Commentary

MORE CHANGES are coming in the way the Commerce Department announces the U.S. merchandise trade bala

IT MAY NOT HAVE MUCH EFFECT on anyone else, but last Tuesday's appeals court decision is bad news fo

Fidel Velazquez is one Mexican politician who wouldn't seem to be in a position to dictate policy to

THE COMMON WISDOM is that the Federal Reserve Board's sudden move to slow the economy by increasing

GUILFORD NOT INVOLVED IN INFLUENCE PEDDLINGIn an Aug. 8 editorial (Ethics and the ICC), The

For over a decade now, ocean shipping has sailed through particularly heavy weather, and all sectors

The United States is facing a two-fold challenge in Europe. The consolidation of Western Europe is g

It is widely agreed that the Uruguay Round trade negotiations are at a critical juncture. An importa

RACKETEERING CONJURES UP IMAGES of underworld bosses hatching extortion, bribery and loansharking sc

Many observers believe the opportunity for real agricultural reform is greater now than it has been

IN ITS LAST MONTHS IN OFFICE, the Reagan administration is attempting to burnish its image for the h

Left to their own devices, Japan's nouveaux riches seem perfectly capable of getting into embarrassi

It is evident that the U.S. Congress is going to beef up the Customs Service's budget for the coming

A unified internal market presents new opportunities for Europeans and presents new challenges for t

How can leadership roles be opened to women? How should the afflicted in the AIDS crisis be treated?

While the United States wrings its hands about gargantuan deficits, Taiwan has another problem: Reco

In an ironic historical twist, the legislatures of Western Europe's democracies are surrendering the

DRIVING A BIG RIG with a forged or duplicate operator's license is nothing new for thousands of truc

THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY'S reputation in Washington has become ever more like that of the boy who cried

I never know how to write about Mino X. Kyriakou. He's bigger than one life. The various com

The U.S. International Trade Commission has under way a fact-finding investigation of a free trade a

THE NEXT PRESIDENT of the United States, whether it's Michael Dukakis or George Bush, will get off t

PORTS OF THE OAKLAND-SAN FRANCISCO BAY are battling to recapture loss share of the West Coast contai

SOME AGENCIES ATTRACT TROUBLE and invite ridicule. There is no better example than the sideshow that

Here is a business quiz: Suppose you are a computer maker in dire need of a certain type of semi-con

A lack of raindrops is causing a drought in the Midwestern farm belt, but drops of a different kind

The July 6 Publisher's Notebook by Don C. Becker echoed the administration's misleading line on rand

AFTER SIX YEARS OF ECONOMIC STAGNATION, foreign debt remains an insurmountable problem for much of t

It is estimated that U.S. industry generates more than 200 million metric tons of hazardous waste ea

When doctors talk these days about the next revolution in medicine, the odds are they're thinking of

If I taught geography, I'd probably start the first class by showing Casablanca. Don't scoff

SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN Lloyd Bentsen's vice presidential campaign may keep him from spend

THESE ARE TOUGH TIMES for the Teamsters. Last week, the beleaguered labor union, already the target

CONGRESS IS ITCHING to get its hands on the labor dispute at the Chicago & North Western Transportat

LAST TIME WE LOOKED, the United States was running a foreign trade deficit somewhere over $10 billio

The federal tax on gasoline should rise from its present 9 cents a gallon to at least $1 a gallon to

Another tempest in a Brazilian teapot is on the White House stove. Two weeks ago, the White

Since the first five months of 1942, when stock prices and trading activity were depressed by some o

No one can deny the obvious: The Philippines' economy has taken off. The economic indicators show it

Nine years of government under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have unquestionably humbled the trad