Commentary

LOGISTICS ESSENTIAL TO JUST-IN-TIMEA goal and benefit of Just-in-Time systems is to cut down

MAQUILADORAS, THE IN-BOND FACTORIES that have turned the U.S.-Mexican border into a beehive of manuf

Japan's central bank governor Satoshi Sumita remarked on his return from the recent meeting of the B

THE FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION took a small step this month that reinforces its commitment

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev would obviously like his East European colleagues to make their econ

Faced with the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement, the European Community's 1992 market integration pl

THE NAME MAY BE DROUGHT RELIEF, but the real purpose of the farm assistance bills now before Congres

THE TALK IS OF PEACE, but the war between Iran and Iraq remains bloody. Unexpectedly, the struggle h

For eight bloody years, the Iran-Iraq War has forced changes in many diplomatic, political and econo

BUILDING ROADS in developing countries has long been a major aim of the World Bank. But in a candid

THE NATIONAL POLITICAL CONVENTIONS, the pundits say, have become too predictable to merit prime time

For the first time since Ronald Reagan became president, the United States now has a unified foreign

The Democrats had a ball in Atlanta last week. They promised to cure social problems ranging from dr

Japanese businessmen can always find something to worry about, so it should be no surprise that the

HINTZ'S RETIREMENT WAS PLANNED IN '87Your July 15 article on Alex Mandl becoming chairman an

DROUGHT HAS ACCOMPLISHED what neither free-market government nor consumer protest has been able to a

THE LEADER OF CANADA'S LIBERAL PARTY, John Turner, may think he delivered a political masterstroke b

In June, 10 state attorneys general joined their colleagues from nine other states in charging 31 in

Two-thirds of the French population are going on vacation and most of them leave this weekend, pilin

SUPPORTERS OF PRESIDENTIAL nominee Michael Dukakis made it very clear last week at the Democratic Na

WILLIAM J. MCCARTHY, THE NEW PRESIDENT of the Teamsters union, has his workcut out for him.

INSURERS LOVE STATE REGULATION, so much so that 14 industry trade groups call their joint campaign a

Negotiations between the Philippines and the United States concerning the future of Subic Bay Naval

As my youngest son walked forward to obtain his high school diploma on the football field where he p

In the queer mess of human destiny, historian William Woodward reminds us, the determining factor is

ANIMAL RIGHTS STATEMENTS CLARIFIEDNow that I've received a dozen copies of your publication'

It is fascinating to be present at the creation of a new application of international law, covering

RAINS IN THE MIDWEST have not damped Washington's feverish efforts to send emergency relief to farme

The debate over the value of foreign capital investments in the United States is proceeding nowhere

Demand for drugs takes the form of electric charges rushing through a barrage of chemicals to flood

TRY AS THEY MIGHT, the Democrats of the 1980s can't get some wrongheaded ideasfrom the 1970s

Maybe the best name for it is Ed's Latest Mistake. That may seem too harsh a reading of the

THE WORRYWARTS ARE ALREADY FRETTING over this week's revelation that no U.S. banks are among the wor

The size and scope of federal taxes and the question of who should pay them are sure to play a centr

The president must do it. So must the secretaries of agriculture, commerce, labor and treasury. And

A CLASH OF SPECIAL INTERESTS is threatening to bring the the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to

WILL EUROPE'S ECONOMIC INTEGRATION mean open markets or just more protection? American diplo

Over the past several years, without much fanfare, the electric utility industry has been steadily m

The Social Security retirement and disability trust fund jumped by $22 billion in 1987 and will grow

In Bonn, the West German capital, a Trojan Horse is being offered. The horse, in the form of