Commentary

THINGS ARE LOOKING UP for the Reagan administration. The president's television address, plus the ap

As everyone knows the rain does not fall mainly on the plain. Nor does the slush merely flush the un

A TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS BILL, designed to clean up errors or oversights in the complex tax reform la

I was intrigued by Professor Wallace's piece, "Looking at the Wrong Numbers," (JofC, Feb. 3) because

The battle over U.S. textiles and apparel trade policy is about to be rejoined. Its outcome

To eliminate the trade deficit and service our debt, we must lower costs of production relative to p

EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT IT, but nobody does anything about it. That observation about the weather, pro

WILL THE REAL RONALD REAGAN please stand up? The figure on television Wednesday night dispelled any

The finance ministers and central bank governors of the larger industrial countries met in Paris ove

In a biting essay on James Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses, Mark Twain said There are 19 rules g

While much of the new federal wiretap act is confusing, one thing is clear: it establishes a lower l

STEPHEN BERGER, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, has come up wit

ENCOURAGING INTEREST in the sorry plight of the U.S.-flag merchant marine has been displayed in the

DEVELOPER DONALD TRUMP has walked off with an estimated $24 million profit by calling off his unwel

AMTRAK ONCE AGAIN IS ON THE BLOCK, and once again the Reagan administration is unlikely to find any

By now probably most people in the financial community have caught up with the fact that the United

As it was first proposed in September 1985, the rewrite of Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control a

For many months many conservative political analysts in Japan have expressed fears that Prime Minis

The ruling Conservative Party and the Labor Opposition have been thrown into turmoil by the voters o

When the citizens of Troy bought the Horse into their city, a seeming tribute to Trojan valor left b

TO PROVIDE CATASTROPHIC health insurance for the elderly, a pledge made in his 1986 State of the Un

The doleful awakening from carnival revelry on Ash Wednesday morning is a common theme in Brazilian

ALAN J. HERBERT, our insurance editor these past two years, reversed the usualprocedure. He

AS SPECULATION CONTINUES on who will be appointed to the next term as Federal Re serve chairman in A

In a dressing room at Malacanang Palace, where just a year ago Imelda Marcos might have stood choosi

My wife and I probably are members of a very exclusive group. We are among the very few in the count

IN WASHINGTON, WHERE ALL THINGS are possible, the Canadian trade negotiations have suddenly moved to

THE IRAN CONTRA AFFAIR is an obvious candidate for enshrinement as a case history at the Harvard Bus

The air and marine transport industries have declared war on drug trafficking. Global guidel

The true nature of the struggle going on at the top of the Chinese Communist Party remains as puzzli

WHAT'S IN A NAME? For General Motor's new Saturn division, the answer is aggravation. Saturn, which

WANT TO MAKE SOMEONE in the insurance industry cry? Remind him that the McCarran-Ferguson Act is a

The headline was right, but the editorial "Market Sets Truck Rates" (JofC, Feb. 19) really missed th

Americans and especially members of the scientific community have exaggerated the purely economic be

THERE'S A NEW MYSTERY in Washington. Budget revenues, for reasons the Treasury is unableto explain,

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY has taken a bashing lately from its trading partners on everything from the

Import Data Issue Not a New OneI read with interest your recent editorial regarding trade st

For more than two years, the Federal Reserve - with the active encouragement of the Reagan Administr

FARMERS DO IT, hard-pressed individuals do it, even giant corporations like Manville do it. Do what?

ON TORT LAW REFORM, boldness and courage did not abound at the American Bar Association's mid-winte