Commentary

Between now and April 1989, negotiators for the United States and the European Community must find a

Laudable as they seem, recent outpourings of concern for Brazil's Amazon jungle ecology and proposal

COMPETITION GROWS BY FITS AND STARTS in the heavily regulated natural gas industry. Federal energy o

THE FORECAST IS FOR CALM AND TRANQUILITY at today's meeting of finance ministers of the world's seve

This was going to be a column on President Bush's news conferences since taking office. He has broug

There are some who might argue that the goal of monetary union is of such importance that we should

AID TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES is one of the most contentious - and unpopular - topics in Washington. B

The American Petroleum Institute's 103-page "white paper" on energy security, released last November

Since December 1986, the U.S. Customs Service has imposed a user fee on goods imported into this cou

THE TIMING COULD NOT BE WORSE for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to approve a radical depa

THE RON AND YASU SHOW, the long-running love feast between the leaders of the world's two largest ec

In "Who's Who in America," she has double the linage of her husband, who was counsel to a president

The 1989 bull market is starting to roar. The rationale for the rally - a slow economy and easy mone

Ideologically it would be difficult to find two political leaders more different than Soviet Preside

The nation's capital has been witness to an outpouring of speculation that George Bush will tackle i

A MINOR STOCK SCANDAL has mushroomed into a major embarrassment to French securities regulators, hig

A TRADE WAR IS UNDER WAY between the United States and Thailand. Might and right are both on the sid

DULUTH PORT DIRECTOR SETS RECORD STRAIGHTI have been misquoted so many times in the past 30

A TANKER TRUCK LOADED WITH A HIGHLY flammable chemical careened down an exit ramp on a Houston highw

George Bush defeated Michael Dukakis without revolts in the streets by left wing diehards. President

THE BUSH TEAM is moving quickly to decide appointments in some "second-tier" agencies - naming busin

The credits are rolling, the house lights are coming on, and Ronald Reagan goes out the way he came

''FOR THE 15,000 PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES involved in the former whaling industries in Japan, it's

In 1992, Americans will be celebrating the five-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the New Wo

EVERGREEN CLARIFIES JAMAICA CASE FACTSWe refer to your Jan. 13 article, "U.S. Customs Defend

From its very beginning, the world steel market has suffered from a feast and famine syndrome.

IF CUTTING ZEROS OFF OF BANKNOTES were the way to cut inflation, Brazil would have its economic prob

SUBSIDIZED AIRLINE SERVICE was the price of deregulation. To ease fears that airlines' new ability t

An accurate assessment of the economic situation is essential for effective policy-making. In either

Not long after Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency in 1963, he embarked on an unusual cost-cutt

WITH WARNINGS THAT AMERICA'S FUTURE is on the line, a coalition of U.S. electronics firms and govern

The Soviet Trade Exhibition that recently closed in New York was a watershed of sorts for ethnic cap

THE MINIVAN HAS BEEN THE AUTOMOTIVE HIT of the 1980s. The eight-passenger van has quickly become Ame

ONE OF THE WORLD'S MORE IMPORTANT CLUBS is cracking open the door. The Organization for Economic Coo

The current trade dispute between the United States and the European Community over the EC's ban on

The often violent Showa Era ended peacefully for Japan on Jan. 7 with the death of 87-year-old Emper

If this is January, it must be time to worry about the federal budget. Washington is aquiver with ex

There is a good side and a bad side to everything, the saying goes. In West Germany, the goo

By passing its investment law one year ago, Vietnam signaled its intention to catch up with its rapi

SOVIETS ACCENT NEED FOR DEMOCRATIZATIONCriticizing the human rights situation in the U.S.S.R