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GENERAL NEWS Construction of new homes and apartments edged down 0.1 percent in January, the

Unocal Corp.'s successful fight in 1985 to stop a hostile takeover attempt by financier T. Boone Pic

All 23 syndicates at the Miami insurance exchange are being urged to consider voluntary rehabilitati

Proposition 65 Backers Fear Shorter Toxic ListAssemblyman Tom Hayden and other backers of Pr

Leipzig Spring Show Focuses on FoodThe Leipzig Spring Fair will be held March 15-21 in Leipz

The chief author of a 1986 report calling for a "historic transformation" of Japan's economy chastis

OMI Corp. reported fourth quarter net income of $2.5 million or 8 cents a share on revenue of $47.3

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

Sales of non-oil goods to foreign customers soared about 34 percent last year, the government said.<

The Army asked for nominations from around the country for shippers and users to sit on an 11-member

Arco Chemical Europe announced that its Netherlands operating unit will build an estimated $20 milli

Truck tonnage totals in last week's table for the Southern and Western regions and for All Areas wer

Grenada, the world's second-largest producer of nutmegs, recorded a 13.5 percent increase in exports

Witco Corp. is planning a $2.6 million modernization project for its Concarb division carbon black p

Chinese Cotton Growers Receive IncentivesCotton growers in China's coastal Jiangsu province

IDB ECUADOR - $57.2 million from the Inter-American Development Bank for low- income housing

Czech Dissident VIENNA, Austria - A U.S. congressional delegation in Czechoslovakia on a hum

INSURANCE ContinentalNames BondHead of UnitNEW YORK - Continental Corp. name

Obstacles To BusinessGrowth CitedConsumers' heavy spending at the expense of savings

By a one-vote margin, the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association voted to go ahead with

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

Preston Corp. reported a fourth quarter profit of $604,000, or 10 cents a share, compared with a yea

Fried Chicken Firm Leaving South AfricaLOUISVILLE, Ky. - Kentucky Fried Chicken Corp. plans

Burma's quarter-century of isolation and one-man rule have shattered the economy of a bountiful land

William McGeoch & Co. of Britain has developed an instrument that displays the position of mobile eq

Major shipping lines are diverting vessels from Rotterdam to avoid being strikebound at Europe Conta

West Germany's shipowners, as generally expected, promptly farmed out their vessels under cost-savin

Limited sorghum supplies for this year and soaring prices have left Japanese import ers in need of a

Malaysian rubber output totaled 1.54 million metric tons in 1986, up 4.7 percent from the previous y

A follow-up examination of a Danish report by the Norwegian classification society Det norske Verita

Oakland International Airport has won its first international customer since it was forced to stop s

Financial authorities of the five major industrial democracies are still trying to arrange another

The following index charts weekly changes in motor carrier tonnage originatingfrom 49 produc

A Blue Shield of California pilot project that takes a flexible approach to outpatient care is provi

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Brazil will demand an increase in International Cocoa Organization's buffer stock to 250,000 metric

Profit margins rose for nearly 70 percent of the nation's larger trucking companies in a year-to-yea

The initial public offering price for Conrail stock is expected to be between $22 and $26 a share, a

The Senate Commerce Committee may attempt to expand legislation permitting random testing of railroa

GENERAL NEWS Ford Motor Co. earned $3.3 billion in 1986, a 31 percent improvement over the p