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Ship Carries Materials For Antarctic LabSEOUL, South Korea - A merchant ship has been dispat

EYEBROWS ARE SURE TO BE ARCHING at seaports all along Florida's extensive coastline with this item.<

Regardless of the impact on its members, the International Longshoremen's Association is willing to

A federal judge has upheld a $20 million award of compensatory damages for birth defects a jury attr

With total cargo volume up more than 20 percent, American President Cos. Wednesday reported third qu

AVIATION Transportation managers hope the legal smoke will be cleared before they are requir

A story on Tuesday's insurance page incorrectly stated the threshold at which life insurers can test

The U.S. dollar declined Wednesday on fears of higher interest rates worldwide. Analysts sai

Investors seeking to diversify internationally should adopt a "passive" investment approach, accordi

Major U.S. banks raised their prime lending rates to 9.25 percent from 8.75 percent Wednesday, follo

Several U.S. bankers and businessmen offered a guarded outlook for American investment in the Philip

Fed Gov. Heller Urges Monetary CoordinationWASHINGTON - Monetary policy should be coordinate

Henry Kaufman, chief economist at Salomon Brothers, predicted the Federal Reserve will incrementally

The Philippines is burdened with a foreign debt of US$28 billion and suffersfrom a domestic

U.S. monetary policy will ease in the near future, Martin S. Feldstein, a former chairman of Preside

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

Bibiano B. Arzano was named to the new position of director, trade development, at the Houston World

Small- and medium-sized exporters in Los Angeles who are having trouble securing loans from commerci

Japan should allow foreign suppliers of semiconductors to double their share of its chip market befo

US Cotton Crop Gains In Southeast and DeltaU.S. cotton harvesting made significant gains in

The United States and Japan pledged efforts to revitalize the body that controls strategic exports t

EC Panel Takes Steps To Sue Over BudgetBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Community's executiv

Police said Wednesday they have arrested a Taiwanese and a Japanese for allegedly illegally copying

It's a heart-warming scenario: A small U.S. shoe manufacturer, threatened with extinction by the ons

The problem of how to put together an acceptable federal spending and revenue package went back to t

Major Banks Raise Prime Rate to 9.25 percentMajor U.S. banks raised their prime lending rate

Matson Navigation Co. has completed its fleet expansion program for the 1980s with the delivery of i

The Massachusetts House voted Wednesday to send Gov. Michael Dukakis' universal health care bill bac

Shipments of shoes to the United States, especially from Taiwan and South Korea, increased last spri

Rep. Richard B. Cheney, R-Wyo., accused House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas, Wednesday of delaying act

On a street corner near National Taiwan University last week, a vendor selling hand-knit sweaters dr

A $55,000 study is under way to test a brand name drug against a generic equivalent. The dru

New Jersey and New York stand a good chance of facing construction bans for failure to meet Clean Ai

The U.S. ban on imports of a synthetic fiber manufactured by the Dutch company Akzo NV is to be inve

MetPath Inc., a subsidiary of Corning Glass Works, announced that it has reached agreement to sell 1

Merck, Salk Announce Joint Research PlansFRANKFURT, West Germany - The West German chemical

Citrosuco Paulista SA, one of Brazil's largest producers and exporters of frozen orange juice concen

The United Mine Workers union violated federal labor law when it negotiated a new contract with with

Soviet and U.S. scientists have endorsed a internationally designed and built experimental thermonuc

The British Columbia government called this week for proposals to construct a natural gas pipeline f