Commentary

In 1984 - the last year for which complete data are available - about 40 million tons of cargo moved

The "Trade and International Economic Policy Reform Act," the trade bill passed in May by the House

NOW THAT THE PRICE OF GASOLINE HAS DECREASED, we have been besieged by various groups over the last

An article in the Aug. 8 issue of The Journal of Commerce, noting statements made by New York state

BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT JOSE SARNEY'S visit to the United States last week demonstrated there is, in Mr.

The United States and Canada are to wrap up next week the first stage of their exploratory talks tow

Shippers, Ports Like Cargo Data ServiceI read with interest your article, "New Forecasting S

IN TWIN LAKES, COLO., the town stages an annual event that Congress might consider emulating when tr

CONGRESS SIMPLY MUST recognize the need for enactment of the pending water resources legislation, wi

U.S. specialists came away with at least three important conclusions from the recently ended interna

As Congress moves toward the public sale of Conrail, a debate has bubbled up over whether other cha

CALIFORNIA GOV. GEORGE DEUKMEJIAN told a story a couple of years ago about two hikers who encountere

What does the new generation of Soviets seem to want to do? Especially as Soviet society - in Moscow

As the the Philippines election approached in February, corridors in Washington buzzed with intellig

ISSUANCE OF TAX-EXEMPT SECURITIES has been misused and abused by local and state governments. But th

Folklore has it that the heavenly angels are partial to a drop of scotch, which explains the 1 perce

ATTENTION ALL NAVY RETIREES. Those of you who miss slop on a shingle or its equivalent and whose leg

The Soviet Union is metamorphosing. General Secretary Gorbachev, backed by Russia's post-World-War-I

CORAZON COJUANGCOS AQUINO is in the United States. This brave lady, who chose to run for and win the

DESPITE SOME RECENT statistical evidence of an economic pickup, many analysts still expect one more

THIS YEAR OR NEXT, Congress must deal with shipper complaints arising out of the Staggers Rail Act

''The real question is not why we are purchasing Sea-Land, but why such a transaction has not occur

UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THE TAX REFORM BILL sliding down the congressional home stretch has been affecting

LEGISLATION FOR THE PUBLIC SALE of the government's 85 percent interest in the Consolidated Rail Cor

Two years ago this month, Canada's Tories were swept to power with a lopsided majority in an electio

Suspicion between the world's two major superpowers seems to be on the rise with tensions mounting o

Late in the evening on Saturday, Aug. 16, in the final hours of their negotiations, the chairmen of

Are the Japanese in the future going to use their relatively new-found economic power wisely? Lots o

The U.S. trade deficit in July, announced in the last week of August, was at a record level. The new

As the nuclear-free promise of the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars," founders on awesome

THE BLUSTER coming from the world's trade ministers as they prepare for the upcoming General Agreeme

Debt. It touches everyone. But, to paraphrase Mark Twain, while everybody talks about debt, nobody d

THE MASTER CONTRACT AGREEMENT reached in Washington last week between the International Longshoremen

The Australian Design Centre's prime location, close to the harbor in the fashionable Rocks area of

THERE MAY BE A BRIGHT SIDE to the arrest and subsequent charging with espionage in the Soviet Union

PHONE CALLS, 182 of them over a six-month period, were made to sexually explicit recordings from the

Elizabeth Hanford Dole, transportation secretary, finally has acknowledged what has been obvious for

THE SUSPICIONS OF A CYNICAL TAXPAYER have been confirmed. The tax "reform" effort in Washington is a

ORGANIZED LABOR CALLS A PERSON who crosses a picket line a scab, an ugly expression to describe wha

At this writing, a fellow American reporter, Nicholas Daniloff, is sitting in a Moscow cell charged