Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN. Most everyone learns that, but the savings and loan industry and its federa

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

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

DEREGULATION'S WORST ENEMIES are often those who claim to be its greatest friends. For no one is tha

J. MICHAEL FARREN, deputy undersecretary of Commerce for international trade in the Reagan administr

Carla Hills, President Bush's nominee to be U.S. Trade Representative, has taken on the thankless jo

Freight forwarders have an intense interest in the international communication of documentary data.

LOW EXPECTATIONS attended James Burnley's installation as secretary of transportation in 1987. Even

Latin America: A major engine of economic growth in the 1990s, helping the United States deal with i

ON BARRIERS OF LANGUAGE, TRADEMy sympathies go out to your Frankfurt correspondent Erich Tol

Entertainment takes many forms - films, theater, concerts - but for those of us who are crossword pu

ONE UNFORTUNATE DIFFERENCE between the new U.S. president and the old is already apparent: George Bu

AMERICA'S ROLE IN THE WORLD ECONOMY promises to be a subject of prolonged and emotional debate in Ge

For a number of years, far more jobs have been created in service industries than in manufacturing.

Those of us generally lumped together as the media have had a bad few weeks. On at least three major

COST WAS BIG FACTOR IN FAST FLOW'S FALLYour Jan. 4 article, "NY/NJ Port Authority Mothballs

''WE MEANT TO CHANGE A NATION, and instead, we changed the world is how President Reagan sums up hi

Sometimes you don't know who or what to believe, even in the nation's capital. It's even mor

Blaming foreigners was an often-invoked theme during the most recent election campaign, both at the

George Herbert Walker Bush will not take his oath of office until Friday, but last week Wall Street

After initially clearing West German companies of any role in helping Libya build a chemical weapons

FACTORIES ARE HUMMING, consumer demand is solid, unemployment is at a 14-year low. Excessive economi

Corporate executives still mapping out their 1992 strategy could do worse than look at the track re

RAILROADS COMMITTED TO CROSSING SAFETYAn opinion article by V.M. Speakman, the president of

The European Community imposed a ban on the use of all hormonal growth promoters and the sale of mea

Science fiction is a popular diversion for many people, but there is an equally strong attraction fo

TUESDAY'S ARREST of the leader of Mexico's oil workers' union, JoaquinHernandez Galicia, bet

W. Edwards Deming, at age 88, was still going strong at Washington's George Washington University la

TWO WESTERN POWER COMPANIES, PacifiCorp and Utah Power & Light, this week completed the largest elec

Pity the dollar bears. Coordinated central bank intervention to sell U.S.dollars into the ma

THERE'S BLAME APLENTY to pass around for the crisis of the savings and loan industry, which may requ

BOND BETWEEN TEXTILE, APPAREL SECTORS STRONGYour Dec. 27 editorial, Weakening Cement is far,

This is a column about Bush's law, a no man's land, the wise men, a promising approach to the U.S.-J