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The House Friday stripped away the rights of states to set their own safety standards for pesticides

Utilities' overall fuel bills are substantially less because they purchased more spot coal in 1986 t

The growth in European demand for thermal coal for the period from 1985-2005 is forecast to outstrip

Combustion Engineering To Close Pa. FactoryEAST MONONGAHELA, Pa. - Combustion Engineering In

Officials on Friday gave the first breakdown of the costs of cleaning up after the Chernobyl acciden

Scientists claimed a major breakthrough in developing a vaccine for malaria, the mosquito-borne dise

The U.S. dollar was mixed Friday in typically quiet pre-weekend trading. Analysts said the d

GENERAL NEWS Congress is likely to give final approval to the tax reform bill this week, des

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

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

SEPTEMBER 21-25 - Independent Insurance Agents of America, 90th Annual Convention - Toronto

Friday September 19, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanadaU.

Consolidated Freightways Inc. will continue to expand its services through a capital spending progra

Union Pacific Ratings Placed on CreditWatchStandard & Poor's Corp. said Union Pacific Corp.'

Money-making hospital chains are more efficient than their non-profit counterparts, which are proppe

The experimental drug AZT appears to extend the lives of some AIDS patients and will become the firs

An unprecedented union-employer health study is under way that may have path- breaking, if unsettlin

Frontier Insurance Group Inc. is scheduled to make its initial public offering this week to raise be

Elements of the insurance industry are lauding a federal court ruling on air bags even though it doe

Container lessors must return to basics if they are to survive and prosper through the present diffi

A year after its founding, the Association of Independent Stevedores and Terminal Operators still ha

Architects, Engineers Set Annual MeetingNEW YORK- The 94th annual meeting of The Society of

Mom Fights Insurer For In-Home CareLOS ANGELES- Evangelina Lopez says her brain-damaged son

Top Stories Independent agents lobby against banks entering the insurance market place, fear

The Port of Fernandina Beach will welcome its first commercial ship service Oct. 2 with the schedule

The labor dispute at Thunder Bay, Canada's biggest cereals export port, is costing Canadian Great La

Ford Motor Co. is shipping 1987 cars to dealers with sticker prices 3.2 percent to 9 percent above

Safmarine Names Finlay,WhiteheadMichael J. Finlay was named chairman and Dennis R. W

Americans' personal incomes climbed 0.4 percent in August, the best gain since April, while their sp

The dispute over how to launch a new round of multilateral trade talks covering both goods and servi

Reaction of Japanese enterprises to newly announced economic sanctions against South Africa by the N

GENERAL NEWS Congress is likely to give final approval to the tax reform bill this week, des

Tunisian Chamber Meets TUNIS, Tunisia - The Tunisian Chamber of Deputies meets today to cons

The compromise tax-overhaul plan that the House will vote on next week is laced with hundreds of spe

Management in the port of New York and New Jersey - the nation's most expensive port - is trying to

Delegates from over 30 nations may agree this week to replenish the World Bank's International Devel

It's all over except the rhetoric on the tax reform bill, but there will be plenty of that over the

The Soviet Union plans to modernize its merchant fleet between now and 1995 by adding hundreds of ne

Richard T. Soper, executive vice president of Sea-Land Service Inc., was elected president and chief

Contract talks between the International Longshoremen's Association and the four-port Council of Nor