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The government issued an emergency order increasing the flying ceiling above Los Angeles Internation

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

A bill to cap gasoline retailers' liability for petroleum spills and use gasoline taxes to help pay

Relations between labor and management are deteriorating in the Australian coal industry. Th

The chairman of the French Marine Insurance Underwriters Association says he was shocked by the vagu

Officials Thursday closed part of an offshore tanker anchorage in the Gulf of Oman following the dis

A supertanker damaged by a mine has spilled 2.5 million gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf, possib

Official plans to boost efficiency at Argentina's money-losing state airline could be undermined by

Great Lakes Caribbean Line, a third-flag carrier in the U.S.-Peruvian trades, urged the U.S. Federal

A recovery in earnings in the United States contributed to a sharp increase in profits during the fi

We have all at one time or another been annoyed and frustrated by the lack of efficiency in modern h

France reinforced its position in 1986 as the world's fourth-largest exporting nation behind West Ge

ALAN GREENSPAN had just taken over the Federal Reserve when it found itself forced to deny a rumor i

The National Association of Manufacturers is fighting hard against enactment of legislation that wou

The Maritime Administration has available a fi nal report on a study comparing U.S. and Japanese pla

Truckers in the Eastern Central states this week joined the growing industry campaign for an autumn

Joseph M. Clapp's appointment as chairman of Roadway Services Inc. completes a management realignmen

The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. reported earnings in the second quarter ended June 30 of $3.2

Louis Mizell, a terrorism intelligence officer with the U.S. State Department, recently passed throu

Hauser Chemical Announces AgreementsBOULDER, Colo. - Hauser Chemical Research Inc. announced

Traders in U.K. government bonds complained earlier this week that the London International Financia

Grace Ventures Corp., a venture capital subsidiary of W.R. Grace & Co., has invested an estimated $3

Two major British insurance companies more than doubled their profits during the first half of 1987.

When London securities firms were desperately recruiting staff to man their new high-tech dealing ro

The Bank of Japan and the country's Finance Ministry have purchased more than 500 billion yen ($3.3

A British politician is calling for tariffs and other trade measures against Japanese exports to Eur

A delegation of Israeli orthodox rabbis is visiting Bangkok this week to resolve a dispute over whet

Philippines Targeted For Wheat PurchaseThe Department of Agriculture targeted the Philippine

Combined revenue and tonnage increased for the North Carolina State Ports Authority during the last

Ford Motor Co. will make TRW Inc. of Cleveland its main supplier of air bags and advanced seat belts

Japan's business community will provide all-out support to the Nakasone administration's decision to

Mike Bradshaw, a geologist with Conoco Inc., digs out a handful of gray sandfrom a bluff ove

An exhibition with a difference is being planned for China late this year - showing off the worst ra

Black Group to Buy South Africa Bus FirmJOHANNESBURG, South Africa - In one of the largest p

Tax preferences for certain insurance companies will be under fire as Congress faces mounting pressu

Nine states have recently received funds from the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund to dev

The U.S. market for methanol is strengthening, driven mainly by a reduction in capacity and a drop i

California's insurance commissioner opposes sale of additional types of insurance at banks, saying s

IGI Inc. and Rorer Group Inc., signed an agreement to jointly develop and commercialize a broad rang

Two years after a packed Japan Air Lines jumbo jet crashed into a mountain in history's worst single