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Two Australian companies are to build chemical plants with production largely directed towards the c

Illinois Gov. James Thompson is expected to sign a bill requiring all motorists in Illinois buy car

New Jersey Assembly Republicans unveiled an automobile insurance reform plan that would eliminate ma

Fundamental changes in the U.S. educational system are needed to attract students to technical field

With power supplies already pushed to the limit this summer by this week's heat wave, New Jersey's f

A proposal to lower to 18 the minimum age for driving heavy rigs got an important boost Wednesday wh

Norway is considering a total ban on exports of heavy water after a series of embarrassing charges t

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The United States and other nations might rewrite their own agricultural trade rules soon unless wor

COAST GUARD RESTRICTS VESSEL DRAFTS ON OHIOThe Coast Guard, faced with the impact of the dro

A serious confrontation with labor began Thursday as the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway i

NORWAY TO RESTRAIN NORTH SEA OIL OUTPUTOSLO, Norway - Norway will restrain by 7.5 percent it

The runaway success of a major stock offering in Saudi Arabia is likely to lead to more offerings in

A sailing schooner that once delivered pilots to incoming commercial ships in San Francisco and that

Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway Corp. signed a $100 million, three-year revolving currency and inte

June 23, 1988 Baltic International Freight Futures ExchangePrev.Close High

NO CONSENSUS ON RATES BY GROUP OF SEVENLONDON - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said Thursd

After-tax corporate profits fell 1.0 percent in the first quarter of this year, the worst performanc

A toxic cloud of burning phosphorus spewed from a derailed rail tanker and spread slowly across five

The European Community announced Wednesday it would take urgent action to reduce exports of toxic wa

The Federal Aviation Administration plans tests this summer of a new concept in air traffic control

The St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. is wants to know if its customers want to start communicat

The Argentine central bank approved 15 of the 18 proposals put forward under the government's third

Japan and the United States are near agreement on a new project that both hope will double Japanese

Officials of the Japan Machinery Exporters' Association warned Thursday that the country will have t

CIPHER DATA, WANGTEK REACH SETTLEMENTSAN DIEGO - Cipher Data Products Inc. said it has reach

The U.S. dollar was narrowly mixed Thursday, rising slightly against the deutsche mark and falling m

Containerization began more than 25 years ago but many labor-management practices still have not cau

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

MORE HAGGLING IS IN STORE between shippers and truckers over the shippers' undercharge plan.

US-CHINA TRADE GROUP CHANGES ITS NAMEThe National Council for U.S.-China Trade has changed i

Latin American foreign ministers will meet in the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca on Saturday with s

Personal savings as a percentage of disposable income dipped to 4.7 percent in the first quarter fro

More shots were fired Tuesday in what is becoming a bitter fight to control Pennwalt Corp., the Phil

AIR PRODUCTS HIKES CATALYST PRICEALLENTOWN, Pa. Air Products & Chemicals Inc. is raising al

The House Ways and Means Committee voted Thursday to extend the expiring tax credit for research and

BILL WOULD TIGHTEN SECURITY AT AIRPORTSSecretary of Transportation Jim Burnley has sent to C

Detroit Edison Co. on Wednesday, for the sixth time this month, reported record peak electricity dem

Amtrak's chairman and rail union presidents hotly debated the government- owned passenger line's bid

A strengthening peso and trade liberalization reforms have prompted a burst in import spending that