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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If skepticism is healthy, this is an extremely salubrious spot. Last week S. Linn Williams,

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

1990 promises to be a tough year for Republicans in Washington, but a good time for Wall Street. If

TAKE A CUP AND GET IN LINE. Thanks to the Department of Transportation, mandatory random drug testin

DEGRADABLE PLASTICS NOT THE ONLY SOLUTIONI was interested in the editorial ("Bag Job," Dec.

CAROL BOYD HALLET, the new commissioner of the U.S. Customs Service, has a rebuilding job ahead of

COMMANDING THE SAVINGS RATE to rise is about as useful as commanding the sun to stand still. Neither

''This will be the best Christmas ever," writes our friend. "Freedom for our nation, freedom for eac

The foreign ministers of 18 West European countries today will launch negotiations to create a comm

The skunk population was breeding so rapidly around some of the New Hampshire fishing lakes that ang

IF YOU CAN'T MEET YOUR OWN standards, perhaps they're too tight. That seems to be the logic

The big Mexican debt relief deal is turning out to be significantly differentfrom the packag

President Bush's capital gains tax cut has been taken off the table for now, but it will be back - a

FREER TRADE WITH EASTERN EUROPE means business opportunities. But exploiting those opportunities wil

WHEN THEY SENT TROOPS to massacre protesters in Tiananmen Square last June, China's leaders were bet

At Malta, President Bush finally put forward a key element of his package demonstrating strong U.S.

IN HER FIRST YEAR in office, U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills has settled for a series of tacti

Even environmentally conscious Americans don't spend much time worrying about banana waste. That may

Arguably the biggest single obstacle to the successful implementation of economic reform inthe Sovie

MALPRACTICE HEADLINE DAMPENS EUPHORIAJournal of Commerce readers who rely on skimming headli

When I heard that Jiri Dienstbier would be Czechoslovakia's new foreign minister, I laughed at the i

Herb called our office one evening to say he had an idea for my next column. That is a subje

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO FORTRESS EUROPE? Only yesterday, the prospect that the European Community's 12

WITH "FIRM ASSURANCES that those returning would not be punished," the British government Tuesday fl

CRITICIZING THE 45-YEAR-OLD system that regulates international aviation is easy. But no one has yet

Not all that long ago, when the dollar was still almighty, the most widely noted tourists traveling

Because the deficit will not go away, critics like the U.S. General Accounting Office have begun to

A back-room brawl in banking threatens to split the nation's commercial banks. At the worst, the dis

THE RECENTLY NAMED HEAD of Panama's journalist's union, Baltazar Aizpurua, has spoken out against th

AS CHANGE SWEEPS the communist world, from East Germany to Vietnam, one nation has remained aloof. G

Whether Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher likes it or not, Britain is increasingly becoming a part of

OCEAN SHIPS SERVING U.S. Great Lakes ports can't avoid doing business with Canada. The Canadian Coas