Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

''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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Building on Ronald Reagan's final budget will be a tricky task for George Bush, who wants credibili

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

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

THE UNITED STATES IS THE WORLD'S PREMIER coal producer and one of a handful of countries that are po

With Ronald Reagan about to leave the national stage, Washington is in a mellow mood. Even liberals

Across the muddy River Plate from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Uruguay's democratic government has probl

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OFTEN has trouble keeping its promises, but the Transportation Department las

The end of the year and the first two weeks of January together traditionally are a more leisurely t

Contrary to popular belief, the tax burden is not too low. In fact, it's much closer to the record h

USERS SHOULDN'T PAY FOR LILCO'S MISTAKEWe concur with your assertion that Gov. Mario Cuomo's

PRESIDENT REAGAN, in offering his final budget Monday, proposed to take a big chunk out of the feder