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Port directors like to think of themselves as hard-headed businessmen, but W. Don Welch says it's mo

Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., flatly predicted Thursday that there will not be a trade bill until 1988

Julio Lacarte-Muro remembers with amusement the day in 1946 when his boss at the United Nations came

Harvard University is trying to design a feasible program of long-term care insurance for its employ

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An Indian physician and a biochemist said a new analysis of medical data from the Bhopal gas tragedy

Duratek Corp., majority held by National Patent Development Corp., has received its first contract f

Imperial Chemical Says Income UpImperial Chemical Industries PLC of London reported third- q

Tosco Corp. reported third quarter net income of $10.6 million, or 7 cents a share, down from earnin

McDonnell Douglas Taps Bendix for C-17LONG BEACH, Calif. - McDonnell Douglas Corp. awarded a

1947: The Birth of GATT On Oct. 30, 1947, 23 nations signed the General Agreement on Tariffs

The 14th convoy of U.S.-flagged Kuwaiti tankers and American warships left Kuwait on Wednesday night

Major exporters expect to sell less to the United States next year because of the turmoil in the sto

Beryl Sprinkel Stays; Gains Cabinet RankWASHINGTON - The White House said Beryl Sprinkel wil

AVIATION Today's final ruling on the proposed USAir/Piedmont airlines merger will set the to

Four of the nation's top economists surprised the House Banking Committee Thursday by agreeing on th

The Cameroon Development Corp. and Del Monte Tropical Fruit Co. signed an agreement to develop 3,000

Rorer Group Gets Back in the BlackFORT WASHINGTON, Pa. - Rorer Group Inc. announced that thi

Kaiser Steel Corp. said its board approved the sale of the New Mexico coal properties and reserves h

The railroad industry's unions, fresh from what may turn out to be a major victory in a federal appe

Laughter comes easily to Yann-Pierre Remond, so much so the commercial director of the Marseilles-Fo

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The Chicago Mercantile Exchange named a panel of experts to assist it in a thorough examination of e

A new chief executive will take control of the battered stock exchange, and 39 futures brokers are b

U.S. participation in the World Bank and similar international development banks is threatened by a

Mexico and the United States will conclude a long-awaited bilateral trade and investment pact here N

West German crude oil imports dropped 700,000 barrels in September, to 40.3 million barrels from 41

The Detroit Edison Co. said third quarter electricity sales rose 9.3 percentfrom the same pe

The next stage of Malaysia's privatization program may be complete next year, the governor of Bank N

When the Maritime Administration offered the tanker New York for charter or sale from its inventory

No one disputes that the U.S. merchant marine is in bad shape. And prospects for a turnaround are sl

Japan's Aoki Corp. and the Robert M. Bass Group, a U.S. conglomerate, have jointly purchased the Wes

A combined spray booth and stoving oven from Britain comes in either dry- filter or water-wash model

A Kuwaiti oil tanker flying a U.S. flag moored at Yarimca Harbor near this Marmara Sea coastal city

A ferryboat captain faces a U.S. Coast Guard hearing to determine whether he was negligent in the ne

A trade dispute between U.S. aircraft manufacturers and Airbus Industrie is close to being resolved,

The British government's offer to sell British Petroleum Co. shares to the public was undersubscribe

Mrs. Walter C. Diehl takes a cut with a champagne bottle at the prow of a Navy fleet oiler, the Walt

Charles McVey, the elusive exporter who allegedly masterminded a plot to sell supercomputer secrets