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Millions more Americans are exposed to hurricanes as the population grows in the Southeast and Gulf

A consumer activist accused of improper conduct by senators because of her actions at a product liab

Only a minority of U.S. companies are aggressively pursuing export opportunities in a changing world

Bechtel Group said it will oversee a $20 million contract to build a light industry and science park

A presidential commission investigating the Lockerbie bombing is expected to be highly critical of F

Oscar Camejo saw United Parcel Service salesmen every month. Then he decided to try a new package ca

Cocoa soared to new contract highs on renewed unrest in the Ivory Coast. Prices for the acti

COLOMBIAN MINERS END STRIKE AT EL CERREJONBOGOTA, Colombia - Workers at Colombia's largest c

CRUM AND FORSTER, INC. (Basking Ridge, N.J.) - Robert J. Vairo, president and chief executive offic

A U.S. Department of Agriculture official Monday said the agency is considering raising the Soviet U

LONDON'S FOX EXPANDS ROBUSTA COFFEE RULESThe London Futures and Options Exchange announced M

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PPI Del Monte Tropical Fruit Co. announced Monday it would sell nine new refrigerated containerships

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Exchange rates in the long term will be unstable until financial market participants see that world

President Bush is considering using bureaucratic procedures to delay an historic trade treaty with t

The issue of rail access to the Port of Philadelphia will move to the front burner Thursday when Con

Health care chief executives were the nation's highest paid bosses in 1989, according to a survey of

Geico Corp.'s first-quarter net income rose to $46.4 million, or $3.02 a share, from $45.5 million,

UNITED PARCEL SERVICE'S recent decision to raise prices for ground and certain air services provides

More than 2,000 people died in 70 plane crashes across China in 1989, making it this country's worst

The stabilizing influence of shipping conferences that set tariffs for member lines is declining, th

West German shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd AG is shifting its two newest ships out of the Far East-Europ

Platinum supplies surged to a record high on the world market last yearbecause of increased

The president of USS-Posco Industries announced Friday that he was leaving the company to set up his

In these days of growing environmental concern and overflowing landfills, the comeback of a packing

In the story "ConAgra Buys Fleet," on Page 2B of the May 1 Journal of Commerce, it was asserted that

May 14, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

Private estimates for Brazil's 1990-91 (May-April) coffee crop released last week showed a downward

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

On an October day almost four years ago, the senator from Indiana rose in the middle of a torrid Cap

SUPREME COURT REFUSES STATES' ASBESTOS SUITThe Supreme Court Monday refused to let 30 states

FMC CORP. (Chicago) - Jeffrey Butryn was named marketing manager, hydrogen peroxide, in the company'

SOVIETS ASK JAPANESE FOR PAYMENTS DELAYThe Soviet Union asked Japanese trading houses for a

May 14, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Discussions are under way to divide Petroleos Mexicanos into five separate companies, operating unde

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JAPANESE GROUP BUYS STAKE IN VOYAGER TRAVELJapanese retailer and hotel group Seibu Saison sa

Sen. Jesse Helms said he'll see to it that Congress rejects any worldwide agreement to cut world tra

A new Bush administration position on tanker hull requirements recommends the phase-out of single-sk