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The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

One of the big unknowns in the wake of the October massacre in the stock market is the impact on con

The European Community and Canada Monday began two days of talks covering strained bilateral trade r

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Three men who had tested positive for the AIDS virus suddenly began testing negative, Johns Hopkins

CSX Corp. said Monday it's too soon to estimate when it can reopen a closed West Virginia railway tu

New Lloyd's of London Broking Group FormedA new insurance broking group that will have stron

A committee of top medical experts in the state has been formed to develop medical guidelines to eva

Any insurer that tries to buy its way out of Massachusetts' troubled auto insurance market should ta

A shocking" lack of medical data is leading doctors to perform common procedures on Medicare patient

Overseas Shipholding Posts Dip in EarningsOverseas Shipholding Group Inc. reported net incom

Nearly 100 longshoremen stormed a public wharf, past a police barricade, to force a non-union steved

US Partner Upgrades Soviet Ethylene UnitCombustion Engineering Inc. of Stamford, Conn., is u

Tennessee-based P&C Bituminous Coal Inc., a major exporter of coal via the Gulf of Mexico, in late O

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

Successful marketing to attract new customers and retain existing ones will be a key to continued st

The Maritime Administration and its Subsidy Board made a rare decision - toallow a subsidize

The Food & Drug Administration Friday issued a long-awaited approval foralteplase, a tissue

Texasgulf Inc. and Albright & Wilson Americas have signed a letter of intent to form a 50-50 joint v

GOING BY THE SCRIPT isn't Mat Scocozza's strong suit. During the Transportation Department b

Eastern Carries Out First Round of LayoffsPink slips have gone out to the first of 3,500 wor

Pan Am Corp. has rebuffed a takeover bid for its troubled airline, Pan American World Airways.

Eastern Airlines flew 2.7 billion revenue passenger-miles in October, a 5.2 percent decrease from 2.

A new railroad is preparing to begin operations this week on the Toledo, Peoria & Western line, but

CN Unit Signs Pact With Hungarian RailsCanac International Inc., a subsidiary of Canadian Na

The Federal Railroad Administration will not reschedule a full-scale safety assessment of Guilford T

Unions representing workers at the Galveston Wharves railroad were preparing over the weekend to ask

The ability to negotiate confidential contracts under upcoming new transportation legislation will p

The board of directors of Royal Caribbean Cruise Line has decided in principle to register the line'

A freight forwarder has urged shippers to hold off tying more than 50 percent of their cargo to cont

The House Subcommitee on Legislation and National Security will take a look Tuesday at the long squa

A Cargill Inc. official has called for the abolition of the government's cargo preference system of

A Maritime Administration official says a special industry committee is working to find ways to impr

The Persian Gulf tanker war proves that the United States can't rely on allies to supply cargo ships

On Competitiveness: You might say we have a raw material problem . . . The raw material invo

Two U.S. agencies have staged a series of ambushes" on ports through which unsafe toys are imported

Computerized diagnostic techniques developed in Britain are designed to extend the working life of c

Caribbean Fashion Fair To Premiere in JamaicaKINGSTON, Jamaica - The Caribbean Basin is amon

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

A few years ago a couple of shoe manufacturers in Greece got a chance to sell some of their products