Commentary

THE IDEA OF GIVING the president authority to veto individual line items in spending bills has been

EVEN AS WE WERE WARNING against its plans for data base snooping, the Reagan administration backed d

An interesting and fairly rare market event occurred as Inco and Owens- Illinois were replaced in th

CONGRESS WILL TAKE another look this year at how much freedom railroads should have to raise or low

Comedian Bill Cosby in his latest book on Fatherhood" says a telltale sign that children are becomin

The Council of the Americas has released another report on how the men in the business trenches of d

THE INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S Association without Teddy Gleason in charge? For most of the shipp

IT'S 19 MONTHS until next year's presidential election, if anyone in Washington needed reminding, an

Nobody seems ready to divulge the full facts about a new east-west situation full of paradox and per

What's in a name? Specifically, what's in a byline? In eight years at the Journal of Commerc

Let there be no misunderstanding of the true meaning of free enterprise. It does not mean being sin

Is the competitiveness fever perverting academic values by putting money- making industrial goals ah

THE FAIRCHILD-FUJITSU affair raises questions about the direction of U.S. trade policy. Foremost is:

The world's astronomers have a new fixation, an event that happened a long time ago out in space but

EVER WONDER WHY THINGS seem so mixed up? By more than six to one, Americans say their own personal

If Massachusetts nuclear power groupies didn't get their daily fill of the Seabrook nuclear power pl

Evidence of the heavy toll the yen's sharp appreciation since the autumn of 1985 is taking on Japan'

WHO WILL POLICE THE POLICEMEN? One of Vice Admiral John M. Poindexter's final acts as national secur

CAN A FOOLPROOF DRUG and alcohol test be devised? That, it seems to us, is the only question involve

Propagating the Myth Of Tort ExplosionI was saddened to read that The Journal of Commerce is

Your editorial, "Give Amtrak Away," (JofC, March 4) correctly identifies our association as one of t

Phil Caldwell is the kind of person who disappears in a crowd. His gray suits match his gray hair an

Children play with video games while their parents doze on deck. Teen-agers watch a film in the cin

A FAMILIAR QUESTION - Why doesn't the United States have a maritime policy? - was heard during the H

IF A BOONDOGGLE is "any project on which government funds are wasted" (Safire's Political Dictionary

SLOWLY, ALMOST IMPERCEPTIVELY, the Office of the United States Trade Representative has begun to fle

Bill Bradley, the senior U.S. senator from New Jersey, came by to visit us in our offices on Wall S

COLLEGE STUDENTS, FARMERS, veterans, small businessmen and other borrowersfrom the federal g

Over the last six years, there has been no affirmative U.S. trade policy. Rather than a government p

IS THERE A CHANCE there will be no budget agreement this year? Despite suggestions by many that the

SLICING UP THE PORK: That's how one congressional staffer referred to the so- called demonstration p

Today, we face stiff competition from abroad in almost all of our industrial sectors. Although limit

NOT LONG AGO the U.S. Customs Service and customhouse brokers were fighting tooth and nail. Customs

Although each one of us wants to be treated as an individual and perceives much of life in "ego" or

If Hong Kong were a country, its population of six million would leave it ranking as a middle-sized

WITH THE ECONOMY BUMPING ALONG a slow-growth course that sometimes alarms andrarely inspires

In the movie, The Gods Must Be Crazy, a soda bottle, dropped from the skies by an airline pilot, lan

THE NEWS - BARE-BONE EVENTS UNADORNED with editorial opinion - sometimes proves a more telling comme

I am concerned over the negative impact that foreign imports are having on our nation's economy. In

The U.S. economy is at a crossroads. Foreign competition matters as never before. Changes in our co