Commentary

THERE'S A GAME THAT THEY PLAY in the trucking industry. It goes like this: First, a bunch of

Tadao Sawaki, a Japanese bank executive, failed to notice two men carrying machine guns approaching

PITY POOR KARL MARX. One after another, the governments that ruled Eastern Europe in his name have a

The U.S. economy is sliding down the slippery slope of recession. Total employment rosea scant 0.3 p

The longer U.S. trade deficits have persisted, the more trade friction has grown. One ofthe issues c

To read the latest edition of "Britain 1990," the government's official guide for foreigners to the

A recent meeting between Israeli and American government economists in Washington concluded that in

A STRONG BILL TO COVER THE COST OF cleaning up oil spills stands on the verge of congressional passa

Last week marked the swearing in of a new president of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel, who was until a

The World Bank shortly may resume lending to China, but China won't soon get another prize it seeks

IN MATTERS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE, perception often is as important as reality. For that rea

Costa Rica isn't a very big place. If you want to run for public office, you don't do it in a very b

IN THE FACE OF LEGAL UNCERTAINTY and political pressure, the U.S. Department of Transportation has d

What if Manuel Antonio Noriega were finally brought to justice in the United States? The invasion of

FLAG IMPORT BAN HITS FREEDOM OF CHOICESome "patriotic" groups and legislators are proposing

A CLEARER WARNING has rarely been issued. But it appears that not even the sorry saga of New England

THE RETIREMENT OF NEARLY 1,500 New York dockworkers is good news for users of the nation'slargest co

A few years ago, "Genscherism" became an epithet as West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Gensc

The suddenness of the apparent end of the Cold War has left this city, and probably a few other worl

A PICTURE OF A STAGNANT ECONOMY is becoming clearer by the day. Each morning's paper brings news of

The upheaval in Eastern Europe that set history on a new course also has straightened out some kinks

Much time and energy here are devoted to proving there is a significant difference between the Repub

The 1950s was the American Decade, the 1970s a decade that belonged to OPEC, and the 1960s is still

The 1990s are off to a good start. By any reasonable standard, the world is at peace. Democracy is o

FROM THE RISE of the microprocessor to the fall of the Berlin wall, the 1980s was a decadeof the une

All of us who love the sea should give a resounding welcome to the first year of the last decade of

Stories of foreign companies buying control of U.S. real estate and businesses leap from the headli

Out of the mouths of babes: After the big flap over the so-called Thanksgiving Day mistake by the Fe

ABOUT 500,000 TIMES A DAY, shipments of hazardous materials ranging from household bleach to nuclea

Barely six months ago, the European Community's program to create the world's biggest single trade b

THE PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION has problems aplenty: a backlog of 140 vessels stemming from the canal's

The strengthening of the yen against the dollar since 1985 failed to make U.S. exports more competit

Three weeks before the Berlin Wall became a sieve, a brigade of VOPOs (Volkspolizei), East German bo

About five minutes after I brazenly offered to write a defense of the 1980s, I figured I'd made a bi

THINGS ARE BACK TO NORMAL in Argentina. Six months after Carlos Menem, pledging sweeping economic re

They are among East Germany's best and brightest, this little group of articulate students from Humb

U.S. officials were stunned when, mere weeks after a major announcement at the Malta summit of new U

TO THE AVERAGE TAXPAYER, the idea that a government regulatory commission should have public meeting

IMPORT DUMPING is not one of the world's greater sins. But in the midst of complicated negotiations

Dear Manny, I got your message but I've been slow to answer because I realize that things ha