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A panel of scientists Tuesday tried to sidestep the furor over last summer's drought and the greenho

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear a case brought by two railroads seeking to limit their

Funeral services for Fred H. Tolan, a lawyer and transportation consultant widely known in the Pacif

French road haulers are more afraid of their Dutch competitors than any other as the 1992 deadline f

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

Starting today, Santa Monica residents can fire off a complaint to City Hall, look for a job or chec

GLAXO PLANS TO MARKET ITS FIRST ORPHAN DRUGRESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Glaxo Inc. plans t

The United States finally bowed to the pressure of international opinion and agreed to the establish

The proposed alliance between the leading French insurer Union des Assurances de Paris and Banque Na

The Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board has approved the purchase of 153 acres on which it

A judge Tuesday recommended that Amoco Corp. be ordered to pay about $115 million to France and near

TANDEM CHIEF ACCENTS IMPORTANCE OF GROWTHSAN JOSE, Calif. - "I once ran the marathon in 2 ho

The sudden flurry of shipbuilding orders placed by some of the world's top container shipping lines

At least 30 workers were hurt at South Korea's biggest shipbuilder Tuesday when strikers clashed wit

International Paper Co., the largest U.S. maker of photocopy paper, said last week it believes the F

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines will slash one day off transit time for containers moving between Los Angeles an

In the macho world of highway trucking, no name conveyed more muscle during the 1950s, '60s and '70s

The federal foreign aid agency says the time has come for a radical reshaping of the way the United

C.A.W.T., a San Francisco-based trade finance company partially owned by Austrian banking giant Cred

* Import Quota Watch 4A * Commodity Research Bureau: Soybeans 12A* Don C. Becker - Publisher

Textile Quotas to Watch as of 2/18/89* Fully Utilized Textile Quotas as of 2/18/89

In a case that Washington state says cost its insurance guaranty fund $14 million, top officers of t

NY PORT PANEL AWARDS AUTO TERMINAL CONTRACTIn line with the $5.8 billion capital program in

Feb. 21, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures Market*PrevClose High Low Vol

Orient Overseas (International) Ltd., or OOIL, is refinancing a New York office building regarded as

MNX Inc., a rapidly growing truck line that suffered an earnings slump last year, announced an agree

The U.S. Customs Service has added three countries, Ecuador, Hungary andAntigua-Barbuda, to

One of Canada's biggest retailers warns suppliers that they had better learn to communicate by compu

Feb. 21, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

CHINA TO CREATE FUND TO TRADE CURRENCYBEIJING - China will create a fund this year to trade

Kuwait has not cut its March shipments of crude oil under term contracts to Japanese companies, oil

AMOCO TO PURCHASE COLO. CHEVRON STATIONSAmoco Oil Co. said Tuesday it will purchase 41 Chevr

Asia/Pacific Business Outlook 1989. Feb. 27, 28 & March 1. Davidson Conference Center, Los Angeles.

EX-IM BANK TO REVIVE EXPORT CREDIT PROGRAMThe Export-Import Bank said Tuesday that it will a

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In an unusual move, the Maritime Administration said it will consider offersfrom potential i

Soaring leather prices attributed to Brazil's latest anti-inflation reforms are temporarily pinching

On a wintry day in February, a former Fruehauf executive recalled, an ''impassioned plea" came to Fr

The U.S. dollar pushed sharply higher against the yen at midafternoon Tuesday on reports by a Japane

Todd Shipyards Corp. boosted its estimate of disallowed frigate construction costs to more than $10