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Volkswagen, the West German-based car manufacturer, said it will permanently close its automobile pr

Indonesia Investors Forum. Nov. 23-27. Jakarta. Contact Investment Promotion Service, United Nations

Agricultural exports rose $1.6 billion and 20 million metric tons in fiscal 1987, an 18 percent incr

The House of Representatives has approved a measure that would oblige most foreign recipients of cas

US, Japan to Discuss Farm Trade IssuesThe first of two separate meetings on bilateral agricu

Commercial property/casualty brokers say the insurance carriers they use give them average or less-t

A Cook County Circuit Court judge last week gave final approval to a plan to offer settlements of $8

Each November for more than 20 years tank trucks have raced across the rolling hills of Beaujolais t

Catastrophe Program Set for AIDS VictimsA new AIDS catastrophe reinsurance program is being

Social Security and Medicare should be phased out and replaced by a compulsory private insurance sys

New Hampshire will dismantle its market assistance program for day care and municipal liability as a

A state Supreme Court judge last week ordered the state of New York to show cause why health insuran

Blue Cross of California, the second-largest health insurer in the state, has announced it will rais

The 500,000 California motorists whose automobile insurance comes through the assigned risk plan wil

And we're living here in Allentown. And they're closing all the factories down. - Billy Joel

The ruling Politburo approved plans last week for a government-run job placement service and greater

A judge ruled in a trademark dispute that film star Elizabeth Taylor cannot market her perfume line

California consumer prices in October increased by 0.5 percent in the Los Angeles region and by 0.4

All the tea in China may be fine, but it needs to get abroad to earn foreign exchange. We ha

Airbus Industrie of North America Inc. is more than halfway to its goal of capturing a 30 percent sh

Bar codes and electronic data interchange are about to marry to revolutionize how goods are transpor

The Federal Maritime Commission will consider restricting the reduced-rate service contracts that th

An 11th-hour effort is under way in Congress to enable the United States to implement on Jan. 1 a ne

W. African Conference To Increase ChargesThe American West African Freight Conference will i

The captain of an oil tanker who was below deck during a fatal collision with a fishing boat has ple

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

A transportation researcher says cargo preference can hurt commercial wheat exports when a country's

The flight of Greek-owned ships from the Greek maritime registry resumed in October. Shippin

Officials seeking a home for Sematech, the proposed semiconductor research consortium, apparently ha

It may be difficult to discern a silver lining in the dark cloud that has been hanging over Wall Str

The accounting profession appears headed for a shake-up in standards that has drawn debate in accoun

Beecham Group PLC reported pretax net income for the first six months ended Sept. 30 of 181.2 milli

Manufacturers of chemical specialties products are less than pleased with the prospect of having to

Du Pont to Set Up Venture in S. KoreaSEOUL, South Korea - E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co's Du

State tax officials have unveiled new rules that will stop crooked gasoline distributors from evadin

Borden Chemicals & Plastics Ltd. Partnership has launched its initial public offering of 21,000,000

The Columbia Gas System Inc. signed a letter of intent to acquire Lynchburg Gas Co. for $11 million

Oman to Curb Output In Support of OPECMUSCAT, Oman - Oman will keep its oil production at th

Despite turmoil in the Persian Gulf, an oil economist predicted that oil prices will stabilize and e