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The Maritime Administration ordered a full hearing before a law judge on Ameri can President Lines L

The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission warned Congress against legislation retaining a list of

Hong Kong and Malaysia are stepping up efforts to woo more investment, especially from the United St

Scientists say they have reached record efficiency levels for an experimental type of solar power ce

Texaco Reports Slump In 1st Quarter ProfitsTexaco Inc. Wednesday reported first quarter earn

Gasoline and distillate oil inventories declined moderately, according to the American Petroleum Ins

Forecasts of European coal use increasing significantly over the next few years are probably overopt

Fireproof Fabrics Offered for AircraftA British company is introducing two new fireproof fab

Organizers of China's Guangzhou fair are trying to sort out some of the problems U.S. buyers have be

W. German Warns US Against ProtectionismA high-ranking West German official delivered an urg

China's leading industrial hub is expecting much more trading activity in the coming years.

The House of Representatives approved the controversial Gephardt amendment, which orders U.S. repris

The crystal ball that the Commerce Department uses to scan the economy's future once again revealed

GENERAL NEWS The Soviet Union says the Baltic and Black seas are getting cleaner. Page 1AFo

West State Inc., which recently completed refitting and reflagging of the Cape Edmont after another

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

The largest spare pool of cash in the world, $2 trillion in Japanese savings accounts, almost equal

People with a lifetime of the highest legally permissible exposure to the industrial chemical benzen

Air safety investigators asked the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to look into a possible prob

American to Integrate AirCal Into SystemDALLAS/FORT WORTH AIRPORT - American Airlines will i

The chairman of Turkey's national oil company met with Iraq's oil minister to discuss a new trans-Tu

Democratic Gov. Richard Bryan told Congress Wednesday that Nevada "isn't biting" on a legislative pl

Taiwan's quasi-governmental trade promotion body, which used to focus almost entirely on increasing

The U.K. stock market has become more popular with foreign investors because they think the Conserva

South Korea, seeking to avoid trade friction, has decided to regulate shipments of video tape record

Construction contracting, driven by a surge of highway projects, rose 10 percent in March, reversing

Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday its net income more than doubled to $1.5 billion, or $5.73 a share, in

In classic fashion, Malcolm W. MacLeod started at the bottom of the company, Mor an Towing & Transpo

Robust revenue growth fueled strong first quarter earnings gains for most of the nation's full truck

The Norwegian Shipowners' Association believes a competitive NIS (Norwegian International Ship Regis

There may be a simple explanation for the trouble truck industry analysts have been having in foreca

They are not the gawky, almost human robots of movie fame. But that may bebecause most of th

The proposed merger of the troubled Blue Shield of Northeastern New York with Blue Shield of Western

Chase Service to Aid Importers, ExportersChase Manhattan Bank announced the introduction of

The executive board of the International Coffee Organization willmeet June 1-5 on the tourist island

A creditor of the debt-ridden International Tin Council, whose collapse 18 months ago plunged the wo

The multibillion-dollar consortium formed by subsidiaries of Volkswagen and Ford Motor Co. in Brazil

Sales of new homes slumped 3.6 percent in March while the median price of a new home climbed to a re

The West German current account surplus rose to 8.8 billion marks in March according to seasonally u

Formal Complaint Needed on ICG RateShippers challenging an Illinois Central Gulf Railroad fr