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The European Community Commission said it will pay 2 million European currency units ($2.1 million)

This largely rural city of 130,000 will ask the Virginia General Assembly next month to authorize th

Some said it was as exciting as watching paint dry. Others squandered vacation time to stand freezin

The U.S. office of the Asia North American Eastbound Rate Agreement has hired three former United St

Europe Container Terminus, the Rotterdam box-handling company, extended the deadline for trade union

UK Official to Address Dinner for Oil TradersPeter Walker, the U.K.'s secretary of state for

Owners of the Seabrook nuclear power plant last week asked the federal government for permission to

Rorer Group Inc. announced that it will keep Armour Pharmaceutical Co. ''After careful analy

With the credit markets beginning the usual holiday season slowdown, analysts are looking ahead at 1

A field of eight companies bidding on a contract to supply 1.2 million metric tons of U.S. coking co

New Interstate Commerce Commission rules spelling out what information about railroad contract rates

A new ICF Inc. survey of 17 major commercial hazardous waste management firms indicates that hazardo

Occidental Chemical Corp. announced Thursday a completion schedule for a project to bring back on-st

A delegation of officials from the Italian state-run utility Ente Nazionale Energia Elettrica, inclu

In an era when local, state and regional competition to attract new companies appears to be heighten

Talks on the U.S.-Canadian softwood lumber dispute continued despite Canada's rejection of a U.S. pr

Japan is moving toward setting an inflation-adjusted annual economic growth target of about 3.5 perc

Belgian Steelmaker Reaches Layoff AccordBRUSSELS, Belgium - Cockerill-Sambre, Belgium's larg

Eight months after the worst nuclear reactor accident in history, the Soviet Union is trying to seal

Brazilian Coffee Crop Put at 25 Million BagsRIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Early data collected by

A Federal Maritime Commission ruling could allow United States Lines (SA) to recover about $1 millio

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

The 21 air carriers belonging to the Association of European Airlines expect their passenger busines

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines said it reached a preliminary agreement to buy the Hilton International hot

Mitsubishi Motors Sales America, a subsidiary of Japan's Mitsubishi Motors Corp., announced plans to

Japan plans to propose a 20-year international fundamental science research program of about 1.0 tri

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which celebrates its 25th anniversary thi

OPEC ministers have made a majority decision to reduce crude oil output to 15.8 million barrels a da

Western Financial Meet TOKYO - Finance ministers and central bank governors from the United

Charges that U.S. semiconductor makers are dumping large-scale integration chips in Japan's market a

Containerization & Intermodal Institute. All-day seminar on the impact of the 1984 Shipping Act on c

Hapag-Lloyd, West Germany's biggest ship line, navigated better than expected through 1986 and will

Start-up Delayed At Hope Creek PlantLOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK, N.J. - Routine maintenance on a wa

The United States lags behind Japan, West Germany and Sweden in both economic performance and qualit

Indian sugar output in the first half of November was 125,000 metric tons, compared with 190,000 met

CooperVision Will Sell Its Ophthalmic BusinessPALO ALTO, Calif. - CooperVision said it agree

The founders of the European Monetary System, former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing of France an

Dutch Firm to Control Philips Trust After ShiftThe United States Philips Trust, which owned

The head of the American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa said 26 more U.S. companies are likely

The hottest board game in the Philippines this Christmas is a cross between Monopoly and Clue that l