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MACHINE TRANSLATES JAPANESE TO ENGLISHThe world's biggest consumer electronics company said

ABF FREIGHT SYSTEMS INC. (Fort Smith, Ark.) - John Santa Maria was promoted to senior account execut

Siderbras, the Brazilian national steel company, will open this year's coking coal contract negotiat

Thursday's Journal of Commerce interview with former Transportation Secretary Jim Burnley incorrect

CANADA'S NO. 2 AIRLINE MOVES TO BUY NO. 3Canada's second largest airline operator moved to s

In the inhospitable heat of the earth's lowest point, floating harvesters scoop up a yellowish slurr

Work on Japan's five newest high-speed "bullet train" lines is scheduled to begin before the end of

The Port of San Francisco is embarking on a new strategic plan. After a tug-of-war over fund

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

American President Cos. should show flat to slightly higher fourth quarter and annual earnings when

The Chicago futures industry reacted with a mixture of concern and skepticism to allegations that FB

Natural gas demand should increase 3 percent to between 19.2 quadrillion and 19.5 quadrillion Britis

THE BATTLE TO OVERTURN an Interstate Commerce Commission-approved track abandonment in Kansas intere

SAUDI, ABU DHABI SALES TO BE CUT IN FEBRUARYSaudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi have told customers i

Canadian bankers are striking out against a recent federal government decision that would allow Amer

An investment group working with Eastern Airlines' unions may make a bid to buy the troubled carrie

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Hanson Industries' SCM Chemicals unit has begun production at its expanded and converted Western Aus

Henry V. Rabouin Inc. Vice President R. Douglas Kimple says New York State is looking mighty good as

Brazil, which last fall resumed payments on its foreign debt after a long moratorium, could be force

U.S. Customs officials this week announced their newest weapon in the war on drugs: small "sniffer"

Months after concern flared over the spreading of the AIDS virus prompted a shortage of rubber glove

Dry bulk ocean freight rates climbed this week to their highest levels since 1981, extending a six-m

China Ocean Shipping Co., or Cosco, is beginning another container servicefrom China to the

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Unisys Corp. has introduced its new Micro A computer, a machine the company claims provides the powe

Haggar Apparel Co. doesn't want to talk about pilot tests for electronic data interchange. W

RYDER TRUCK RENTAL SIGNS NEWSPAPER DEALRyder Truck Rental signed a contract with the Chicago

The Port of Montreal handled a record volume of containerized cargo for the sixth consecutive year i

Pennsylvania insurers argued against unisex insurance rates Wednesday before a state supreme court h

FIRST TWO SUITS FILED IN PAN AM CRASHThe families of two victims of last month's Pan Am cras

Health groups could succeed in banishing palm oil from chocolate chip cookies made in the United Sta

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EXPORTS OF COFFEE FROM COLOMBIA FALLBOGOTA, Colombia - Colombian coffee export volume and in

WHAT IT IS: The Overseas Private Investment Corp., popularly known as OPIC, began operations in 1971

FULLER UNIT ACQUIRES ADHESIVES COMPANYH.B. Fuller Co. said it acquired an Italian company th

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CITICORP (New York) - Sandra W. Meyer was named head of global communications. The new senio

US INVITES ALLIES TO WASHINGTON MEETWASHINGTON - The United States has invited finance minis