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Six days of testimony ended with no agreement on the cost of claims filed against A.H. Robins Co. by

SENTIMENT IS STRONG in Washington, but by no means unanimous, for repealingtheWindfall Profi

Morton Thiokol's specialty chemicals group will construct an $8.6 million technical center outside D

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by abasket of currencies deno

Monsanto Co. claimed in a lawsuit filed against American Centennial Insurance Co. that the insurer s

For the week ended Oct. 31 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 10

GAF Corp. Purchases Alkaril ChemicalsWAYNE, N.J. - GAF Corp. said it has completed the acqui

Microsoft executives are wringing their hands waiting for the U.S. government to act on their behalf

With U.S. trade sanctions against Brazil's computer market barriers looming, Brazilian authorities t

The world's biggest marine salvage company warns that the industry will go bankrupt unless insurers

Iran's bid to recoup lost U.S. sales by dumping cut-price crude in the European spot market is in da

The few strings attached to British Airways' planned takeover of rival British Caledonian Airways ar

Union workers at the port of Galveston's dockside switching railroad went on strike Thursday morning

U.S. consumption of polymer blends and alloys are projected to reach 800 million pounds a year at a

Admiral of the Ocean Seas awards were presented to maritime industry leaders recently at an annual d

The Argentine government has taken a cautious first step toward raising oil production prices and, e

Parliament Approves Felixstowe ExpansionProposals to expand the containerport of Felixstowe

Truckload carriers will suffer the worst effects of the driver shortage in coming years as their lab

Automobile plant shutdowns spurred a drop of 2.4 percent in industrial electricity sales in the thir

Current textile quotas: Where the Average Recent Utilization Rate Indicates Full Quota Utilization

Boeing Wins 7 Orders From Four AirlinesFour airlines have ordered seven jets with a total va

Canada's air transport sector is continuing to recover, said a leading industry spokesman. P

Several hundred union members shut down most of Guilford Transportation Co.'s Springfield Terminal o

The acquisition of Chinese rights to import and distribute specialty products such as rubber chemica

On the same day that three Americans were killed just outside Clark Air Base, executives representin

Iraq claimed its warplanes hit another tanker in the Persian Gulf on Thursday, while Iran announced

J.T. Topping Named President of RoadwayAKRON, Ohio - John T. Topping was named president of

As an international conference to woo investment to the Philippines opened in Manila, a senior gover

Carteret Bancorp Inc. has filed a lawsuit in Delaware's Court of Chancery against Home Group Inc.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital are studying several people who suddenly tested negative for e

Electric utilities that depend on residual fuel oil to generate power report volatile prices through

John J. Cramsey said The Alamanc of Transportation has not been published and is only in manuscript

A new health insurance policy that helps pay the sometimes catastrophic costs of nursing home or in-

The port of Oakland hopes to increase its market share from 17.2 percent of the West Coast's cargo t

MALCOLM M.B. STERRETT'S DAYS ARE NUMBERED, or at least those days he intends to spend as a member o

The yen's sharp rise against the U.S. dollar since late 1985 may have hurt Japanese exports, but it

Kaiser Aluminum Sells European SubsidiaryOAKLAND, Calif. - Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp.

Tue., Nov. 10, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Toshiba Co. should not be singled out for trade sanctions after shipping sophisticated milling machi

Rail management, faced with an uphill battle to defend the Staggers Rail Act that deregulated the ra