Commentary

THE COST OF MOVING cargo through a seaport is based on many factors, only one of which is longshore

The mere mention of new technology is usually enough to raise the hackles of Britain's trades unions

CONGRESSMEN SPEND a lot of time griping about other nations' non-tariffbarriers to trade. Th

Recent demonstrations in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia provided a new reminder to Soviet leader Mikh

On June 11, 1987, the nation's air traffic controllers voted 2-1 to form the National Air Traffic C

IT'S HARD TO GO FAR in any major city without running into the homeless. Train stations and bus term

WHEN THE NOMINATION of C. William Verity Jr. as secretary of commerce comes before the Senate Commer

The participation of the Norwegian firm Kongsberg Trade - a division of Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk - in

Time to Point Finger At CanadaI noted in your Aug. 12 issue some comments made by Leonard H.

There was no television 160 years ago when Samuel F.B. Morse founded The Journal of Commerce. No rad

Americas' two biggest car companies and the United Auto Workers Union have begun the most critical l

THE STEEL INDUSTRY HAS EXTRACTED a lot from the U.S. taxpayer, all in the name of saving basic indus

The name of Rep. Dante Fascell, D-Fla., was misspelled in a letter published in Tuesday's edition of

Although I am not much of a chess player, I am an expert at making a particular move. It inv

A recent Journal of Commerce editorial ("Who Needs a Fleet?", Aug. 17) notes the disinterest of the

An U.S. ship, filled with U.S. grain, sails to the port of a U.S. trading partner. One might expect

No phase of the Uruguay Round trade negotiations in Geneva is likely to be trickier, or more frustra

THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT'S much-debated decision not to build the Lavi fighter plane is a victory for

OVERTHROWING A DICTATORSHIP is one thing. Establishing a democracy is altogether another.As the Phil

Alan Greenspan has hardly had time to find his way to the tennis courts at the Federal Reserve Board

Not content with eating Big Macs, watching Dynasty and following U.S. football, Britain seems intent

WHEN SECRETARY OF STATE William Seward bought Alaska from Czar Alexander II in 1867 for two cents an

The loss of reinvestment tax deferral for U.S.-owned shipping, which resultedfrom some last

'Who Needs a Fleet?' Took Brave StandI would like to congratulate The Journal of Commerce on

TO HEAR THE BIG defense contractors tell it, they don't expect anything when they hire retired gener

AIDS, THE 20th CENTURY counterpart to ancient leprosy and the bubonic plague, is casting a deadly sh

At the turn of this century, China had a problem. Although it recognized the superiority of Western

When the Senate returns from its summer recess, one of the first bills it will consider will be cata

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION is still 15 months away, but the maritime unions have begun writing checks

TENNESSEE SEN. ALBERT GORE JR. gained some much-needed attention in the Aug. 23 Democraticdebate in

COMMENT ON THE TIMES: The number of workers producing steel in the United States now is about the sa

Having adopted tax reforms that were widely deemed unpassble, will politics repeat with a national h

I was upset to read a letter to the editor from a representative of the Australian Meat and Livestoc

THE STATE DEPARTMENT SHOULD GO back to Diplomacy 101. It needs to brush up on its facts. It also nee

The USS Hidalgo was built during World War II for the Navy, but through a series of misadventures, n

Stock market participants waltzed in their own private paradise most of the time last week, obliviou

At Oregon Inlet, at the northern tip of Hatteras Island, there are the remains of a fishing trawler

SEVERAL YEARS AGO, Judge Harold Ackerman in U.S. District Court, Newark, N.J., ruled that Local 560

IT'S INEVITABLE, we suppose, when under oath Marine colonels boast that they have lied to Congress a

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