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The producers of the hit Broadway musical "Les Miserables were tres miserables recently when two per

The missile attack on a U.S. warship in the Persian Gulf that took the lives of 28 Navy officers and

Hercules Inc. has announced increases in the market prices of its full line of nitrocellulose produc

John P. Eicher will serve as interim director of the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Moto

Likely congressional approval of a catastrophic illness Medicare benefit this year has focused renew

Technological and information revolutions are reshaping coun tries in the Pacific Basin in a way com

Ocean researchers say they have found a gold mine of minerals - the trick is going to be how to get

South Korea shows no signs of easing its push into the United States despite mounting U.S. pressure

Some Asian suppliers for U.S. markets may be unfairly punished by Washington lawmakers eager to "wav

Crude oil futures flirted with the $20 mark Monday on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The

The upstart shipping registries that have proliferated recently "are here to stay" and put pressure

Fears of further inflation and nervousness over the attack on the Navy ship in the Persian Gulf comb

Allied Fibers, a division of Allied-Signal Inc., and Dartco Manufacturing Inc., Augusta, Ga., are ta

European shippers are claiming that when members of the International Air Transport Association init

The forlorn garbage barge, just a short tow from home after an eight-week,6,000-mile voyage

Gov. Mario Cuomo nominated Democratic Assemblywoman Barbara Patton of Long Island on Monday to repla

The man steps out of the truck and makes a beeline for a trash bin at a steakhouse. There, tucked be

Brazil has protested to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade the U.S. decision earlier this ye

Venezuela will experience its worst inflation in history this year. Despite desperate government att

Seeking to avoid trade frictions and other possible adverse effects abroad, South Korea has decided

Japan's Factory Output Fell in Fiscal 1986Japan's mining and manufacturing production declin

Canada has much to gain from a proposed free trade agreement with the United States, a Ports Canada

The overcapacity in the cruise industry, certain to increase in the coming years, hasn't shaken the

GENERAL NEWS Business economists say goodbye to the era of very low inflation and rising bud

The Social Democratic/Liberal Party Alliance, which published its election manifesto Monday morning,

Railroad retirement funding problems have become a key long-term issue for the railroad industry.

An international trading deal that saw U.S.-made warplanes sold to Spain is resulting in the assembl

The U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, an agency that seeks to promote U.S. exports, has been hard

In a story published May 6 on Food & Drug Administration concern about urethane contamination of alc

After six sorrowful springs marked by foreclosures, broken families, plummeting prices and rising de

Mexicans to Upgrade 41 Maritime TerminalsMexico will spend $124 million in the next two year

New York state's proposed legislation to ban health insurers from testing applicants for AIDS will b

May 18, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

British-made Machine Good for Tight CornersThe Roundpactor is a British-made machine that fa

U.S. military families based in Europe might never have left the United States as far as their shopp

The newly refitted Queen Elizabeth 2 returned to Britain almost three hours late Sunday carrying pa

Oman, a non-OPEC oil producer, will continue its cooperation with the group's efforts to stabilize t

Concern is growing in the U.S. leather and hide industry over rocketing prices and over-reliance on

Methane Explodes In Soviet Coal MineMethane exploded in a coal mine in the eastern Ukraine,

Only three days after Genoa stevedores resolved a damaging six-month dispute over pay and work rules