Commentary

Cynicism and lack of commitment are so prevalent today that it is startling to meet someone like Jud

THE BANKRUPTCY FILING of Eastern Airlines need have no effect on competition in the airline industry

IF YOU NEED TO MOVE FREIGHT from Buffalo to Toronto, your regular truck line can probably do the job

If you believe the World Bank, China is poorer than Kenya, Zambia, Sudan and Haiti. But if you have

OK, from this day forward, do you ever really believe, ever really accept at face value a review of

A HIGHER MINIMUM WAGE is almost a certainty: The Senate Labor Committee voted Wednesday to raise the

IF CONGRESSMEN BELIEVE THEIR MAIL, Section 89 of the Internal Revenue Code is the worst thing to hap

STEEL USERS PROTEST UNEVEN TREATMENTCampaigning for an extension of the present import restr

In the early years of airline deregulation, it seemed that vigorous competition would provide the pu

FOREIGN TAKEOVERS are preoccupying Congress again. Within the next few days, the House of Representa

US SHOULD LISTEN TO MARITIME PANELYour predictable "Gathering Dust" response (Feb. 23) to th

It's way too early to judge the new administration and the new Congress, but they've begun to demons

In his Feb. 9 address to Congress, President Bush reminded us that policies to encourage economic gr

President Bush is in danger of losing control of the Washington agenda at the very outset of his adm

From the earliest days of Japan's postwar period, except for a very brief period, the country's cons

THE STRIKE AT EASTERN AIRLINES, now in its fifth day, has taken on an importance out of all proporti

THE PROTRACTED STRUGGLE over John Tower's nomination to be secretary of defense drags on seemingly w

WITH STARTLING SPEED, the world's governments are moving to end production of two families of chemic

THE STEEL INDUSTRY'S ENDLESS CAMPAIGN for import protection is returning to the legal arena, with st

A 75-day truce has been declared in the hormone war. This was the result of meetings in Washington F

The European Community is scoring some direct hits in its war of attrition against Japanese exporter

INSURANCE REFORM STARTS AT CONSUMERThe article "Survey Finds Consumer Support For Host of In

TALKS HERE THIS WEEK may pave the way toward resolving the three-year impasse on reviving the Inter-

Intellectually, I know that re-regulation won't do much to make flying more pleasant. But every time

The U.S. embassy in Moscow, on which construction was suspended after the discovery of Soviet-instal

IN WARSAW, the government is on the verge of recognizing an independent labor union. In Budapest, op

TRY AS HE MAY TO IGNORE IT, the budget deficit just won't leave George Bush alone. Mr. Bush

The 12-member nations of the European Community have adopted a plan of economic unification. Their g

In his hectic two-day trip to China, President Bush seems to have accomplished just what he aimed to

THE FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD never rushes into anything. Its latest proposal requiring c

GEN. MANUEL NORIEGA, WHO CALLS the shots in the Republic of Panama, has proven to be a clever and re

President Bush wants to make America a "kinder and gentler nation." Are there any such nations? The

DAYS OF PAROCHIALISM PAST FOR FORWARDERSI read with a great deal of interest your report "Fo

''THE ARMY MOVED TO WIPE OUT SNIPERS in the hills of Caracas today after the government suspended ci

It was almost another Texas mini-series, but this time Defense Secretary- design ate John Tower - or

Now that Lt. Gen. Boris V. Gromov, commander of the Soviet forces in Afghanistan, has walked across

Need nothing be done to help U.S. banks deal with the Third World debt problem? So claim off

Is the "tort crisis" real or fake? Is it mostly driven by a genuine rise in lawsuits and pay-outs, o

To a casual observer, last week was a watershed for Wall Street. Investors finally had to face reali

THE NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD has blundered once more into the airline industry's longest-running lab