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The Atran River, tumbling lazily into the North Sea, was so vinegary from acid rain 10 years ago tha

PPG Industries announced an agreement with Sudamtex de Venezuela CA of Caracas, Venezuela, to form a

Students Thursday burned an effigy of the former chairman of Union Carbide Corp. and shops closed in

Industry Optimistic On Clean Air VoteIndustry groups opposed to tougher controls on air poll

Crude oil prices in Argentina were hiked almost 50 percent under the government's long-promised move

Suppliers of electronic data interchange transmission expect prices for their services to hold stead

A panel of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade has upheld a U.S. complaint that a Canadian ba

The trade minister for the 12-nation European Community said Thursday that Japan has been having a r

Whirlpool Ends Talks With PhilipsBENTON HARBOR, Mich. - Whirlpool Corp. said discussions wit

Coastal Unit to Buy 20 Jiffy MarketsCoastal Corp. said a subsidiary signed an agreement to b

Santa Fe Railway To Begin RestructuringThe Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway will begin

For the week ended Nov. 21 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 10

Thu., Dec. 3, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

Heads of government of the 12 European Community members, arriving Thursday for a summit meeting, ar

The American Stock Exchange expects to start a computerized exchange in 1988 to trade certain foreig

Just where is the U.S. economy heading? This question came a little closer to home this week

Japan blocked the approval Thursday of a ruling by the world's main free- trade group telling Tokyo

The Reagan administration is expected to announce next week U.S. participation in a major Soviet tra

Top-level Japanese officials are convinced they must resolve differences with the United States over

Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney sees no major obstacle preventing resolution of a final text

Rohm and Haas Co. and Sumitomo Chemical Co. signed an agreement to form SumikaHaas, a Japan-based jo

With the enactment of an official international version of a shipping invoice for use on electronic

The Chinese petrochemical industry must double refining capacity and output by the end of the centur

Central and South West Corp. said one of its electric operating subsidiaries, West Texas Utilities C

The continued decline of the dollar against the deutsche mark lessened the impact of market improvem

One of New England's largest wholesale fuel oil distributors has made its first acquisition.

Florida Rock & Tank Lines Inc. earned $469,000, or 10 cents a share, in the fourth fiscal quarter 44

Robert F. Corroon is stepping down as chief executive officer of Corroon & Black Corp., a large publ

Australia May Resell Beef Rejected by USSYDNEY, Australia - About 1,800 metric tons of Austr

Passengers on a flight to Miami had an unusual companion. An endangered sea turtle, rescued from a p

CNW Corp. said the Iowa Department of Transportation has acted incompetently in releasing statements

EC Investigates Aid To German ShipyardsBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Community Commission

Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co. Inc. has emerged after nine months from reorganization under Chapte

The United States and the Soviet Union stand poised to modify their 21-year- old commercial aviation

A national insurance agents group has aligned itself with consumer groups, including one of the insu

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Official estimates for Argentina's coal reserves have been raised 32 percent to 750 million metric t

Small trucking companies can create complex computer links with their customers as easily as large,

Dec. 3 Baltic International Freight Futures Exchangeprev.Close High Low

The port of Chicago's new marketing director wants critics to know the port is "not just under new m