Commentary

When you buy a new computer or fax machine to do work at home, you expect it to let you write faster

LIFE'S A BEACH for many Greeks, who like to dance and drink til dawn even if the revelry leaves them

If it were any other deadly indoor pollution that is costing us thousands of lives and billions of d

The Clinton administration is expected to brief Congress this week on its long-awaited proposals for

In his campaign for his health-care reform plan, President Clinton has said repeatedly the people ar

DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE has never been a major problem in the transportation industries. No commercia

It wasn't a rebel uprising like the one that rocked the south of Mexico on New Year's Day and sent s

President Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Hosokawa meet today to address economic issues under t

Mired in an economic slump, Germany today is focused on one overarching question: When will the rece

AFTER NEARLY TWO PARALYZING WEEKS, the Canadian government has ordered striking longshoremenon the c

THE BANANA TRADE is a slippery business in Europe, which still limits importsfrom Latin Amer

SELDOM has a routine state visit sparked as much ill will from the host as tomorrow's appearance in

THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAIDThe Jan. 20 letter by Martin Foley of the National Motor Freig

When American Airlines' flight attendants struck the company in November, President Clinton personal

I probably would not be writing this column if: 1. I had not covered federal budgets through

After months of dithering, Federal Reserve officials finally decided last week to allow their target

FOURTEEN YEARS of ferocious litigation between rival manufacturers Brother Industries and Smith Coro

President Clinton is pursuing an industrial policy whose goal is to boost employment by subsidizing

Last month, the top civil servant at Japan's Ministry of Finance paid a call on the head of the Soci

BLAME IS NEVER IN SHORT SUPPLY in a strike, and this week's UPS-Teamsters flare-up was no exception.

The rush is on. By lifting the 19-year-old trade embargo against Vietnam, the Clinton administration

Reading the English press and listening to the British government over the past week would give one

LET'S SEE THE RECORDS OF TAA MEMBERSAs a non-vessel-operating common carrier, I have been fo

FEDERAL SPENDING on transportation is, by any measure, a small part of the government's budget. Of t

FISCAL RESTRAINT is a virtue Bill Clinton would just as soon not embrace. He came to office promisin

A couple of years ago, President Clinton's old friend from Oxford, Labor Secretary Robert Reich, wro

Recovery for Africa's long-depressed economies is imminent. Historically a bit player in the

PRESIDENT CLINTON'S costly and coercive health-care plan is losing ground fast. Last week the Busine

An increase in the vessel tonnage tax on all vessels entering U.S. ports remains the most likely Cli

I recently discovered a treasure-trove of data on American companies doing business in postwar Japan

TRANSIT OPERATORS DEFEND COMPETITIONIn his Jan. 27 opinion article, "Reversing a Costly Priv

Every U.S. administration in the last 20 years has looked with dismay at Japan's growing economic st

EMBARGOES ARE INTENDED to punish our enemies, yet America's trading ban withVietnam has done

FOR MANY AMERICANS, the recent debate on the Vietnam trade embargo has come down to this: Has Hanoi

THE DEPARTURE of two members of the Federal Reserve Board gives President Clinton an important oppor

It ranks not in the national psyche with the Bobbitts, Buttefuocos or the affair Gillooly-Harding, b

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA), the branch of the Department of Transportation responsible

In a television interview broadcast in the United States shortly before the congressional vote on th

CALIFORNIA, in addition to its other problems, has America's worst air pollution - and therefore its

Can this be so? Can it be true that the Labor Department is emerging as one of the new power centers