Commentary

WHY THE JONES ACTIs Good For AmericaI Am Writing in response to a John Binetti's March 19 op

The administration and the textile industry have agreed on a voluntary code setting minimum workplac

As Congress begins its work on the federal budget, one item sure to receive intense scrutiny is fore

The impending sale of Oakland, Calif.-based APL to Neptune Orient Lines of Singapore is putting a sp

It's time to talk turkey about pork. As the debate over this year's reauthorization of America's cor

President Dwight Eisenhower may have thought the interstate highway system was the greatest thing si

A legal abuse is threatening research and development and technology licensing by many companies, ye

President Clinton loves to crow about the drop in the federal deficit since he came to Washington. '

The United States and the European Union have agreed on a cease-fire in their yearlong battle over t

Sukhoi Log (which is Russian for ''Dry Gulch''), located in the hills of the Irkutsk region of south

What will replace downsizing? Will it be innovation, growth, knowledge or some other magic word that

Twice in the 1980s, federal appeals courts threw out ''must carry'' rules crafted by the Federal Com

TRADE SHOULD BE SUBJECTTO RULES OF RECIPROCITYOn your April 3 editorial page, there is an in

Washington's revolving door took another swift turn this week with the announced departure of two

Say yes to drugs. That is the governing inclination on both sides of the Atlantic. We might as well

As millions of taxpayers struggle with the last-minute chore of completing their tax returns by toda

And then there was one - big U.S.-owned container shipping line, that is. Neptune Orient Lines' prop

The TWA 800 crash, still lacking a definitive cause, reminds every past and potential international

Felled by a Serbian assassin on June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand their to the Austro-Hungaria

The millions of American taxpayers who wait until the last minute to get right with the government m

The ongoing uproar about foreign nationals buying influence in the U.S. elections has caused public

Earlier this month the shareholders of MCI - a successful upstart telephone company - approved a $23

The U.S. Navy is maneuvering to sink a whole herd of cows.Aye, aye, sir. Right full udder.

European trade unions are launching a series of mass marches beginning April 14 to protest high unem

The U.S. Supreme Court had an opportunity earlier this month to strike down a law requiring cable co

Trade ministers from Western Hemisphere nations who will meet in Brazil next month to consider launc

For the typical homeowner, electricity is a monopoly service: One either pays the power company or c

Why is the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, a small, profitable government-owned business wi

More than 1,000 Albanians have been killed or wounded since that country's rebellion against its dic

As welcome as last week's announcement was that CSX Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. had agreed on a

Alfredo del Mazo, the movie-star handsome candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party

After seven lean years, North Korea desperately needs food and development aid. So desperately, in f

The latest draft treaty texts for the European Union being prepared in advance of this summer's summ

As attention turns toward expanding the North American Free Trade Agreement to include Chile and oth

It's coming.Barely a year after Congress cleared the way for competition in local telephone

Reuters, the worldwide information conglomerate, sponsored a forum at New York City's Baruch College

An interim ruling last month by a World Trade Organization dispute panel, calling on the European Un

The looming April 15 deadline is focusing attention on the complexities of the federal income tax. S

Japan's accident-prone nuclear power program has sustained another embarrassing setback. Officials a

AUSTRIA'S RIGHT-WING PARTYTARGETS AN INSIDERS' SYSTEMIn his March 25 opinion article, ''Aust