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Local entrepreneur Li Ka-shing seems firmly back on the acquisition trailwith announcement of a huge

Fuel oil dealers, operating in a volatile market with tight margins and strong competition, need eff

Kleer-Vu Sells Part Of Cosmetics UnitsKleer-Vu Industries Inc. recently reported the $12 mil

Around 1770, British Customs officials were complaining that sleek trans- Atlantic mail ships were t

Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole said she will resign at the end of this month to wor

Semiconductor companies, which protested for years that Japanese chips were being sold too cheaply,

A fledgling Connecticut telephone company soon could be helping China in its quest to emerge from th

Identix Inc. announced that it has been chosen as a vendor of high security products used in Saudi A

Bush to Hold Talks With EC ExecutivesBRUSSELS, Belgium - U.S. Vice President George Bush wil

A lot of truckers laughed when the Budd Co. introduced its anti-lock brake system. The year

The security fund of the New York Insurance Exchange won't be able to cover the undiscounted losses

Foreign exchange investors here, battered after two years of a declining U.S.dollar, gradual

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

Indonesia bought 40,000 metric tons of U.S. No. 1 yellow soybeans for Sept. 18-30 delivery under PL-

Hemmeter Corp. and HAL Inc., the parent company of Hawaiian Airlines, have announced plans to merge

The Phoenix Project has been rising from the ashes of rumor regularly over the past several years, a

A $10 million appropriation for operation, maintenance and rehabilitation of New York's barge canal

Japanese imports of manufactured products during the first six months of this year climbed to a reco

The short-term prospects for Caribbean economies are not encouraging, with only moderate growth like

1049.0 (Sept. 14) Previous day - 1060.5 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

Italy Announces Steps To Defend the LiraROME - Italy introduced a package of foreign exchang

Federal investigators are examining the competence of the management at the Oyster Creek nuclear pow

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Two U.S. companies say they are negotiating to buy nonferrous metals and rare earths in China for sa

IBM, Fujitsu Resolve Long Copyright FightInternational Business Machines Corp. and Fujitsu L

Three Chubb Managers Promoted to Senior VPNEW YORK - Chubb Corp. promoted three of its manag

Fresh findings that suggest a cancer risk for some Vietnam veterans have reopened a political and sc

William J. Welsh has been in the book business all his working life. My father was a great l

Many maritime companies have fled to New Jersey or Connecticut in recent years to escape the costs a

Insurers of risk purchasing groups in Iowa say they need to lose now in order to win later.

Massachusetts commercial health insurers will sit down to plan their response to a 159-page health i

The hard new debt stance taken by Argentina in the wake of its elections has driven prices for its d

The book in his hand was printed in the 1880s. He can't open the coverbecause if he does, th

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British Coal and the country's largest miners' union failed to reached agreement Monday in talks whi

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Cathay Pacific Jet Lands Safely at NaritaA Cathay Pacific jumbo jet bound for Osaka from Hon

Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co. and a potential industrial customer in Michigan have received federal

Jamaican Banana Exporters, one of the island's leading private conglomerates, and the state-owned sh

From gas tanks and household gas meters to photocopiers, China State Shipbuilding Corp. is diversify