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California is importing more than tourists this summer. The Golden State also is pulling in

An empty 599-foot Norwegian tanker that went aground at the southern end of Staten Island Thursday i

HIMONT HIKE PRICE OF POLYETHYLENEWILMINGTON, Del. - Himont U.S.A. Inc. has announced an 8-ce

Connecticut scrap metal dealers, facing possible fines, have stopped taking old refrigerators and ot

A survey reveals that 95 percent of U.S. business travelers received no training on how to travel ef

Taiwan's central bank is selling the Taiwan dollar against its U.S. counterpart, analysts in Taipei

BANKEAST CORP. (Manchester, N.H.) - W.N. DeWitt, chairman and chief executive, will assume the addit

FUTURE SHOCK was worrying at least one delegate to the Republican National Convention last week.

New claims for state unemployment insurance benefits were made by 300,000 people during the week end

The International Monetary Fund is about to implement a new program to help developing nations absor

Belgian shipping company CMB SA is getting good shipper response to its new liner service between Br

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Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. has begun exporting California-made Corolla FX cars to Taiwan. The

The economy expanded at a brisk annual rate of 3.3 percent from April through June in spite of a sev

Just as its boxy brown trucks seem to be on the move constantly, United Parcel Service never seems t

IT'S GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS for two Illinois grain shippers. First the good news. The shippe

Ford Motor Co. said Thursday it will invest $238 million to expand and modernize the paint facility

Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. announced that it has negotiated a reduction in its bank borrowing rat

Mitsui & Co. said Thursday it will send a mission to Iran in late September to study the possibility

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken a first major regulatory step toward control of g

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. announced that it will start up a new facility to produce developmenta

Wall Street analysts say Farmers Group Inc. got a good price in its merger agreement with Batus Inc.

Pulp and paper manufacturers here are dismissing a government report warning that potential bottlene

Joint ventures between labor and capital are helping to improve productivity on the Australian water

Participants in a meeting Monday to discuss the medical malpractice insurance crisis with Kansas Gov

Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita has his work cut out for him, even though his maiden visit

France is investigating the alleged diversion to the Soviet Union of dozens of advanced milling mach

Foreign investment will be a keystone in development of Hainan Island, China's newest province and l

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Alarmed at the prospect of having to negotiate business strategy with workers, the airline industry

PHOTO RADAR FACES SHOWDOWN IN COURTPASADENA, Calif. - Three motorists who chose to take thei

Federal officials issued new bridge inspection rules aimed at helping states spot problem spans befo

Shipping lines calling at Thailand's principal containerport are really feeling the pinch from conge

A federal judge has let stand the first damage award in 30 years of anti- tobacco litigation, but al

The worst-ever set of monthly trade figures, showing that Britain is buying far more than it is sell

It seems that it is the airlines that always lead the way with creative marketing schemes to lure t

More than 120,000 skins of a protected species of alligator were smuggled into Japan during the past

Sales of existing single-family homes in the United States fell to 5 percent in July, the first drop

The newest member of the Federal Reserve Board remains concerned that the economy risks overheating

The U.S. dollar will continue to slide as capital flows from abroad dry up, currency traders predict