Commentary

CAMPEAU, BRIDGESTONE, HOECHST, NESTLE. Foreign takeovers of U.S. companies have become almost a dail

This past June, four engineers from leading American manufacturing companies sat around a circular t

SPEED KILLS. THAT'S ESPECIALLY TRUE when an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer is involved. The Department

NADER WENT TOO FAR IN ATTACK ON INSURERSYour Nov. 15 coverage of California's Proposition 10

LAST MONTH, CANADIAN VOTERS said they want freer trade with the United States. Next week, President

Touted as the keystone for a Latin American common market, the treaty of economic cooperation and in

CARLOS SALINAS DE GORTARI, who takes office today as the president of Mexico, faces challenges even

ALLOWING TRADE TO BE THE HANDMAIDEN of foreign policy cost President Reagan dearly. Downplaying trad

CENSUS BUREAU'S INTEGRITY DEFENDEDI waited all this time (hoping to cool down) before writin

Every now and then, a story comes along that deserves more attention than it gets from the better-kn

Sovietologists have been so preoccupied with recent Politburo personnel changes that they have faile

The network television news has become the favorite punching bag of those who lose out in the court

Day after day over the past two months, millions of Japanese have been patiently keeping up with the

Hopefully George Bush was able to enjoy his Thanksgiving holiday at Kennebunkport, Maine. Come the t

MONDAY'S RISE IN THE PRIME RATE to 10.5 percent, the highest rate in three- and-one-half years, shou

Nearly two years after the European Community adopted a common maritime policy, it is still not clea

Britain's ports feel badly let down by the politicians. While port managers say they are doi

INTEREST ON DEBT IS DEDUCTIBLE from corporate income tax. Dividends on equity are not. That differen

POINTS ON TRADE BAR DESERVE EXPANSIONI am glad to be called a crocodile and even often wrong

THE GRAPEVINE SAYS Farrell Lines Inc.'s president, Richard Parks, has the inside track to be maritim

From his perch beneath the cedars on the University of British Columbia's sprawling campus, James Br

The movement toward closer integration of the European Community in 1992 is a source of constant hea

REFORM OF THE SYSTEM for procuring ocean transportation of military cargoes may be one of those issu

THE SWEEPING VICTORY of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party in Monday's parliamentary election s

The Bush administration must feel blessed. Never - at least in recent memory - has an incoming admin

FOREIGN COMPANIES ARE FLOCKING to the United States - where their subsidiaries earn substantially le

George Bush hardly had time to catch his breath last week when he was faced with his first serious p

Life is changing in China, but not always for the better. When I visited China last month, I

During the 1780s, Field Marshal Grigori Potemkin gave Catherine the Great a tour of shiny, prosperou

CALIFORNIA VOTERS' ANGRY APPROVAL of a massive rollback of car insurance rates should finally make c

US TRADE POLICIES LACKING DIRECTIONYour editorial Half Measures (Oct. 31) states, For every

An agreement on agriculture is crucial to the success of the current trade negotiations in the Gener

DESPITE ALL THE CRITICISM, this month's election wasn't marked by much more negativism than can usua

PRESIDENT REAGAN'S PLEDGE of greater U.S. flexibility on agricultural trade signifies a more realist

ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN FEW and far between in the 41 years since Pakistan became an independent nation.

A GROUP OF SHIPPERS, truckers and consumer advocates, which met earlier this month to plan a 1989 le

Richard A. Stuckey has a shorthand way of predicting recessions in the United States. He keeps an ey

The United States is about to emerge from the Reagan era, which has turned this country into the wor

Monday is the day of reckoning for the U.S.-Canada free trade deal that has been approved in Washing

Oct. 26, 1988. Today, I returned to Grenada. Return, I suppose, is a very imprecise term as my last