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Day eight of the trial of Capt. Joseph Hazelwood dawns clear and sunny in the upper reaches of the N

CAN HORIZONTAL DRILLING be the answer to the United States' declining oil and gas production problem

THE WAR MAY CONTINUE, but one of the generals is bowing out. James R. McCarville, executive

The Toronto Harbor Commission opened a new equipment maintenance center, the first new building in t

Industrialized nations have agreed to ease controls on some technology exports to some East European

The customs broker was mystified. When a container loaded with 10,000 garage- door openers was unpac

EUROTUNNEL SHARES PLUNGE DUE TO DISPUTEThe troubled project to dig a rail tunnel under the E

Mack Trucks Inc. reported a loss of $79.5 million, or $2.67 a share,on sales of $370.8 million durin

* Albert L. Kraus - Markets and Money 3A * JofC Industrial Price Index 6A* Commodity Researc

Fri., Feb. 16, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Cigna Corp.'s operating profit dropped about 8 percent last year because of price competition in the

POLAND INKS DEBT PACT WITH 17 COUNTRIESPoland has signed an agreement here to restructure it

If aviation taxes are destined to rise, what can the air cargo industry get in return? That was a ke

Chief Industries of Grand Island, Neb., has negotiated to build a $3 million grain handling system f

THE OCEAN FREIGHT FUTURES MARKET traded sideways last week, with prices for the February, March and

The Port of Seattle is considering building an international satellite network similar to one run by

JUDGE RULES AGAINST RETIREE TAX REFUNDSRICHMOND, Va. - A state judge has ruled that Virginia

There's a new buyer in the international coal market but it isn't likely to mean new business for U.

Feb. 16, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

A high-level Bush administration team is to leave here today for a weeklong trip scouting East Euro

WALL STREET HELD A WAKE, but few came to mourn. The demise of Drexel Burnham Lambert, the investmen

Ground crews at Japan Airlines in Tokyo this week are going over the first of 20 new Boeing 747-400

Barbary pirates once lurked along Egypt's coast to plunder Mediterranean shipping. Their modern-day

CMS GENERATION CO. (Dearborn, Mich.) - Thomas W. Elward, 41, was named vice president of conversion

Trade union leaders said there has been an improvement in the labor and human-rights situation in th

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finds itself in a conundrum as its own deadlines for underg

RELIANCE GROUP POSTS PROFIT FOR 4TH QUARTERReliance Group Holdings Inc. reported fourth quar

New York health insurers may be sounding their own death knell by denying coverage to people who tes

Feb. 16, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Rulings on three patent cases and a series of studies top the International Trade Commission's agend

Falling output by auto factories and utilities pushed U.S. industrial production down a seasonally a

INDIAN AIRLINES' CHIEF QUITS IN WAKE OF CRASHNEW DELHI, India - The chairman of Indian Airli

The French shipbuilders association attacked a U.S. proposal to abolish shipbuilding subsidies that

In trying to reconcile three versions of clean air legislation, Senate negotiators have inserted pro

Chemical giant Allied-Signal Inc. charges that Japan is trying to keep out imports of the company's

The U.S. government's proposed 1990 farm bill sends the wrong signal to General Agreement on Tariffs

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

While Japanese banks are eager gain a foothold in Eastern Europe, they don't want to risk too much i

44 PERCENT OF AMERICANS FEEL JAPAN INVESTMENT 'BAD'Nearly half of Americans see Japanese inv

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