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Mail Boxes Etc., headquartered in this California city, received $400,000 under a settlement agreeme

Five Coast Guard boarding parties will be assigned to the Mideast to bolster the Navy's ability to i

Bechtel Corp., contractor for a proposed high-speed rail linebetween Southern California and Nevada,

Atlantic Richfield Co. will keep a 12-day freeze on gasoline but raise prices for diesel and jet fue

The outlook for U.S. construction contracting for 1990 has been revised sharply downward, but activi

The U.S. dollar declined except against the yen Tuesday, as major European currencies were led highe

AIRLINES TO DISCUSS INCREASING FUEL COSTSThe world's major airlines will meet in Geneva next

NORTH AMERICA Autumn and Winter Fashion Gift Expo. Aug. 28-Sept. 10. Mexico City. Contact Ju

Wyse Technology Inc., a California maker of personal computers acquired late last year by Taiwan int

Aug. 21, 1990 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

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A winch holding a cruise ship lifeboat broke during a safety drill, dumping several crewmembers into

NORFOLK SOUTHERN SETS COAL-DUMPING RECORDNORFOLK, Va. - Norfolk Southern Corp. established a

Shiploads of cargo are in limbo across the Gulf of Mexico while shipping agents look for buyers othe

A visit to one of the Chicago futures markets a few weeks ago brought home to Tim Harris, chairman o

With its executive staff trapped in Kuwait City by the Iraqi invasion, United Arab Shipping Co. (S.A

Oil prices remained volatile Tuesday on continued tensions in the Persian Gulf but fell from their m

ONAN SHIPPING LTD. (Seattle) - Joe Marci was named New York account executive for the freight forwar

The Tampa Port Authority turned down a plea from officials of nearby Port Manatee to alter a propose

Emery Worldwide surely thought twice before deciding to implement a fuel surcharge on North American

Lufthansa AG, West Germany's national airline, will likely cancel its recently launched Bonn-Cologne

Hong Kong is wooing U.S. and other corporate investors with offers of below- market landprices in an

Kuwait has told the United Nations that Iraqi occupation forces have mined all Kuwait's vital state

An Iraqi tanker unloaded its cargo Tuesday at the Aden refinery, apparently the first Iraqi oil to s

Dow Chemical Co. awarded a contract to Union Carbide Corp.'s Linde division to build a new on-site c

South Korea's second largest oil refiner and petrochemical company Yukong Ltd. shut down its naphtha

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After sweltering through early August's record heat in London, Copenhagen was delightfully cool.

The Department of Defense is working with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories to develop softwa

This week: NEW ENGLAND: Public Service Co. of New Hampshire, Manchester, N.H.MID-ATLANTIC: N

U.S. nationwide gasoline inventories stand at only about one day's supply above the government's min

Eastern European managers, keen to do business with Western partners, are hopeful that a summer spen

The Department of Labor proposed nearly $280,000 in fines against United Parcel Service Inc. for "wi

A record world wheat crop and the Iraq embargo should cause world wheat trade to be almost unchanged

The ethylene glycol plant in Jubail on Saudi Arabia's eastern coast is still operating normally, a s

The Soviet Union is losing 1 million metric tons of grain a day during the harvest due to labor, tra

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