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AS the recent trade dispute with China over copyright protection for intellectual capital shows, competitiveness, more than ever, depends upon ideas. This is not just true for high-tech businesses like […]

COMPANIES Dawn at Last for a Troubled Economy Recessions are like colds. They may linger a while, sufferers may curse them, but sooner or later they do get better. According […]

James F. Moore, is president of GeoPartners Research Inc., a business consulting firm in Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Moore, while a doctoral student at Harvard, had been greatly influenced by the […]

It sounded like a promise from the campaign stump. President-elect Bill Clinton told a news conference last week that 'I will ask the Congress to adopt an investment tax credit […]

It was a heroic fight. Against the forces of profiteers in the $1 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market, Germany and France battled to preserve the value of the French franc. They […]

INTERNATIONAL Failing Pravda Gets a Partner When Pravda was founded in Moscow by Vladimir Lenin in 1912 as the official organ of the Soviet Communist Party, its purpose was to […]

Robert Sanford Boas, head of an international securities concern, died on Monday at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, L.I. Mr. Boas was 69 years old and lived in Great […]

A year ago, when the economy tipped into recession, most economists were quick to say the downturn would be atypically short and shallow. They forecast a couple of quarters of […]

INTERNATIONAL The Coup's Aftermath: Will Gorbachev Be the Loser? The coup last week in the Soviet Union failed before most people outside of Russia could learn how to pronounce the […]

COMPANIES A Giant Killer Stumbles and Takes a Big Fall Joseph R. Canion, president of the Compaq Computer Corporation, has to be more careful when he speaks. Last week, before […]

By the year 2000, according to Federal Aviation Administration rules, the nation's noisiest commercial jets must be phased out of the fleet. The trouble is, these aircraft -- built in […]

Time was, a gusher erupted over the field when oil was struck. Not so anymore. Low pressure in older fields, especially in the United States, has made the gusher a […]

What will be the economic and political effect of the gulf war on other countries? Benjamin Weiner, president of Probe International, a political risk-analysis firm in Stamford, Conn., is telling […]

The sophisiticated war equipment fashioned by military contractors may not be enough to win a war in the Persian Gulf, according to Steven L. Canby, a retired lieutenant colonel in […]

At the same time as war engulfs the Middle East, the Soviet Union continues to unravel both politically and economically. After five years, the democratic reforms and economic liberalization initiated […]

Amid a great deal of publicity -- and several false calls -- the recession has finally arrived. But by all accounts it is not a typical recession, nor was it […]

For more than a decade, companies have been asked to take on more responsibility for the nation's social programs. But how? According to Craig Smith, editor and publisher of the […]

A PIPE FITTER and a machinist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennesse have recently patented and produced a prototype of a variable-pitch propeller that can produce forward, reverse […]

Bill Totten, an American, has lived in Japan since 1969. In 1972, he started a company in Tokyo called Ashisuto to sell American software to Japanese companies. Ashisuto now has […]

Israel has undertaken an investment initiative designed to lure high-tech American and European companies to invest in its economy. The program was developed by Moshe Nissim, Deputy Prime Minister and […]

LEAD: Most economists, looking at the future, are gloomy right now. Not so Mark A. Miles, executive vice president and senior economist at H. C. Wainwright Economics, a consulting firm […]

LEAD: Since shortly before Saddam Hussein invaded Iraq, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen about 600 points - from a high of nearly 3000, to the 2400 range. By […]

LEAD: Last April, Michael R. Milken agreed to plead guilty to six felony counts, including conspiracy, securities law violations and tax fraud. These charges stemmed from his activities as head […]

LEAD: When Clayton & Dubilier Inc. completes its acquisition of the International Business Machines Corporation's typewriter and printer division later this month, B. Charles Ames, a partner in the leveraged-buyout […]

LEAD: The economic news was gloomy even before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait: half a year of lackluster growth, rising inflation and a softening employment picture. Now, as oil prices rise […]

LEAD: The nation, it seems fair to say, has never been in quite the same kind of economic bind it is in now. The nation, it seems fair to say, […]

LEAD: Vladimir Kvint, Professor of Political Economy of the U.S.S.R. and a former professor at the Communist Higher Party School in Moscow, is a member of the 'Siberian school' of […]

LEAD: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., is testing a new 'off-road vehicle' - designed for Mars. 'Robby,' as it's called, has an articulated body, a variety of sensors […]

LEAD: For libraries around the world, the enemy is time. Since the 1850's, when all-rag paper became prohibitively expensive, printing has been done on wood-pulp paper. But alum, a component […]

LEAD: THE good news, say Robert J. Barro of Harvard University and Xavier Sala i Martin of Yale University, is that high interest rates are not bad for the economy. […]

LEAD: As the cold war fades into history, policy makers are beginning work on trimming the military budget. But how easily can companies that serve the military convert their operations […]

LEAD: Kaj Hober, a partner in the Stockholm office of White & Case, an international law firm, has taken part in negotiations for 45 joint ventures between Soviet and Western […]

LEAD: EARLIER this month, at a conference in Tokyo, the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Manuel H. Johnson, said he was 'not uncomfortable with the current level of […]

LEAD: THE latest round of trade negotiations between the United States and Japan is provoking rancor but few results. The Japanese have charged that America does not invest enough in […]

LEAD: Researchers at the College of Aeronautics, Queens, N.Y., and at Ixion Inc., a Seattle-based computer and video programming company, have devised an interactive video system that can teach oxygen […]

LEAD: A new system for de-icing the the wings of airplanes and the rotors of helicopters has been invented by Leonard Haslim, a program manager at NASA's Ames Research Center […]

LEAD: Sales of new homes rose by 9.6 percent in November, the biggest jump in four months, according to the Commerce Department last week. The Northeast and Middle West posted […]

LEAD: In an effort to concentrate its resources on the North American automotive market, the Chrysler Corporation announced last week that it would sell Chrysler Technologies, which owns Gulfstream Aerospace [...]

LEAD: Since its revival under Lee A. Iacocca, the Chrysler Corporation has been closely identified with incentive programs. Despite the problems others cite with this approach, Chrysler has continued to [...]

LEAD: Unemployment has fallen to 5.6 percent, the lowest rate in 8 1/2 years. Will increased tightness in the labor market push up inflation? The Phillips curve - an economic [...]

LEAD: LAST weekend, 32 economists from around the country and from Europe gathered at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute at Bard College to discuss the work of the late British […]

LEAD: While Soviet-American trade has never been large in volume - it will total only about $2 billion in 1987 - it has been controversial and highly political. In the […]

LEAD: So far this season, Christmas sales figures are mixed. The weekend after Thanksgiving, which kicks off the buying season, saw retail sales soar. But the following week the momentum […]

LEAD: Mexico's new President, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, was sworn into office on Thursday. After his inauguration, Mr. Salinas said the payments Mexico makes on its $104 billion foreign debt […]

LEAD: Last week, the baseball commissioner, Peter V. Ueberroth, announced that CBS had won the rights to nationally televise 12 baseball games a year plus the World Series, All-Star Games […]

LEAD: Five years ago, a Federal District Court ordered the breakup of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the nation's telephone monopoly. While some facets of the business have seen […]

LEAD: Health care amounts to 11.1 percent of gross national product in the United States, a bigger share than in any other advanced country. In 1987, Americans spent $500 billion […]

LEAD: The fall in the value of the dollar against the yen last week raised expectations that the Federal Reserve Board would push interest rates higher to prevent the dollar […]

LEAD: Last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation initiated an investigation into the virus program reportedly written by Robert T. Morris Jr., a graduate student at Cornell University, that clogged […]