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The Big Three U.S. automakers got 1989 off on an upbeat note, selling 3.7 percent more U.S.-built ca

Japanese grain buyers have begun shifting significant quantities of U.S. grain export shipments away

APCO ASSOCIATES (Washington) - Former Rep. Don Bonker, a key figure in world trade issues when in t

An expert in superconductivity called for "truth in advertising" for the technology he said has been

The government Friday drastically revised standards for workplace exposure to hazardous materials, r

With the same visions of stardom that carried scores of farm girls to this town in years past, forei

Gasoline and diesel oil purchasers in Massachusetts face a 10-cent-a-gallon hike in the state's moto

For the last 10 years, Del Monte Foods, Coral Gables, Fla., has been prominent in the grocery indust

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

Freight futures prices moved last week to levels reminiscent of the rally last spring. As th

Japan's two biggest securities companies, Nomura Securities Co. and Daiwa Securities Co., said Frid

Insurance Commissioner Roxani Gillespie cited seven Fireman's Fund companies last week for refusing

County NatWest Government Securities Inc. Friday announced that it had disbanded its U.S. primary de

JAPAN SAYS IT FINDS CHEMICALS IN US RICETOKYO - Tests on rice grown in the United States con

William Von Raab, relentless proponent of automation, said the electronics programs he pushed during

On a run to Oklahoma City a few years ago, a driver for Sunstar Foods Inc. discovered a few broken j

ALEXANDER & ALEXANDER INC. (New York) - Roger W. Clark was named managing vice president of the Denv

General Electric Co., the big U.S. conglomerate, and Britain's General Electric Co. PLC said at the

U.S. Customs Commissioner William von Raab wants to allay the concerns of importers about the agency

Lawsuits involving faulty products and consumer injury have increased fourfold since 1976, but most

U.S. paper companies are expected to report record 1988 earnings amid strong domestic and foreign de

JOHN BOWERS President of the International Longshoremen's Association only since 1987, John

Socanav Inc., Montreal, Canada's leading bulk petroleum and petrochemicals shipping firm, along with

Zantop International Airlines Inc., one of the nation's largest regularly scheduled all-cargo carrie

IBERIA STRIKE WORSENS, 105 FLIGHTS CANCELLEDMADRID, Spain - Spain's Iberia International Air

The British government ordered a probe into a reporter's allegations Friday that he found alarming h

FRIDAY THE 13TH VIRUS HITS PCS IN BRITAIN- A "Friday the 13th" computer virus struck persona

An industry-managed berth scheduling scheme has succeeded in eliminating much waiting for dock space

With two more cocoa ships on the water and thousands of bags already processed and discharged throug

The secondary market for developing country loans is fast becoming one of the major investment banki

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

The Interstate Commerce Commission sided with shippers in three separate truck rate disputes last we

The Interstate Commerce Commission's denial of Canadian National's bid for trackage rights over the

The New York Insurance Department announced its intention to expand its regulation of financial guar

U.S. spending on health-care costs, which reached $500.3 billion in 1988, are expected to keep climb

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The Interstate Commerce Commission's decision last week to overturn an arbitration award against Gui

Automakers in Brazil, led by Ford and Volkswagen, fear that U.S. consumers will be buying fewer Braz

The Tennessee Valley Authority said coal bids it rounded up over the phone during the second and thi

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