Commentary

WHAT A DIFFERENCE two weeks make! When the leaders of the seven largest market economies met in Veni

Postwar federal support for technological research often has left one critical research area an orph

''If you really want to do something and work hard enough, you can do it. Here in America, you have

Wall Street has a head start on its traditional summer rally. The stock market has posted a new hig

ON ATLANTA'S PEACHTREE STREET, yet another new office tower has sprouted amid the dogwoods. With a h

The core functions of government are frequently cited in the extensive list of programs that compri

THE TWO AILING GIANTS of the bus business, Greyhound Lines Inc. and Trailways Corp., are proposing t

Dumping, the Senate Committee on Finance has informed us, is one of the "most pernicious practices

Comments on Rand Were OffensiveIt is not unusual to discuss a person like Mr. Greenspan in t

CONGRESS, AN AMAZINGLY accurate weather vane, has tested the winds and seen that they are blowing co

Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, has said that "a battle of monumental proportion is brewing over Alaska'

As rains lashed southern Britain last week and temperatures struggled to reach 60 degrees it could o

If you are reading this among a batch of photo-copied news clips put together by your public relatio

THE AIRLINE BATTLE for market share through fare cuts seems to be over, at least for the time being.

THE BIG TRADE BILL the Senate is due to take up this week contains a few sleepers. One provi

It has been over two years since the dollar began its long decline from peak levels, yet the long-aw

ONCE AGAIN, BRAZIL'S President Jose Sarney has a plan. Prices have been frozen. Automatic wage index

A private organization recruits and equips a guerrilla force in the United States for an expedition

Debate on the Senate floor next week will offer a key to the prospects of a major trade law during t

On Wednesday, the Reagan administration transmitted to the Congress proposed legislation that will m

RAIDERS, JUNK BONDS AND GREENMAIL have America agog. In direct response to widespread public alarm o

OZONE IS IN. Amid fears that widely used chemicals are rapidly destroying the ozone layer that shiel

The way a colleague tells it, severe winter weather had left his subdivision in the Virginia suburbs

PERHAPS IT WAS A BAD DAY at the office, or maybe just a slip of the tongue. Whatever the case, Richa

The Venice summit meeting turned out, as was widely predicted, to be a non- event, at least in the e

The 1987 Omnibus Trade Bill has earned the moniker of the Japanese Trade Bill. But the version passe

THE FUEL CRISIS of the 1970s has been blamed for a loss of tempers and jobs. Now, Harvard University

A COMMITTEE OF THE House of Representatives has cleared a bill that would sharply curtail use of the

It isn't nice to call it jawboning, so all the parties participating in last week's Venice summit re

The White House laid down a heavy smoke screen in advance of the economic summit meeting in Venice d

Rep. Steven Solarz, D-N.Y., is casting his net ever farther into troubled waters. It is another depa

THIS WAS THE YEAR for Democrats to show that they have the stuff to govern. But if their attempts to

IN 1981, THE FEDERAL Aviation Administration received an opportunity almost any employer would envy.

Cost Not a Factor In Bill's RejectionUnder the headline, "VA Benefits Opposed for Wartime Sa

The U.S. government is finally standing tall in the world, insisting that our trading partners open

Margaret Thatcher's historic hat-trick election victory is likely to have a deep impact on British p

THE AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION'S leadership is more optimistic about its prospects to purchase Alle

Who could have predicted that the seven leaders at this just-completed summit would have spent nearl

"Washington is a city full of yellow dog Democrats," the statuesque blonde said, and then emphasized

IT'S ALWAYS BEEN the case in this country that when things aren't going well, we blame somebody else