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Truckers are beginning to buy the idea of anti-lock brake systems, and manufacturers are betting tha

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With over 10 percent of the nation's work force estimated to be substance abusers, warehouse manager

The proportion of Britain's seaborne foreign imports and exports carried by U.K.-flag vessels contin

New arrivals at Southeast Asian refugee camps find their tales of escape are often colored by a comm

Northwest Marine Iron Works is the apparent low bidder for the overhaul of a Navy amphibious landing

Alaska and Florida appear to have the five fastest-growing counties in the nation, with one Alaska c

As Takashi Watanabe disembarked from a Tokyo flight, he stood out from the sea of Japanese executive

A strike by engine room officers aboard Canadian Great Lakes vessels has not disrupted traffic, said

Terminating pension plans has been a popular way for many businesses to recover some extra cash sinc

Medicare Part B Rates To Jump Record 38.5 percentThe federal government says Medicare patien

Computers that monitor rest breaks and productivity - sometimes by counting individual typewriter ke

Massachusetts life insurers filed a complaint against a regulation issued by Insurance Commissioner

Federal goals for reducing work-related deaths and disabling injuries in the United States by 1990 h

Life insurance companies must operate under worst-case scenarios to prevent cases of acquired immune

High-risk drivers are being rejected by insurance companies in ever- increasing numbers, forcing ris

More than one in five Californians under the age of 65 are without health insurance, with adults liv

After nearly two months of debate, the Peruvian Congress has approved a controversial law nationaliz

Japan's major banks, riding high on profits from their worldwide investment boom, are boosting reser

The merchant bank Guinness Peat Group PLC conceded Tuesday that Equiticorp Holdings Ltd., a New Zeal

Chile Tightens Rules On Debt ConversionsSANTIAGO - The Chilean central bank has modified the

More and more corporations around the world are helping small, emerging companies launch new busines

THE NEXT ACT of the long-playing drama over the 50-mile longshore container rule opens Thursday in N

Hawaiian Submarines Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii, has asked the U.S. Maritime Administration for permissio

The best way of ensuring improved safety of merchant shipping is to tighten up standards of crewing,

Toxic wastes seeping into the Southern California groundwater supply and expected higher drinking wa

Chemical Products Sets Silicates Price HikeCARTERSVILLE, Ga. Chemical Products Corp. has an

Port authorities that have spent millions of dollars to meet U.S. Customs' aggressive "automate or p

Calumet Manufacturing Co., a subsidiary of Risdon Corp., has begun construction of a multimillion do

A compound shown in preliminary studies to boost general immunity in humans and animals may be teste

Personal Diagnostics Inc. announced that it has agreed with a U.S. biotechnology company on the deve

Gov. Robert P. Casey has unveiled legislation to enable Pennsylvania to create a state Superfund pro

Oil field service companies, buoyed by a mild rebound, are looking for workers and having a hard tim

Misplaced quotation marks in Tuesday's edition quoted Alaska Gov. Steve Cowper as making a statement

More than 300 people aboard an Eastern Airlines L-1011 jet from the Bahamas arrived at Newark Intern

With just over 30 hours remaining before the expiration of the Aviation Trust Fund, the House Rules

Metro-Dade police denied using excessive force on distraught Eastern Airlines passengers accused of

Sponsors of a bill to bring product liability tort reform to the U.S. aviation industry tried Tuesda

Negotiations are under way with the government on a second air cargo terminal designed to double Hon