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

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

Calif. Utility Puts Solar System in ServiceThe latest in a series of commercial-scale solar

Air Express International agreed in principle to acquire the Pandair Group of Companies, the air fre

Brown Transport Co. Inc.'s acquisition of Thurston Motor Lines Inc. creates a giant non-union trucki

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

The U.S.-Canadian free trade agreement would make Canadian oil exempt if the United States adopted a

The Jamaican government has given the Aluminum Co. of America an ultimatum on deciding the future of

China is rehabilitating a textile mill it built in central Jamaica 11 years ago under a new joint ve

Official Exempts Self From Trade DecisionsRobert E. Watkins, deputy assistant secretary of c

A top-level official of the Japanese government has proposed a multimillion- dol lar package of non-

Soviet experts will visit U.S. chemical weapons facilities next month in Tooele, Utah, the State Dep

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

Transportation managers are hoping the legal smoke will be cleared before they are required to imple

A majority of passengers favor additional restrictions on airline smoking, but the Transportation De

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

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

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

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

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

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

Consumers Power Co. and Bechtel Power Corp. said Wednesday that they had reached a tentative agreeme

October 7, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon

Boeing Receives Orders From Australia, UKBoeing Commercial Airplane Co. received orders from

NYC Seeks to Broaden Transit Voucher UseThe city is investigating the possibility of letting

A negotiating session between representatives of 14 striking labor unions and the management of the

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

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

Tin-producing countries meeting in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur believe that their policy of e

Rom-Amer Pharmaceuticals Ltd. said it signed a binding letter of intent with G.U.S.m.b.H. of Cologne

Japanese shipowners and seamen agreed Wednesday to allow Japanese and Japanese-chartered vessels to

Saudi Arabia denied reports that it was offering crude oil at discounts from the official prices est

Pacific Lighting Sells Real Estate UnitsPacific Lighting Corp., parent of Southern Californi

Backers of a vetoed bill that would have regulated "Medigap" health insurance policies sold to the e

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee looking at product liability law reform wants assurances

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

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

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

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