Commentary

Consolidations, relocations and layoffs - affecting more than 46,000 people in the past decade - hav

LIKE A PAIR OF LOOSE CANNONS on the deck, Congress and the administration continue to barrel headlon

DID YOU EVER FEEL left out because a close friend or a business associate forgot - conveniently or n

There is much talk about the need for American business to become more competitive in an increasingl

The bulls are trying to regain control of the stock market. Whether their charge will succeed, howev

A sweeping environment treaty for the protection of the fragile coastal seas of the South Pacific ha

As the trade bill debate focus shifts from the House of Representatives, which passed H.R. 3 on an i

The Monterey, a cruise ship that has been idle for nine years, is expected to resume operations in j

The European Community's bid to create a genuinely free and homogenous internal market for goods, se

There have been numerous stories in the Journal on the subject of preshipment inspections. These sto

THE SENSATIONAL NEWS of recent days has bumped more serious considerations about trade, the budget a

While straining with biomedical problems of literally life-and-death consequences, the Food and Drug

IT'S HARD TO PUT A PRICE on political leadership. But that's what many in Washington have been doing

Over the last several years a number of countries have hired private companies to, in effect, contro

THE UNITED STATES and Japan will follow up the recent Reagan-Nakasone talks with a meeting this week

THE PROBLEMS OF PREACHERS in the press have taken a turn with the news that TV evangelist Jimmy Swag

A heavyset woman on the subway last week gave me the idea. She was becoming more and more ir

NATIONAL AIRPORT, outside Washington, D.C. is one of the few airports in the country with a mass tra

There is hope. There may be a new trade law before the year is out. President Reagan, briefe

An article Thursday about proposed New York legislation for financial guarantee insurance misstated

WHEN THE UNITED STATES negotiated voluntary restraint agreements with 28 steel exporting nations in

HE DIDN'T GARNER big headlines in his recent appearance before the House Energy and Commerce subcomm

I enjoyed your Top of the Day story entitled Food for Thought (JofC, May 6). However, I feel

I pose a serious question: Are the Kremlin bigwigs immune from a whiff of corruption? In oth

During the 30 years in which I have been involved in insurance regulation, I have become increasingl

If it hasn't already come to your attention, it surely will over the next couple of weeks: June 5 wi

I came late to the free trade side of the economic argument. The overall argument itself was

Recently, after returning to my office from a short trip, I undertook to review past copies of The J

We have been told repeatedly by President Reagan that we have Soviet leaderMikhail Gorbachev

GARY HART'S BACKDOOR front-page problem has obscured a more important issue raised recently by the f

At a time when so much trade legislation deals with protection of U.S. markets, one U.S. statute sta

The Federal Reserve System finally took serious action last week to control the dollar crisis.

The one safe assumption about summits and other international meetings and conferences is that the l

LAST WEEK'S SUPREME COURT decision allowing railroad unions to picket carriers connecting with a roa

A U.S. SENATOR'S aide called recently to complain that one of our reporters had given her boss some

Even the weather is working in Margaret Thatcher's favor. Two weeks of glorious sunshine aro

THE GOVERNMENT OF SWEDEN is understandably upset by a scandal rocking its defense establishment. Acc

DOES IT BOTHER YOU when someone takes his time about cashing a check? Well consider the problem of U

George Herman, who should know, thinks television news was in trouble long before the recent merger

Don't give the Japanese all the credit for the U.S. bull market. You read that Japanese institutions