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American beef and rice may not be flowing into Japan in any significant amounts, but the same can't

The U.S. Surgeon General Monday urged improved financing of health care for chronically ill children

Roadway Motor Plazas Inc. last week sold 23 gasoline stations acquired during its recent purchase of

A number of employees of GPU Nuclear Corp. and independent contractors at the Three Mile Island nucl

European Community farm ministers began a new round of talks Monday on the 1987-88 farm price packag

SEATTLE DISTRICT - CENTRALIZATION OF CARGO EXAMINATION FACILITIES: The Seattle District has designat

Stock prices rose Monday, nearing record levels, as the dollar continued to gain against major curre

SHE WAS LOOKING FOR MISSING PIECES, she said, and wanted to ask about parts that didn't fit.

Perhaps only the National Rifle Association has a shorter fuse than the nation's insurance industry.

Beijing will put out its welcome mat in a grand way next year, which officials have designated Beiji

Fluor Corp. and Shell Oil Co., locked in negotiations since April over a division of the assets of A

A new auto insurance policy providing a 50 percent refund for insureds who don't drive and drink was

Recent contracts negotiated with Japanese consumers have confirmed the bleak short-term prospects fo

The dollar began this week on an uptrend, and analysts say it is likely to continue moving higher fo

Shares of Societe Generale, France's third-largest commercial bank group,went on sale Monday

Harry Corless, 58, chairman, president and chief executive officer of ICI Americas sums up the strat

BAA PLC, formerly the British Airports Authority, announced pretax profits for the year to the end o

The outlook appears promising for clearing up some minor electronic data transmission problems in th

Ships crewed by members of the National Maritime Union were expected to be operating today, even tho

Mexican Line said it is not the national-flag carrier of Mexico, as earlier reported, even though th

Thousands of illegal aliens have quit their jobs in garment factories because of fear and confusion

At the Pan American Economic Leadership Conference in Indianapolis, U.S. Sen. Richard G. Lugar, R-In

June 15, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

It's been three long years working shorthanded at the National Transportation Safety Board, but at l

With fingers crossed and prayers that third tries are charmed, Brazil today launches an effort to co

Millstone 3 Expected At Full Power TodayWATERFORD, CONN. - Northeast Utilities' Millstone 3

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Evergreen Line, the Taiwan containership company, has denied that it plans to build 11 super-contain

A.H. Robins Co. is expecting Cigna Corp. to pick up the entire $9.2 million awarded by the Kansas Su

General Motors Corp. and United Auto Workers union officials have signed an agreement aimed at impro

Spain's plan to build an underground laboratory near Portugal's border to test for a nuclear-waste s

Top Indian businessmen are resisting U.S. demands for better protection of intellectual property inc

U.S. export restrictions are a compromise between national security and national commercial requirem

On the U.S. Trade Deficit: We've got to focus on supporting trade reforms now in place and i

In an office in the New Kingston business district, quiet but for the hum of the air-conditioning an

Frank V. Cahouet is resigning as president of the Federal National Mortgage Association and expects

U.S. and European aircraft makers are intensifying their verbal dogfight as Japan nears a decision o

The process of putting 11 Kuwaiti tankers under the U.S. flag is in its ''final stages" and the tank

Critics of the Federal Aviation Administration view last week's overwhelming vote in favor of a new

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