Commentary

AFTER FOUR YEARS of debate and compromise between parents' groups, physicians and pharmaceutical man

When the secretary of Transportation sits down with her senior staff, there is an empty chair for th

It is a city of hope, a city of contradictions, a city of dreams. In countless irrepressible, pulsat

NEAR THE END of September last year, finance ministers from the five leading industrial countries -

IVAN BOESKY has just given a reprieve to corporate America. In agreeing to settle Securities and Exc

The second prong of the New York Legislature's attempt to try to provide incentives to the insurance

UNISYS, the new corporate name of the combination of Burroughs Corp. and Sperry Corp., a $10 billion

WITH A SWEEPING TAX REFORM now in place in the United States, the pressure has increased sharply for

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's crusade for "popular capitalism with its naked appeal to financia

Risk arbitrage is not a profession for the faint of heart, Moira Johnston says. She quotes the fall

With the adjournment of the New York Legislature early in July and the signature of Gov. Mario Cuomo

Driving down a country road at 70 miles an hour my wife suddenly shouts, ''Look:" I slam on the bra

WHEN THE SOVIETS launched the Sputnik satellite in the 1950s, they took a great American idea and be

JAMES G. DUNAIF, a New Yorker who writes a Letter to the Editor to us a couple times a month, passed

The U.S. Maritime Administration last month published a report, Inventory of American Intermodal Equ

PRESIDENT REAGAN'S POCKET VETO of the maritime authorization bill may not have been a total surprise

AN AUSTRALIAN SUGAR CANE FARMER who lost his arm after being mauled by his pet crocodile pleaded tha

Who lost, who won in the recent embassy flap in with Moscow? The hostility persists. Western

Poll officials at Hoover school in Indio, near Palm Springs, Calif., found a unique way to safeguard

Ocean containership transportation is going through some real tough times. Some blame the problem o

The latest figures from Washington's official scorekeepers show that thePentagon controls nearly 75

U.S. EXPORTERS have a tough time competing in world markets. Part of the problem is barriers erected

Many Factors Prevail In DecommissioningThe article, "Nuclear Power's Missing Link," (JofC Oc

One of the most positive aspects of Africa's current economic crisis - in 1986 gross domestic produc

The media ought to meditate on the motto inscribed on the front of theNational Archives: "The past i

FILIPINOS LIKE DEFENSE MINISTER Juan Ponce Enrile who are upset with the policies and administrative

DAVID GOLDFARB, THE RUSSIAN GENETICIST, in the United States less than a month, has already experien

Leon H. Sullivan, the Baptist preacher from Philadelphia who developed widely recognized standards f

Last week's autumn statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson, with its surprise ann

SEN. NANCY L. KASSEBAUM, R-Kan., is best known these days as one of the senators who bucked the admi

FLORIDA TOURISM FOLKS unfortunately have dumped their "If You've Got It Bad" advertising campaign fo

Iranian and Iraqi air attacks against neutral vessels in the Persian Gulf strongly suggest that the

THE SURPRISING SCOPE of the Democratic victory in last week's Senate races has raised many questions

The treasurer for a major Northern California manufacturing company was interpreting the company's l

For high-octane gall in proclaiming its ethical purity, the scientific community has long been the r

AS MERGERS AND CONSOLIDATIONS proliferate among the U.S. airlines, travelers are beginning to see wi

THE WORD OUT OF WASHINGTON IS that President Reagan and the Republican Party may have lost control o

ANTHONY J. TOZZOLI, president of the New York Shipping Association, is not one to look a challenge

In a previous article, I presented a case for a Federal insolvency fund for the insurance industry,

Poor Harry Schlaudeman, the U.S. ambassador to Brazil. He can't indulge in a round of golf without b