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United States Life Insurance Co. said it signed a letter of intent to sell its home office here to R

Most Americans believe that juries award too much money in medical malpractice lawsuits and that suc

The majority of Lloyd's of London underwriting agencies, who manage the affairs of members of the in

Robert Hunter and Bill Gunter disagree on the effect of tort law changes in Florida on insurance com

U.S. hardwood importers face higher prices as they compete with European and Japanese buyers for ply

The average hospital bill rose 7.5 percent in 1985 despite a decline in theaverage length of

Asbestos Injury Cases Settled by RaytechTRUMBULL, Conn. - Raytech Corp. said its Raymark Ind

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

Texas had the highest death rate among the largest industrial states for workers in nearly every occ

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

The U.S. dollar moved broadly higher against major currencies Tuesday on news reports and technical

Tuesday, December 9,1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Net purchases of foreign bonds by Japanese investors increased in November to $9.7 billion on a cont

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

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 has the nation's coal producers crying the blues, the Virginia Center for

Saudi Basic Industries Corp. will supply 200,000 metric tons of urea fertilizer to a number of compa

Federal officials are welcoming the public to a dump for radioactive material on the remote desert s

Western Europe's pharmaceutical packagers will depend more on flexible strip and blister packs over

Faced with the prospects of excessive nuclear power generation capacity, France's state utility, Ele

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. announced that it has received commitments for a $4 billion credit fa

Applied Energy Services Inc. signed an innovative contract with CSX Corp. covering a 15-year supply

Hoescht Raises Naphthoic Acid Prices American Hoescht Corp. announced a price increase for b

Glaxo Inc. announced it signed a contract with Roche Laboratories, the pharmaceuticals division of H

Standard Sells Assets, Closes Some OperationsThe Standard Oil Co. said it sold and closed so

A new argon recovery plant is being built by Canadian Oxygen Ltd. in Courtright, Ontario, Airco Indu

Richard E. Lyng, agriculture secretary, will be in Brussels, Belgium, this week as a member of the U

An Agriculture Department livestock economist says the nation's cattle inventory continues to declin

The U.S. plans to push for an intergovernmental producer-consumer forum to exchange data on the copp

The port of Portland has seized an American Automar Inc. ship caught in a squabble involving credito

Rice production forecasts for Thailand for 1986-87 (January-December) have been reduced to 18 millio

Mobile's Grain Elevator Setting Daily RecordsMOBILE, Ala. - The public grain elevator at Mob

Less than two weeks after announcing it was being shelved, Malaysia says an ambitious natural gas pi

Norway, the only Western industrialized nation to openly collaborate with OPEC, probably will contin

China is hoping its first onshore oil exhibition and conference opening today in Canton will help at

For someone trying to sell computer programs to farmers, it was an odd admission. Unlike mos

Bangladesh Gets Grant To Buy US WheatDHAKA, Bangladesh - Bangladesh will receive a Japanese

Iran was forced to increase its imports of refined petroleum products to some 300,000 barrels a day

The Island Hope, one of two containerships that Island Shipping Line operates between between Yokoha

December 8, 1986 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallo

Westinghouse Nuclear International Inc. and BBC Brown, Boveri and Co. Ltd. were awarded a joint cont