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The president's budget director is not convinced that the latest congressional budget deal is good e

Recent disclosures of illegal sales to the Soviet Union by Japan's Toshiba Machine Corp. have put th

US Sees Threat To Nuclear Arms PactVIENNA, Austria - A U.S. official said Monday U.S. partic

AVIATION There has been an 800 percent increase in reports of pilots flying in restricted ai

International Coffee Organization producers, who planned to make a proposal to consumers Monday on t

Continental Corp.'s plans to sell its $432 million life insurance operations stem from a long-term s

Federal Aviation Administration chief Allan McArtor announced Monday that his agency would begin ins

Singer Division Wins Delta Simulator JobBINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Singer Co.'s Link Flight Simulati

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

The following index charts weekly changes in motor carrier tonnage originatingfrom 49 produc

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

What goes up in the heavy-truck market will come down next year, says Data Resources Inc. in a recen

Sept. 21 Baltic International Freight Futures Exchangeprev.Close High Low

Pharmacia Leo Inc., an affiliate of Pharmacia AB, a Swedish-based biotechnology and pharmaceutical c

Pfizer Buys Complex From Gulf & WesternPfizer Inc. announced an expansion and consolidation

Aetna Employees To Get Care InsuranceHARTFORD, Conn. - Aetna Life and Casualty Co.'s 49,000

Bechtel Group, the nation's largest construction company, says it expects this week to become the fi

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

Plomarity Is Elected Gulf Ports PresidentPENSACOLA, Fla. - Harry G. Plomarity, port director

If Long Island Lighting Co. is taken over by the Long Island Power Authority, electric rates will be

The market for man-made fibers in the European Community is estimated at $4.8 billion and is project

Getting away with murder may not be so easy anymore. Biotechnology has engineered a forensic

Nearly 13 million pounds of Australian beef are sitting in Philadelphia area warehouses awaiting fed

An Omani oil official warned in a statement published Thursday of a further drop in oil prices if OP

Three men could sail the largest supertanker, standing watch in turn around the clock on the bridge.

Months of Iranian shelling have turned some neighborhoods of Basra, fabled as the starting point for

Wet barrels of gasoline in New York harbor are more expensive than paper barrels. Trade sour

Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone is expected to outline a new "comprehensive package" of trade conce

The Detroit plastic injection tooling company D-M-E sells 300 molding kit sets in Michigan every mon

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Negotiations on drafting a 1988 European Community budget broke off late last week with no agreement

Argentina's available official reserves are down to barely one month's imports as trade terms slide,

The government's unwillingness to underwrite the U.S. Landsat system of Earth-viewing satellites may

Fri., Sept. 18, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

The maximum benefits under temporary disability, worker's compensation and unemployment insurance wi

Independent truckers told the Pennsylvania Supreme Court they risk losing millions of dollars in tax

Last week's two-day strike by 14 labor unions against the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad marked the

Tacoma Boatbuilding Co. has begun implementing a reorganization plan that was accepted by a U.S. ban

Consumption of U.S.-produced fertilizer products were mixed for the crop year-to-date period, from J

Foremen represented by the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union will resume contrac