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Here's the beef, at last. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's new testing procedures are ex

Chrysler Corp. said it is beginning a multimillion-dollar cleanup of a toxic waste dump it owns on t

West Coast ports, which already lead East Coast ports in value of liner cargo traffic, may move into

A/S Ivarans Rederi, a Norwegian-owned shipping company, is threatening to pull out of a cargo-poolin

The U.S. Navy is considering positioning large barges in the Persian Gulf for use as offshore bases

A state court gave insurers a temporary reprieve against a pending ban on health insurers' use of th

Carrier Corp. has purchased Freyven de Mexico SA de CV, the leading Mexican air conditioning company

Britain's manufacturers of Scotch whisky are feeling the fickleness of the human palate where it hur

Meetings of two OPEC committees that monitor world oil prices and the cartel's oil production have b

Angered by clear-cutting of redwoods along the historic and picturesque Skunk Railroad line that

A "Yellow Pages" has been created devoted solely to Electronic Data Interchange users. Publi

Auto Workers to Name US Strike TargetThe United Auto Workers union is scheduled to announce

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When Campbell Soup Co. bought a tiny food producer in Puerto Rico four years ago, the Camden, N.J.-b

The U.S. dollar continued to decline Thursday, weakened by Henry Kaufman's bearishness, and fell thr

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

Federal agencies are aware of nearly 1,900 potentially hazardous waste sites on their property, but

An East-West agreement to cut sulfur emissions, considered the main cause of acid rain in the indust

The man who urges consumers to buy American when it comes to cars and trucks says buy Italian when i

The Massachusetts Port Authority has released a much touted four-point program aimed at increasing s

The Maritime Administration denied reports that chartering commitments have been made with Kuwait re

A General Accounting Office study supports the statistical soundness of the Department of Transporta

Nov. Seminar Planned On Logistics SystemStone Management Corp. will sponsor a one-day semina

London's Docklands, 8.5 square miles of decay once thought irreversible, are being transformed into

Kloster Cruise is waiting until the last minute before deciding whether to exercise its options with

Tokyo has emerged as one of the world's three foreign exchange centers in recent years, joining Lond

The state Insurance Department said automobile insurance companies should not be in a hurry to raise

With owners of defective cars saying the state's "lemon law" may be a lemon itself, state officials

THE DOLLAR WAS MOSTLY FALLING on foreign exchange markets in the last couple of weeks, and the bond

Bowman, 3 Associates Switching Law FirmsFormer Maritime Administration general counsel Roy G

Recent reports that the U.S. Customs Service is investigating Panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Anton

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange will begin trading the Chicago Board Options Exchange'scurrency opti

National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America. Annual government affairs conference.

USDA, Australia Reach Partial Beef AgreementThe U.S. Department of Agriculture reached a par

Coastal Corp.'s Sunshine Natural Gas System filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory

In quick succession, the nine-month-old Cruise Industry Association of British Columbia has lost its

The average American lives better now than 30 years ago and has to work fewer hours to pay for stand

The Railway Labor Executives' Association said it retained Drexel Burnham Lambert to help find finan

You could call it the great-granddaddy of high-tech: A homely, microwave- squirt ing vacuum tube cal

In the executive offices of the major tobacco companies this week, high-level employees, feet on the