Commentary

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

US Training Program In Panama DecriedWhat a wonderful country we live in! In a recent articl

THE RECENT DEATHS of two of the United States' most prominent economists, Walter W. Heller and Arth

In hearings earlier this year, some members of the Senate Finance Committee expressed the feeling th

Jacques Santer, the prime minister of Luxembourg, can be excused for feeling smug this week as the l

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV'S impressive program of economic and political reform poses a majorforeign policy

What is a worse disease than AIDS? Confidentiality. Man one day will undoubtedly find a cure for AID

Those who favor reforming the international monetary system often argue that a return to fixed excha

DEREGULATING NATURAL GAS has proven to be one of the trickiest undertakings of the Reagan administra

Dole: GOP Race Wide Open WASHINGTON BUREAUVICE PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH may still enjoy a lead

JAMES MILLER, THE PRESIDENT'S budget director, drinks from a coffee mug labeled Boss," with a list o

The Uruguay Round of trade talks under way in Geneva will be vastly differentfrom the previo

This is a story about Ensign and later Lieutenant Donald Pretzel, USNR. That's not his real name, bu

Unless Congress adopts a rational pro-competitive regulatory policy forfinancial services, t

COMPETITIVENESS, LIKE MOTHERHOOD and apple pie, is hard to be against. Judged by the words they use,

FINANCIALLY STRAPPED states are endlessly creative when it comes to raising revenue. Business taxes

WHAT A DIFFERENCE two weeks make! When the leaders of the seven largest market economies met in Veni

On television newsreels and in the official reports of the World Bank, Africa is always portrayed as

ANYBODY CAN MAKE A MISTAKE, but the Department of Justice's admitted mistake in the General Dynamics

''If you really want to do something and work hard enough, you can do it. Here in America, you have

Postwar federal support for technological research often has left one critical research area an orph

Wall Street has a head start on its traditional summer rally. The stock market has posted a new hig

THE TWO AILING GIANTS of the bus business, Greyhound Lines Inc. and Trailways Corp., are proposing t

The core functions of government are frequently cited in the extensive list of programs that compri

ON ATLANTA'S PEACHTREE STREET, yet another new office tower has sprouted amid the dogwoods. With a h

Dumping, the Senate Committee on Finance has informed us, is one of the "most pernicious practices

As rains lashed southern Britain last week and temperatures struggled to reach 60 degrees it could o

Comments on Rand Were OffensiveIt is not unusual to discuss a person like Mr. Greenspan in t

CONGRESS, AN AMAZINGLY accurate weather vane, has tested the winds and seen that they are blowing co

Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, has said that "a battle of monumental proportion is brewing over Alaska'

It has been over two years since the dollar began its long decline from peak levels, yet the long-aw

If you are reading this among a batch of photo-copied news clips put together by your public relatio

THE AIRLINE BATTLE for market share through fare cuts seems to be over, at least for the time being.

THE BIG TRADE BILL the Senate is due to take up this week contains a few sleepers. One provi

ONCE AGAIN, BRAZIL'S President Jose Sarney has a plan. Prices have been frozen. Automatic wage index

Debate on the Senate floor next week will offer a key to the prospects of a major trade law during t

On Wednesday, the Reagan administration transmitted to the Congress proposed legislation that will m

A private organization recruits and equips a guerrilla force in the United States for an expedition

RAIDERS, JUNK BONDS AND GREENMAIL have America agog. In direct response to widespread public alarm o

OZONE IS IN. Amid fears that widely used chemicals are rapidly destroying the ozone layer that shiel