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An Assembly committee Monday approved a bill that would limit the practice of ''deep-pocket" defenda

Hearing Will Review NY Flex-Rating SystemSuperintendent of Insurance James P. Corcoran Tuesd

When eight Latin American presidents gather in Acapulco for the largest regional summit in 20 years,

Sheraton Corp. is diversifying its China activities to take on management of its first resort hotel

The European Community Tuesday threatened trade sanctions against the United States if President Rea

COAL Bills providing incentives for auto companies to build cars powered by coal- derived ga

The Soviet Union and the United States are again battling over bugs. But this time the bugs

Riley P. Bechtel was named an executive vice president and a member of the executive committee at Be

Talks between the United States and Japan on Japanese import controls on 12 U.S. processed agricultu

More than three-fourths of Japanese workers want to work wholeheartedly for their companies and favo

The European Community Tuesday lifted its threat of higher tariffs on Japanese electrical products i

United States Lines workers are fighting the company's effort to take $7.6 million out of their pens

Trade Deficit Largest Three-Month ShortfallThe nation's trade deficit widened by $274 millio

The Reagan administration announced proposed trade reprisals Monday against both the European Commun

A meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors of the seven major industrialized countrie

U.S. textile and apparel importers and their Indian suppliers are facing millions of dollars worth o

Spot market prices for natural gas have jumped 15 percent to 20 percent in the last few weeks, becau

Burlington Northern Railroad is negotiating with a group of West Coast investors headed by John Gray

A serious squeeze in cargo storage space has San Juan's transportation people wondering how they'll

To hear high-level government officials tell it, the United States' somewhat tarnished leadership in

Bulkitalia, a Genoa, Italy, ship line wholly controlled by Coe & Clerici, will increase its share of

Mobil Chemical Co. will build a polyalpha olefin-based synthetic lubricants plant at Notre Dame de G

The U.S. market for advanced ceramics is projected to climb to $23.1 billion by 2005, spurred by fut

The shuttle launch director at the Kennedy Space Center says it's still possible that the shuttle Di

A method of analyzing genetic material found in evidence has been gaining limited acceptance in cour

Six U.S. senators have urged the United Nations to convene emergency international meetings to respo

Huhtamaki Buys Polysar BusinessSARNIA, Ontario - Polysar Ltd. has completed the sale of its

A new penny-a-dose vaccine can largely prevent typhoid fever, one of the world'smost common diseases

Pennwalt Corp. has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to market an inexpensive

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. and International Paper Co. have agreed on Du Pont's licensing of a ne

Non- communist countries' production of chlorofluorocarbons type 11 and 12 rose to 1.65 billion poun

Growth in international air travel helped produce another increase in the total number of passengers

Indonesia Contracts For Paraxylene PlantJAKARTA, Indonesia - A Japanese consortium won a con

British Airways has launched a new "courier combi" operation in its latest bid to capture all intern

Fokker 100 Is Cited For Its AirworthinessAMSTERDAM, The Netherlands - Fokker Aircraft's Fokk

Burlington Northern Railroad has published a new intermodal services guide that provides customers a

The National Transportation Safety Board is considering making an emergency request to CSX Transport

A public hearing was held Friday to receive comment on the Supplemental Environmental Impact Stateme

Santa Fe Railway Sets Intermodal RecordsSanta Fe Railway is enjoying a record year in interm

Over the last seven weeks, 374 ships traveled up the Delaware River bound for the Philadelphia regio