Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AIRLINES IN THE UNITED STATES are inviting re-regulation. In their determination to meet cut-rate co

Message on Fuels Hits Nail on HeadYour recent editorial, "Keep Fuel Options Open," Feb. 18,

IS INFLATION ON THE WAY BACK? It is, if you give credence to the leading inflation index compiled by

Canada's financial services industry is about to undergo a sea change that will put it in the forefr

The rapidly deteriorating position of the United States in international trade is the most important

THE HEAD OF THE MARITIME ADMINISTRATION, John Gaughan, told of the agency's policies and objectives

Since the November 1986 election, all the public and private signals comingfrom Washington h

We should ponder William Cotter's concerns about administration plans to abolish automobile fuel eff

One of Britain's leading banks suffered some horrible publicity a few years ago when an exasperated