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The French state utility, Gaz de France, or GdF, is fighting for a larger portion of the domestic en

Guy F. Tozzoli received eight different job offers from the private sector after he announced his pl

S. Korea Plans Fund To Help Third WorldSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea plans to create a fu

Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing (3M) announced the acquisition of Unitek Corp. of Monrovia, Calif.,

The developing countries' debt problems, if left uncorrected much longer, threaten lasting damage to

The board of directors of Consumers Power Co. announced that it will recommend forming a holding co

Venezuela, following in the footsteps of its South American neighbor Colombia, is getting set to cro

Memtek Corp., Billerica, Mass., and E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, agreed to jointly dev

Imperial Chemical Industries PLC reported fourth quarter net income of $169 million, or $1.04 an Ame

U.S. exports of fertilizer to China, one of the world's greatest consumers, are likely to drop again

Britain has its Egon Ronay, France has its Michelein and we have our Mobil Travel Guide. Eve

Boeing 767 Testing Being Held in BoliviaLA PAZ, Bolivia - The first high-altitude airport te

Thomas Brooke, president of irregular route carrier Frederick Transport of Dundas (just outside the

Faced with a lack of progress in talks to end the strikes by conventional cargo dockers, Rotterdam's

Norske Cruise A/S has decided to sue both Kloster Cruise A/S and Finland's Wartsila shipyard for up

Canadian Shipments Increase in ValueShipments by Canadian plastics processors (custom, propr

Royal Insurance PLC, one of Britain's biggest insurance companies, reported a record pretax profit f

The U.S. dollar plunged sharply in early trading Thursday on news that durable goods orders fell mor

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

European oil prices rallied by 40 cents a barrel Thursday after falling sharply for three consecutiv

South Korea has decided to appreciate the won against the U.S. dollar by 6 percent by the end of thi

Top British industrialists may send a mission to Washington to lobby against protectionist pressures

Two European airlines, Sabena, the Belgian state carrier, and Scandinavian Airlines System are conti

A government official defended Thailand's proposal to restore the infamous ''death railway," and sai

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Stearns Joins ShearsonDivisionAmerican Express Co.'s Shearson Lehman Bros. unit said

GENERAL NEWS James R. Steckel was named vice president, production of The Journal of Commerc

Gotaas-Larsen Shipping Corp. earned a net profit of $30.6 million in 1986, a sharp increase from the

About 11,000 workers at Plymouth's naval docks staged a one-day strike Wednesday to protest a plan b

Hale Container Line of Baltimore will inaugurate its third container feeder barge service next Thurs

Guy F. Tozzoli received eight different job offers from the private sector after he announced his pl

U.S. computer chip makers are on shaky ground as Japanese manufacturers continue to garner more mark

The Georgia House is expected to reconsider insurance legislation that would give the insurance comm

China Allowed to Open Los Angeles ConsulateA State Department official said China is being a

Two more major tin producers, China and Brazil, will reduce exports this year in hopes of boosting p

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Iraq's deputy prime minister Taha Yassin Ramadan and oil minister Qassim al- Oraibi arrived here for

A powerful partnership, soon to include the First City financial group of Vancouver, has bid nearly

Since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster early last year, a question reverberating in the U.S. coal expo

Westmoreland Coal Co. earnings should improve in the fourth quarter this year, as a result of a stre