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INTER-AMERICAN BANK TO CUT STAFF BY 10 PERCENTWASHINGTON - The Inter-American Development Ba

Soviet trade officials say that surface relief shipments to earthquake- stricken Armenia still are n

Traffic Club of Philadelphia. 81st annual dinner. Jan. 10. Rep. James Florio, guest speaker. Hershey

The tiny port of Portland, Maine, proclaimed victory Thursday in a two-year struggle to preserve wat

Cyrus R. Vance was named a director, effective Jan. 1, and appointed chairman of the board of direct

WHAT IT IS: Contracts to carry domestic airmail are big, profitable business for the nation's airlin

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John M. Boles, former chairman of Boles World Trade Corp., formed a new firm patterned on classical

AMSTAR SUGAR CORP. SOLD TO TATE & LYLESTAMFORD, Conn. - Amstar Corp. said Thursday it has so

DU PONT JAPAN VENTURE TO MAKE KEVLAR FIBERE.I Du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington Del., sai

Here is a list of the worst commercial aviation disasters worldwide: 1. March 27, 1977: 582

The European Community said Thursday it was suing nine member states for not enacting an EC law tigh

EC UNVEILS PLAN TO OPEN LIFE MARKETBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Community's executive bo

President-elect George Bush Thursday picked Chicago Transit Authority chief Samuel K. Skinner to hea

Overseas sales by U.S. arms manufacturers shrank significantly in fiscal 1987 despite a strong deman

U.S. paper mills plan to expand capacity for making paper and paperboard by an average of 3.3 percen

Japan's largest domestic airline, All Nippon Airways, finished the first six months of its fiscal ye

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES INC. (Purchase, N.Y.) - IBM has realigned its Personal Systems line

Susan Frank, the former commissioner of ports, international trade and commerce of New York City, ha

Canada and the European Community have resolved their longstanding dispute over discriminatory mark-

TWO NUCLEAR PLANTS GET NRC GO-AHEADThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission ruled Wednesday that th

For the fourth year in a row, Eastern Air Lines has ranked as Puerto Rico's most important air cargo

The Central Vermont Railway has completed the rehabilitation of its newly acquired segment of the Co

Maersk Line and American President Lines Ltd. will tack a 5 percent congestion surcharge on all carg

He's not exactly the Six Million Dollar Man, but he's close. Peter Allen, the consummate son

Venezuelan President-elect Carlos Andres Perez is seeking a $3 billion bridge loan, mainly from the

BSI-BANCA DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA (New York) - Harry B. Folk was named first vice president, corpora

W.K. Lee has been the manager of Hyundai Corp.'s San Francisco office for only four days, but alread

The Port of Tampa had its second-highest year in cargo volume and a 20 percent boost in revenue in 1

The price of platinum has regained much of its nearly $100 an ounce loss to last week's announcement

It was a monument to the glory of the Roman Empire and the Pennsylvania Railroad, a great temple of

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The Ontario Trucking Association is determined to continue its fight to derail the implementation of

Edgar Lawrence Chase III was sworn in as a member of the board of commissioners at the Port of New O

They stand up, they sing, they flicker. Ingenuity and high technology have led to some unusu

PHELPS DODGE CORP. (Phoenix, Ariz.) - Mark R. Mollison was elected assistant treasurer of the copper

The Finance Ministry will significantly tighten regulations governing over- the-counter stock tradin

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

INFERIORITY COMPLEX. For thousands of years, Henry Kissinger said, people have dealt with the Chines