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London underwriters have raised hull insurance rates on vessels in the Gulf of Oman, although there

The Federal Aviation Administration, as it tries to recover from the 1981 air traffic controllers' s

Ruthe Kline, a student of music, is one of the new breed of air traffic controllers staffing airport

Operations returned to normal at Taiwan ports after customs brokers and government officials reached

Canadian railway union officials began discussions in Ottawa Wednesday of a federal conciliator's re

World sugar imports in 1987 are expected to decline further by some 5 percent to 24.8 million tons,

Many of the 210 residents of this Eskimo village hugging the northern coast of Alaska see developmen

Bank of America is negotiating to sell its 38,000-customer Dutch Visa credit card operation to a lar

1118.5 (Aug. 12) Previous day - 1074.0 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

A fifth floating mine has been found in a busy anchorage just south of the Persian Gulf where one bl

Mass. Insurers Face Rate Hike HearingsMassachusetts auto insurers appear to be in for anothe

Although Indonesia is steadily producing more coal, it will still rely heavily on imports over the c

Police raided an office of the striking black miners' union Wednesday and arrested 78 members on cha

The dollar was down slightly in thin trading Wednesday, as large bank sell orders undercut the curre

An abnormally large jump in oil imports - possibly triggered by concern over events in the Persian G

The Minerals Management Service Division of the Department of the Interior will offer 5,075 tracts c

Taiwanese Encouraged To Invest in the USTAIPEI, Taiwan - Chinese-American women leaders urge

The Brazilian Sugar and Alcohol Institute is expected to sign contracts this week to sell 480,000 me

A retro-illumination camera from Britain is designed to record cataracts and other abnormalities in

The New Bedford, Mass.-based tug Jaguar displays manila bow bumpers little used today as it lays bes

The Netherlands has been sounding out the member nations of the Western European Union, or WEU, on a

Here is an idealized timetable for the discovery and commercial production of oil from the Arctic Na

Weak monsoon rains in Asia and plagues of grasshoppers and locusts in Africa were reported to be thr

Maersk Line has signed a major contract to use Transax/RATES' Shiprate service to automate its tarif

F.W. Woolworth Co. reported its second-quarter earnings rose 19 percent as they were helped in part

AVIATION The original partners in a new European computer reservation system announced a com

Tax reforms enacted by Mexico this year are already boosting revenue substantially, finance official

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Nalco Chemical Unit Acquires Radiant ColorNAPERVILLE, Ill. - Nalco Chemical Co. announced th

Pipeline Company Posts Rise in NetCALGARY, Alberta - Interprovincial Pipe Line Ltd. announce

IF THERE'S ONE THING THAT BOTHERS SOME ALASKA hands it's the way anti- developmen t environmentalist

The Japanese Export-Import Bank approved a $373.3 million loan to finance refinery modernization and

A major Japanese importer has taken North American Bear Co. under its arm and will distribute its pl

Drug smugglers beware. The Coast Guard has added four high-speed, high-tech boats to its fig

Italy has no immediate plans to send minesweepers to the gulf and still believes the United Nations

The mysterious appearance of mines in waters outside the Persian Gulf has dramatically raised the st

The U.S. Navy is sending an unspecified number of small patrol boats to bolster its escort of Kuwait

The Greeks, who have seen themselves grow steadily poorer for two years in a row, have received a wa

Swiss Transport and Energy Minister Leon Schlumpf, who strongly defended Swiss interests in road tra

The number of farms in the United States dropped 2 percent last year, while the size of the average