Commentary

Opinion polls consistently show that Americans are cynical toward government. Too often, such cynici

ALASKA OIL SHOULDN'T BE EXPORTEDYour Sept. 9 opinion page article, "Lifting Alaska's Oil Exp

WITH THE NEW WORLD TRADE PACT under assault in some countries, it may seem an odd time to push for e

Each year, the Internal Revenue Service reports that a small number of high- income earners(over $20

It was a wonderful vacation if you like public humiliation, stress, 6 a.m. wake-up calls, long bus r

Wall Street was shocked by the surge in wholesale prices in August. Stocks, bonds and the dollar all

AMTRAK, the nation's passenger railroad, will receive a record $1.1 billion in federal subsidies nex

The Intergovernmental Conference that will shape the future of the European Union is two years away,

A little less than a year ago, the North American Free Trade Agreement seemed consigned tofailure, c

MTBE IS A SAFE GASOLINE ADDITIVEYour informative article on the continued efforts of some et

IMAGINE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT charging a user fee to file income taxes and ''use" the services of t

WITH NO COMPROMISE in sight on extending President Clinton's trade negotiating authority, itis worth

Post-communist history has been a sad chronicle of economic failures, ethnic wars and political uphe

Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas won headlines with his recent call for postponing a vote

THE WORLD BANK and the International Monetary Fund, created at the close of World War II tostabilize

For a while there, it looked as if the U.S. government's concern with the latest wave of Cuban boat

The day that interstate bank branching proponents have hoped for - and opponents have dreaded - is a

Editor's note: America's 21-year-old ban on exporting Alaskan oil has been the subject of renewed in

The rate of absorption of clever but awful technologies into our economy and culture is difficult to

THE UNITED STATES CANNOT BE INDIFFERENT to important events in Canada, its chief trading partner. Th

Once the world's most important textile crop, hemp was banned in the late 1930s because smoking its

GOVERNMENTS limit the number of airlines that can fly between pairs of countries, but airlines incre

When Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed their peace declaration last September,

The Clinton administration is headed for a showdown with Japan and other nations on Sept. 30 when it

SENATE REPUBLICANS have become co-conspirators in the attack on the trade bill. Sen. Minority Leader

As the economy rounds the Labor Day corner into the home stretch for 1994, investors should prepare

TAIWAN'S BID to enter the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is already producing results for co

Transportation costs play an increasingly important role in global trade. That's especially true alo

TRACTOR-TRAILERS require considerably more driving skill than small delivery vans, a fact Congress r

With a Senate vote approaching to ratify a United Nations treaty to ban chemical weapons, critics ar

Is inflation poised to move higher, perhaps to the double-digit levels last seen from 1979 to 1981?<

FREE TRADE in the Asia Pacific region, home to many of the world's powerhouse economies, is a heady

And so a breakthrough in Ireland. With the announcement by the Irish Republican Army that "there wil

Does your VCR always flash the same time - 12:00? The blinking digital clock on the videocas

PROSPECTS FOR PEACE in Northern Ireland could bring something else the region desperately needs: a s

LABOR DAY in developed nations has traditionally been associated with unions. The holiday, after all

PROTECTING OCEANS, FISH - AND TEXTILESYour editorial on fish ("Fish Story," Aug. 25, Page 6A

Labor Day weekend - the last holiday of summer - will see a record 33.3 million travelers on the roa

Clarkstown, N.Y., had a problem. Several years ago it built a new solid waste processing facility th

FIXING THE RECORD ON AUTO CONTAINERSThank you for your coverage of the new AutoRailer Interm