Commentary

A HEADLINE in Friday's Journal of Commerce is worth repeating. It read: Trade Receives Littl

THE BUZZWORD OF THE YEAR, for anyone who has been living in a cave and missed it, is competitiveness

IMPORTANT OFFICIALS from around the world were on hand in Geneva Thursday as the United Nations Conf

As demands for the ouster of Panama's strong-man, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, grow louder and more

Windows were broken, chimneys were toppled and buildings swayed throughout 16 states of the Midwest

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IN ITS CONTINUING QUEST for import protection, Ford Motor Co. has once again gone on the offensive.<

As the Senate debates far-reaching new trade legislation, it's time to consider the potential costs

THE HEARTBEAT OF AMERICA, today's Chevrolet, General Motors Corp.'s catchy advertising slogan, is cl

Don Richards Stephens, you could say, is about to take San Francisco banking back to its roots.<

N-o-w, s-e-n-a-t-o-r, the witness would begin in a slow, sad drone. Next came extravagant praise for

GROWING XENOPHOBIA has been a hallmark of the rapid transition of the United States from the world's

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is to be congratulated for maintaining the illusio

EVERYBODY WANTS TO CUT the federal budget deficit. But now, even the modest deficit-cutting effort C

The economy was in remarkably good shape at midyear - substantially stronger than the consensus esti

WHEN THE HISTORY BOOKS are written, a coherent and realistic policy toward foreign trade will not be

All talk and no action is the way some describe Japan's approach to its exploding trade advantage ov

THE SENATE IS RIGHTLY ANGERED that Japanese and Norwegian companies sold the Soviet Union equipment

The backwash from the scandal involving former Reagan aide Michael Deaver's lobbying efforts for Can

American Request Aims to Aid TravelerYour editorial (May 22) concluding that American Airlin

WE'RE ALL FOR CONSUMER protection, but we admit to more than a little puzzlement about Washington's

Had he understood Margaret Thatcher better, French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac would have bitten h

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION POLITICS is focusing greatly on economic issues, as Democrats and President Re

PRESIDENT REAGAN'S nomination of Robert Bork to the vacant seat on the Supreme Court puts the Ameri

The steel industry is an industry in crisis. Steel producers need to streamline and modernize but co

If Yung-Fa Chang could live his life over again, he would spend his days far and away from the conta

Canada has the most to gain from free trade with the United States, but protectionist sentiment pers

Jones Act Measure Is Not ProtectionistThis letter is in response to your editorial entitled,

They are talking about raising the Monitor, the Union ironclad that lies on the bottom off Cape Hatt

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THE COMMUTER AIRLINE INDUSTRY has demonstrated notable improvements in safety in recent years. But t

Preventing the circumvention of penalties imposed for unfair trading practices has posed a difficult

BOND MARKETS MAY BE unpredictable, but they can always be counted on for a fast reaction. No sooner

If opinion polls were votes and a federal election were held today, you would have to color Canada p

The eminent philosopher Casey Stengel taught us that: "They say you can't do it; but sometimes it do

THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION'S decision Wednesday not to reopen hearings on the proposed merge

Many Russians doubt that Mikhail Gorbachev's program of perestroika, or economic restructuring, will

AS THE SAYING GOES, He who pays the piper calls the tune. For years, U.S. defense contractors have b

BY EASING RESTRICTIONS on the employment of Mexican farm workers in the United States, the U.S. Imm

A few of Japan's most prominent financial leaders are now privately expressing worries about the sha