Commentary

FOR THE LAST HALF CENTURY, a gaping hole has existed in the nation's truck safety laws - a hole big

SIMPLE FAIRNESS DICTATES the Interstate Commerce Commission reconsider its decision of last July th

A delicate balance exists between export controls and trade promotion.Excessively restrictiv

Larry Speakes, President Reagan's former chief spokesman, is heading up communications for Merrill

OXYMORONS ABOUND in Washington, and the regulators of our merchant marine frequently employ one of t

THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT'S STANCE that present exchange rates are satisfactory surprises a number of

IF THERE WERE ANY DOUBTS that the burgeoning securities scandal has spread beyond U.S. borders, they

Some of my best friends are, or have been, press agents. I thought I had better say that, ri

Finance ministers from the developing countries voiced great concern here this week about a slowdown

A great U.S. newspaper, looking for reasons behind the "spy scandal" involving marines and a dazzlin

A GROUP OF FARMERS, with no apparent affiliation or even any designated leader, successfully shut do

TWICE NOW IN recent weeks, important officials from Japan and West Germany have dismissed the notio

The latest report from the race for riches through science is that Japan is on its way to dominating

SOMETIMES IT SEEMS THE GOVERNMENT and industries pepper us with more economic statistics than we kno

The frustration of trying to conduct a constructive engagement policy with the Reagan administration

This was going to be a column about President Reagan's effort last week to prevent a congressional o

To Understand Umbrella MayhemIn my long time observation of the annoyances of survival in Ne

JUST WHEN FREE TRADE negotiations with Canada finally seem to be moving merrily along, another obsta

The economy is off to a good start in 1987. Total employment posted a solid 3 percent gain d

IF THERE'S ONE group that should be worried about a tit-for-tat trade war between the United States

The stunning victory by Christian Democrats and their coalition partners, the Free Democrats, in Hes

The express trains pulling into Euston Station in North London are carrying more Irish passengers th

TRADITIONALLY, THE ROLE OF shippers associations has been limited to pooling cargo for the purposes

Whenever goods are transported in interstate or foreign commerce, very likely the liability of the c

In the last article we noted the change in emphasis placed on civil justice system reform by spokesm

A STORM IS BREWING over the Reagan administration's proposal to cover a greater percentage of the Fe

THE WORLD'S FINANCE MINISTERS and central bankers gather here this week for the spring meetings of t

THE JAPANESE REGARD AMERICAN lectures on economic matters as counterproductive and hypocritical. But

The story goes that there was this devout Catholic nun in the Philippines who talked with Jesus eve

''The relationship between the United States and Japan is the most important bilateral relationship

There isn't a chance of a snowball in hell that the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit target of $108 bil

Charles Townsend Copeland, a beloved Harvard professor of English beginning in 1925, called his favo

THE TERM "BURNOUT" has become more and more a part of our lexicon. We hear it applied to athletes, c

TODAY MARKS THE 100TH BIRTHDAY of the Interstate Commerce Commission, a good time to reflect on the

THE UNITED STATES was founded on a system of sovereign states joined by a strong central government.

THE INDIANS ARE PRECIOUS. For years, New Dehli has pestered the United States for clearance to buy a

Back at the ranch, which sprawls over a half acre of Virginia countryside, we get a lot of unwanted

The mind is an unruly thing, which revels in playing practical jokes on its owner. For examp

The thousands of severely retarded children confined to state institutions are among the most helple

ON ONLY TWO OCCASIONS - World War II and the 1973 Arab oil embargo - has the federal government take