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Business executives are the most heavily represented group on federal advisory commissions named by

Direct foreign investment in Japan has increased in recent years but is smaller and growing far more

At least 200,000 workers will commute into the nine-county San Francisco Bay area by 2005 to meet th

Russ Banham has joined The Journal of Commerce, a Knight-Ridder newspaper, as insurance editor, repl

Unocal Corp. says it won't install fluidized bed combustion technology at its Parachute Creek Oil Sh

It is so basic in concept that every schoolkid understands it instinctively, but it is often ignored

Heavy-Duty Drain Rids Equipment of FluidsA heavy-duty drain from Britain for use on compress

CompuChem Corp. announced that its subsidiary, CompuChem Laboratories Inc., was awarded $6.3 million

Canada's second largest airline has decided to give Air Canada more competition in cargo sales by in

Chief public relations officers of the nation's major railroad systems convene this morning at the G

CSX Transportation's Distribution Services business unit opened a new Bulk Intermodal Distribution S

MANY TRUCKING ANALYSTS BELIEVE THE CURRENT INDUSTRY PRICE WAR will not abate until some of the exces

A settlement offer by Lloyd's of London and leading insurance brokers to help cover losses of the fo

Hapag-Lloyd (America) Inc. named Wolf Hagen senior vice president, sales, a new title. He will cont

James Clayton Stewart, a retired merchant seaman from Mobile, Ala., had been feeling ill, with pains

The Supreme Court authorized the use of warrantless searches of businesses reg ulated by state and l

India: Update 1987, Investment Opportunities for U.S. Companies. Seminar sponsored by the Trade Deve

Cockerill, the Belgian steel company interested in buying about a half-million tons of spot coking c

U.S. coal production of 498 million metric tons of oil equivalent (mtoe) last year represented 21.2

Small U.S. companies can export profitably if they are willing to weather some initial frustration,

The U.S. dollar rose in thin trading Friday after getting a big lift from a major Mideast order to b

Despite the specter of regional overcapacity, the Malaysian Inter national Shipping Corp. is looking

Massachusetts fire officials say it will be at least today before a partial containerload of six ton

A day-long House hearing into aspects of the Reagan administration's plans to bring Kuwaiti-owned ta

Lumber Production Off But Shipments IncreasePORTLAND, Ore. - Lumber production and orders fe

When Security Pacific Corp. officials late last year completed a six-months- plu s review of Texas a

California's agricultural outlook for 1987 looks promising for much of the industry, although not a

GENERAL NEWS Congress this week should pass next fiscal year's budget plan even though the p

In the last few weeks, the nation's biggest banks have added more than $12 billion in reserves to co

The Brazilian government promises shortly to disclose a new, more liberal industrial policy free of

Friday, just four trading days before the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' talks start

Buzz Billik shops in fish markets around the world. Smoked fish, says the vice president of

Rohm & Haas Co. will invest more than $150 million in its 400-million-pound- a-y ear Bristol Townshi

Some 6.9 million pounds of fresh kiwi arrived at Wilmington early this month on two vessels from New

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

Superconductivity at 90 degrees Fahrenheit (305 degrees Kelvin) has been achieved by scientists at E

The Australian airline Qantas is for the first time among the top 10 in international air cargo.

Production of Frasch and recovered sulfur for the first four months of 1987 was at an annual rate of

Abdul Huq jumped aboard the double-deck ferry just as it was sailing for southern Bangladesh, becomi