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Japanese electronics giant Hitachi Ltd. dazzled the world's media when it announced last week it had

Norfolk Southern Corp. considered selling its North American Van Lines division but chose instead to

Last week's major oil spill in New York Harbor is likely to put more pressure on Congress to complet

Texas Instruments Inc. Friday joined a growing list of major defense contractors laying off Texans b

The Illinois Department of Insurance has formed the Urban Area Insurance Task Force as the beginning

Indonesia's coal production rose sharply in 1989 to 8.7 million metric tons, a 31 percent increase o

GRACE ENERGY CORP. (Dallas) - Robert W. Cannon, senior vice president of Grace Energy and president

Echoing New York's former mayor, Ed ("How'm I Doin'?") Koch, the new boss at Eastern Airlines, Marti

June 8, 1990 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond,

J.B. Fuqua never attended college, but the senior chairman of Atlanta-based Fuqua Industries Inc. is

RUSSIAN REPUBLIC SAYS ITS LAWS ARE SUPREMEThe Russian Federation, the largest Soviet republi

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Speculation about who might be the next Federal Reserve vice chairman centered last week on David Mu

The director of Port Manatee on Florida's Gulf Coast last week accused the rival Port of Tampa of u

YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT when insurance brokers convene, but it's neverdull. So

Union des Assurances de Paris (UAP), France's largest French insurance company, has been accused of

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The expanding Japanese power industry is counting on more U.S. coal supplies but not before American

As of June 8, 1990 Prices in the spot chemicals table in clude spot quotations or list price

HERCULES CLOSES PLANT IN CULVER CITY, CALIF.Hercules Inc. said it is ceasing production imme

The House is unlikely to pass a 1990 farm bill until the end of June at the earliest, a ranking memb

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CSX, ELECTRICAL UNION AWAIT INJUNCTION RULINGCSX Transportation Inc. and the International B

Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens dons a cowboy hat and rides the range in a folksy video that he hopes

The world economy has undergone distinct improvements in the past year but is still threatened by so

The European Community is poised for a final push to create a huge 19-nation trading bloc of 350 mil

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

Romania's secretary for privatizations, Adrian Severin, said Friday that a devaluation of the lei wo

The Soviet Union is expected to re-enter the U.S. liner trade and steamship agents are jockeying to

The Port of Singapore Authority's proposed S$500 million (US$250 million) warehousing and distributi

A forum on the Shipping Act of 1984 last week produced an unusual display of harmony among shipper a

MONSANTO CO. (St. Louis) - John Kilkenny was named Monsanto Chemical Co.'s director of plastics busi

Utilities in Japan will use 13 percent more low-sulfur fuel oil this summer than they did a year ago

IBERIA AIRLINES PROFIT TAKES A NOSE-DIVEMADRID, Spain - Spain's Iberia Airlines made a preta

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 241.07 up 0.86 which compares

YEUTTER TO MEET TODAY WITH CANADIAN OFFICIALU.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Clayton

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SIGNS EAST BLOC DEALSLos Angeles-based Nantucket Corp., a computer softwa

JAPAN SEEKS TO SHARE AUTO PARTS TECHNOLOGYThe Ministry of International Trade and Industry w

Two key U.S. trade groups have formally accused the U.S. textile industry of holding current multila

Fifty years after Nazi bombers destroyed Rotterdam, the Dutch city is counting on Germany to strengt