Commentary

A PICTURE OF A STAGNANT ECONOMY is becoming clearer by the day. Each morning's paper brings news of

Much time and energy here are devoted to proving there is a significant difference between the Repub

The 1950s was the American Decade, the 1970s a decade that belonged to OPEC, and the 1960s is still

FROM THE RISE of the microprocessor to the fall of the Berlin wall, the 1980s was a decadeof the une

All of us who love the sea should give a resounding welcome to the first year of the last decade of

The 1990s are off to a good start. By any reasonable standard, the world is at peace. Democracy is o

Barely six months ago, the European Community's program to create the world's biggest single trade b

ABOUT 500,000 TIMES A DAY, shipments of hazardous materials ranging from household bleach to nuclea

Out of the mouths of babes: After the big flap over the so-called Thanksgiving Day mistake by the Fe

Stories of foreign companies buying control of U.S. real estate and businesses leap from the headli

THE PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION has problems aplenty: a backlog of 140 vessels stemming from the canal's

THINGS ARE BACK TO NORMAL in Argentina. Six months after Carlos Menem, pledging sweeping economic re

About five minutes after I brazenly offered to write a defense of the 1980s, I figured I'd made a bi

Three weeks before the Berlin Wall became a sieve, a brigade of VOPOs (Volkspolizei), East German bo

The strengthening of the yen against the dollar since 1985 failed to make U.S. exports more competit

Dear Manny, I got your message but I've been slow to answer because I realize that things ha

U.S. officials were stunned when, mere weeks after a major announcement at the Malta summit of new U

IMPORT DUMPING is not one of the world's greater sins. But in the midst of complicated negotiations

TO THE AVERAGE TAXPAYER, the idea that a government regulatory commission should have public meeting

They are among East Germany's best and brightest, this little group of articulate students from Humb

IN A ROAR OF FURY and a hail of bullets, Eastern Europe's most dictatorial communist regime has fall

U.S. intervention in Panama and the threat of civil war in Romania dominated the headlines over the

Words for "freedom" are spreading like wildfire in the communist worldbecause of increased o

MEMBERSHIP IN THE COMMUNITY of trading nations "can't be given to our friends like a goldcard," U.S.

As he drove along the crowded highway following the lovely moat around Emperor Akihito's palace earl

Back in the early 1960s, when the Federal Reserve resumed official foreign exchange operations after

The great unwrapper of unseen government activity is the Freedom of Information Act, a law passed in

AUTOMOTIVE AIR POLLUTION CONTROLS are proving difficult for Congress to agree on. But state governme

IT WAS CHEAP LABOR and a healthy U.S. import quota that enabled Taiwan to build one of theworld's la

Two important events affecting international transportation are taking place inBritain now. Both ste

POOLING PROGRAM A SUCCESS IN HOUSTONI was pleased to note your story ("Three Ship Lines Shap

FOR RONALD REAGAN, it was the tiny island of Grenada. For Jimmy Carter, a small group of Americans h

A railroad is a business, not a public utility. At least that's the way it's been since deregulation

The National Institutes of Health is a unique American creation: the biggest, richest and most produ

Across the country, electronic copying machines, many of them made in Japan, have been busy for mont

Back many centuries, not long after the Mongols had conquered the rest of China, rulers occasionally

Japan and the United States are often seen to be experiencing growing frustration with and resentmen

TOO MANY PENNIES in your pocket? In Washington, the Coin Coalition has the answer. And its answer,

AFTER A DARK QUARTER-CENTURY, the curtain is coming down on military rule in Latin America. The elec

Among the latest of the startling revelations coming out of Eastern Europe is the admission by Prime