Commentary

EVER WONDER WHY THINGS seem so mixed up? By more than six to one, Americans say their own personal

THE FAIRCHILD-FUJITSU affair raises questions about the direction of U.S. trade policy. Foremost is:

Is the competitiveness fever perverting academic values by putting money- making industrial goals ah

Evidence of the heavy toll the yen's sharp appreciation since the autumn of 1985 is taking on Japan'

If Massachusetts nuclear power groupies didn't get their daily fill of the Seabrook nuclear power pl

WHO WILL POLICE THE POLICEMEN? One of Vice Admiral John M. Poindexter's final acts as national secur

Propagating the Myth Of Tort ExplosionI was saddened to read that The Journal of Commerce is

CAN A FOOLPROOF DRUG and alcohol test be devised? That, it seems to us, is the only question involve

Children play with video games while their parents doze on deck. Teen-agers watch a film in the cin

Your editorial, "Give Amtrak Away," (JofC, March 4) correctly identifies our association as one of t

Phil Caldwell is the kind of person who disappears in a crowd. His gray suits match his gray hair an

A FAMILIAR QUESTION - Why doesn't the United States have a maritime policy? - was heard during the H

IF A BOONDOGGLE is "any project on which government funds are wasted" (Safire's Political Dictionary

IS THERE A CHANCE there will be no budget agreement this year? Despite suggestions by many that the

SLOWLY, ALMOST IMPERCEPTIVELY, the Office of the United States Trade Representative has begun to fle

Over the last six years, there has been no affirmative U.S. trade policy. Rather than a government p

Bill Bradley, the senior U.S. senator from New Jersey, came by to visit us in our offices on Wall S

COLLEGE STUDENTS, FARMERS, veterans, small businessmen and other borrowersfrom the federal g

Although each one of us wants to be treated as an individual and perceives much of life in "ego" or

NOT LONG AGO the U.S. Customs Service and customhouse brokers were fighting tooth and nail. Customs

If Hong Kong were a country, its population of six million would leave it ranking as a middle-sized

Today, we face stiff competition from abroad in almost all of our industrial sectors. Although limit

SLICING UP THE PORK: That's how one congressional staffer referred to the so- called demonstration p

In the movie, The Gods Must Be Crazy, a soda bottle, dropped from the skies by an airline pilot, lan

WITH THE ECONOMY BUMPING ALONG a slow-growth course that sometimes alarms andrarely inspires

THE NEWS - BARE-BONE EVENTS UNADORNED with editorial opinion - sometimes proves a more telling comme

The U.S. economy is at a crossroads. Foreign competition matters as never before. Changes in our co

I am concerned over the negative impact that foreign imports are having on our nation's economy. In

Message on Fuels Hits Nail on HeadYour recent editorial, "Keep Fuel Options Open," Feb. 18,

Canada's financial services industry is about to undergo a sea change that will put it in the forefr

The rapidly deteriorating position of the United States in international trade is the most important

IS INFLATION ON THE WAY BACK? It is, if you give credence to the leading inflation index compiled by

AIRLINES IN THE UNITED STATES are inviting re-regulation. In their determination to meet cut-rate co

We should ponder William Cotter's concerns about administration plans to abolish automobile fuel eff

Since the November 1986 election, all the public and private signals comingfrom Washington h

OF THE MANY BUZZWORDS connected with trade legislation these days, one in particular carries ominous

One of Britain's leading banks suffered some horrible publicity a few years ago when an exasperated

THE HEAD OF THE MARITIME ADMINISTRATION, John Gaughan, told of the agency's policies and objectives

GREAT BRITAIN'S SHIPPING INDUSTRY is becoming alarmed at the prospect of a shortage of deck officers

US Does Support Its Merchant FleetRep. Walter B. Jones' article, "Support the U.S. Merchant