Commentary

ENGLAND AND FRANCE are separated by a lot more than just water. Their policies on commerce and gover

RUSSIANS GO TO THE POLLS Sunday to choose a new parliament and constitution in an open election. Tha

Is this the future of democracy after the Cold War: A neo-fascist named Mussolini running against a

You thought 1993 was a big year for trade on Capitol Hill? Wait till next year. All Congress

MICHIGAN'S HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES passed a so-called trucking deregulation bill Tuesday.In fact, i

Innovation in new fields often comes from small start-up companies rather than large corporations. B

BA CODE-SHARING SHOULD BE LIMITEDIn response to the opinion article by Dick Mathias and Fran

NO ONE IS POPPING CHAMPAGNE CORKS, but the economic forecast is improving by the day. Wholesale buye

More than anything, Wall Street wants to believe that low inflation is here to stay. The New York Ti

Environmentalists are in the trade arena to stay. The precedent was set in crafting a North American

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY changed its name to the European Union in November, but it was the same old F

First the big freebies from drug companies were ruled out of bounds for doctors, thus eliminating th

For at least two years, the National Cancer Institute has been telling Americans to eat five serving

"Dismayed but not particularly surprised" probably best sums up the mood of Britain's shipowners aft

It may be easier to understand how an airplane flies than how an airline markets its service.

RUSSIA'S political future will be influenced heavily by Sunday's parliamentary elections. But the re

THE FEDERAL REGISTER, America's bureaucratic bible, is a repository of mangled English. But the Brit

A GATT WORLD TRADE deal is at hand. After seven years of slow torture, the outline of a final plan t

Is President Clinton trying to have it both ways? Can he simultaneously be a friend of labor and of

EUROPEAN INDUSTRIALISTS are proposing some sensible solutions for the continent's high unemployment.

The No. 2 computer corporation lays off 5,000 workers. The leader of "the big three" automakers down

The Clinton administration's export control bureaucracy - chiefly the State, Defense and Commerce de

LYING TO A JUDGE is a serious offense, but should a worker lose his federal labor rights because of

END THE MARITIME SUBSIDIESYour Washington bureau chief, Tom Connors, may be right that the 3

IF THE GOVERNMENT orders companies and workers to pay specified sums of money to politically appoint

Interactive, Shminteractive. No, no Luddism here. Or is it Ludditism? Who knows? Turns out t

Forty-eight hours after proclaiming that creation of a North American trade bloc, as outlined in the

America's trade deficit with Japan alarms economists and angers politicians. During the first half o

With the North American Free Trade Agreement now past the Congress, a new debate begins: How can the

Social Security is the Molotov cocktail of the 1990s. Open a conversationalwindow, toss it i

THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY is taking some much-needed steps to streamline its maze of regul

A RUSSIAN ELECTORAL COMMISSION cleared the way Wednesday for the nation's Communist Party toparticip

It's a sight even this newspaper, with its avid interest in floating objects, would have found amazi

Despite President Clinton's easier-than-expected victory in the fight over the North American Free T

THE TRANSPORTATION Research Board, which provides a scientific and technical forum for discussing tr

INDEPENDENT TRUCKERS struck the country last month, frustrated and angry over rising fuel prices. Bu

The American economy is at a turning point, on its way to reclaiming its historical role as the most

It's more than a little ironic that as Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan engages in a hammer a

The same business groups that unanimously supported the North American Free Trade Agreement are thre

The North American Free Trade Agreement is facing yet another peril, this timefrom Canada's