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No one disagrees that Medicare and Medicaid have helped millions of Americans over the past quarter

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

Aug. 6, 1990 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Premi

Lufthansa German Airlines, West Germany's national carrier, will appeal to Economics Minister Helmut

The search for a Greek ship and 31 crewmembers missing in stormy seas off eastern Japan since Saturd

FOREIGN AIRLINES IN US GET IRAQ RESTRICTIONSThe Department of Transportation prohibited all

The U.S.-Mexico border region, branded "a virtual cesspool" in a recent report by the American Medic

The following is the list of bunker prices obtained during the course of week ending Aug. 3, 1990. U

New York Mercantile Exchange Aug. 3, 1990*CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

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

Aug. 6, 1990 Copper Total, 10,471. Gold Total, .1,528,760.Silver Total, .251,062,504.

McDonnell Douglas Corp. filed a shelf registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission for $

Northwest Airlines will begin twice daily non-stop service between Indianapolis and New York's LaGua

Communist-ruled Cuba, starved of hard currency and burdened by an $8 billion foreign debt to the Wes

The Soviet Union could get credits of up to $12 billion over three years to help its economic reform

Japanese stock traders fear the Middle East war might trigger a crash on Wall Street that could caus

Canton Industrial Corp. has created a new unit called Abbott Products Structural Steel Division.

Oil prices made their mark on copper and gold prices Monday. Although copper prices recouped

RADIX GROUP INTERNATIONAL INC. (New York) - Art Samuelson was named district manager of Radix's Seat

Aluminum ingots- $1,715-$1,725 per ton lots & in wareh

Aug. 6, 1990 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Interlake Steamship Co., a prominent operator of U.S.-flag ships on the Great Lakes, last week gave

At a business dinner in Paris, an American executive scoops up a business card from a Japanese count

BOTSWANA - $14.9 million from the World Bank for the improvement of roads to neighboring Zimbabwe an

Aug. 6, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

As of Aug. 6, 1990 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list prices

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While frosts last week did no harm to Brazil's current 1990-91 (May-April) coffee crop, it could lea

The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait could provide a major boost to hard-currency earnings in the Soviet Uni

UNION CARBIDE FORMS COATINGS JOINT VENTUREThree Bond Co. of Japan and Union Carbide Corp. sa

New York state will be 80 percent dependent on imported oil by the turn of the century, an oil indus

The domestic textile industry and its workers are portraying themselves as sacrificial lambs in the

"It was a good deal for both players," said Thomas D. Sargent, vice president of institutional resea

THE COLLEGE OF INSURANCE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. Aug. 14. Parsippany, N.J. First Annual Golf Outing. Kno

The story headlined "Two Team to Cover 1990 Goodwill Games," which appeared on Page 9A in The Journa

SPECTRUM CELLULAR INKS DEAL WITH NEC UNITSpectrum Cellular Corp. Monday announced an agreeme

U.S. forwarder Myers Group Inc. and London-based Constantine Wingate Ltd. have launched a new joint

WORKERS COMP RATES JUMP 29.4 PERCENT IN NYThe New York Insurance Department has approved a t

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ACRYLIC AND STYRENE LATEXES Union Carbide Corp. said it would raise prices for acrylic and s