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United Parcel Service Inc.'s new labor contract with the Teamsters union hikes workers' wages by mor

Niki Lauda, a triple world champion in formula one auto racing, has won a battle against the competi

Air Traffic Controllers Plan Strike in SpainBARCELONA, Spain - Air traffic controllers in Sp

BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD MARKETING EXECUTIVES have been making the rounds of news offices recent

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Eighteen months after the Challenger explosion, a troubled NASA is at acrossroads. S

Presidential hopeful Paul Simon told a small but enthusiastic crowd at the Illinois State Fair just

The United States should threaten to close its markets to foreign imports in an effort to force othe

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The New York State Consumer Protection Board said it will conduct public hearings to determine wheth

No one predicted it would turn out this way. After two months of calm, amicable labor negotiations,

McDonald's Corp. denied rumors in the stock market that it planned to switchfrom plastic to

The head of mainland China's operation to build commercial ships forforeign customers puts it simply

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Greek shipowners based in Piraeus, this country's largest port, and London have renewed their call f

In 1837, Steven H. Long, an engineer, drove a stake in the ground of an uninhabited clearing in the

Since the start of its Kuwaiti tanker convoy operations in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy has made

Truck drivers in recent years have been steering their big rigs clear of the Lincoln and Holland tun

Royal Nedlloyd NV, the Dutch transport and energy group, slipped into a loss of 56 million guilders

Art Flanagan lugged cargo as a longshoreman and kept trains running on time as a railroad yardmaster

The U.S.-Australia trade is undergoing a further shakeout as two ocean carriers filed with the Feder

What has happened to the men who made steel? Between 1982 and 1985, an estimated 85,000 work

Federal regulators have put millions of women at increased risk of getting toxic shock syndrome by f

Investors in the life insurance industry may be watching the end of an era. Although the lif

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

A Customs Service test of paperless entry filing in Southern California has been under way for less

Last December, Robert Perry, a chemist at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, announced that

Japan Air Lines said it will hire 120 foreign flight attendants to work on flights to Europe and Sin

The Illinois economy runs on corn, and that message was driven home over and over again at the Illin

Authorities eager to keep Miami's 3-year-old commuter system spick-and-span arrested a mother who al

A new man has been appointed to initiate the "sweeping reform" of Australian transport. He i

Court Upholds Ruling On California UtilityThe California Supreme Court let stand a ruling re

Two state programs that work together to regulate the transport of hazardous wastes and nab rigs wit

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AIR CARGO Singapore Airlines has ordered its first all-freighter version of the Boeing 747.

Chemical Leaman Corp. has commenced a tender offer to purchase up to 300,000 shares of its outstandi

A controversial technology that has the recording industry in turmoil soon will enable computers to

The shipping industry faces at least two more years of uncertainty after yet another "disastrous" ye

Coast Guard Publishes Licensing ProposalThe Coast Guard published its licensing proposal for

A small Connecticut company's surprise showing in the race for an AIDS vaccine is good news for medi