Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

A decade of political uprisings and an incursion by U.S. troops nearly three years ago left the smal

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

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

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

A FEW DAYS AGO - too few - we said we'd go out on a limb and forecast continued Republican control

A scientific research and training institute deploying remote-sensing space technology for the rescu

FIFTEEN MAIL CARRIERS in Viborg, Denmark, have needed medical treatment for dog bites so far this ye

Japan scooped the other advanced democracies in October by putting on what many here regard as the m

THEY USED TO SAY that man would never go to the moon, because at the speed of the fastest racehorse,

State insurance commissioners recently testified before a subcommittee of the House Banking Committe

Seventeen years ago, Takako Doi entered the lower house of the Japanese Parliament as a member of t

WITH FUR TRADERS paddling their canoes to the sound of bagpipes, George Simpson made his maritime tr

Differing View Given On 'Discrepancies'In your editorial of Oct. 20, "Marad Ms. Speaks," you

The central question facing those studying tort reform and the insurance industry is how we move to

''I SOMETIMES FEEL that some American administration officials don't take a realistic attitude towar

The jury on Big Bang is still out, at least as far as arguably the most important group of all is co

In drafting the New York Advisory Commission report on liability insurance, a central objective was

A reporter should never pretend to be an expert on a country after a one-week visit, especially when

THE LACKLUSTER CONGRESSIONAL AND GUBERNATORIAL campaigns (for the most part) should end up in non-de

USUALLY WE PUT RESPONSES to editorials in our Letters to the Editor box. But out of sense of fairne

CONTROL OF THE SENATE, the big prize in tomorrow's election package, will hinge on the Democrats' ab

Like most people in the world these days, I have been thinking a lot aboutMikhail S. Gorbach

NOW THAT NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT is becoming plausible, military analysts are saying we can't afford it

IN THE NORMAL COURSE of contract bargaining between labor and management, a union's negotiators may

WHEN IS A SMEAR CAMPAIGN not a smear campaign? That's an important question for the voters o

Next week, with the congressional, state and local elections, is a good time to remember that the vo

One of the early beneficiaries of the campaign against apartheid in South Africa was the Canadian Ma

The current procession of East European visitors to China and China's better relations with the Sovi

Maryland will focus prominently in next week's congressional elections, in particular as far as U.S.

IT TOOK 10 YEARS, but all the parties involved with the ports and with waterway transportation are t

THOMAS W. GLEASON, the 85-year-old president of the International Longshoremen's Association, has c

The African Development Bank Group (AFDB), the continent's largest financing institution, is in the

There's no telling how many pending national grievances in need of redress are due to earlier redres

On Oct. 22 the U.S. Justice Department announced its plan to implement the recommendations of the Po