man of t

Last week's meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, of high-level representatives of the Soviet-led Council for