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Police raided an office of the striking black miners' union Wednesday and arrested 78 members on cha

The dollar was down slightly in thin trading Wednesday, as large bank sell orders undercut the curre

An abnormally large jump in oil imports - possibly triggered by concern over events in the Persian G

The Minerals Management Service Division of the Department of the Interior will offer 5,075 tracts c

Taiwanese Encouraged To Invest in the USTAIPEI, Taiwan - Chinese-American women leaders urge

The Brazilian Sugar and Alcohol Institute is expected to sign contracts this week to sell 480,000 me

A retro-illumination camera from Britain is designed to record cataracts and other abnormalities in

The New Bedford, Mass.-based tug Jaguar displays manila bow bumpers little used today as it lays bes

The Netherlands has been sounding out the member nations of the Western European Union, or WEU, on a

Here is an idealized timetable for the discovery and commercial production of oil from the Arctic Na

Weak monsoon rains in Asia and plagues of grasshoppers and locusts in Africa were reported to be thr

Maersk Line has signed a major contract to use Transax/RATES' Shiprate service to automate its tarif

F.W. Woolworth Co. reported its second-quarter earnings rose 19 percent as they were helped in part

AVIATION The original partners in a new European computer reservation system announced a com

Tax reforms enacted by Mexico this year are already boosting revenue substantially, finance official

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Nalco Chemical Unit Acquires Radiant ColorNAPERVILLE, Ill. - Nalco Chemical Co. announced th

Pipeline Company Posts Rise in NetCALGARY, Alberta - Interprovincial Pipe Line Ltd. announce

IF THERE'S ONE THING THAT BOTHERS SOME ALASKA hands it's the way anti- developmen t environmentalist

The Japanese Export-Import Bank approved a $373.3 million loan to finance refinery modernization and

A major Japanese importer has taken North American Bear Co. under its arm and will distribute its pl

Drug smugglers beware. The Coast Guard has added four high-speed, high-tech boats to its fig

Italy has no immediate plans to send minesweepers to the gulf and still believes the United Nations

The mysterious appearance of mines in waters outside the Persian Gulf has dramatically raised the st

The U.S. Navy is sending an unspecified number of small patrol boats to bolster its escort of Kuwait

The Greeks, who have seen themselves grow steadily poorer for two years in a row, have received a wa

Swiss Transport and Energy Minister Leon Schlumpf, who strongly defended Swiss interests in road tra

The number of farms in the United States dropped 2 percent last year, while the size of the average

Singer Engelbert Humperdinck, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's son and 91 other passengers

Intermodal Transportation Assoc., second annual conference and expo, Sept. 8-11, New York Penta Hote

The original partners in a new European computer reservation system - Galileo - have announced a com

Manufacturers Joins New York ExchangeManufacturers Hanover became a member of the New York S

Gasoline supplies continued to decline and distillate oil inventories edged upward last week, accord

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

County agricultural inspectors, who stayed off the job to protest ongoing contract negotiations, hav

A railway labor group is asking a U.S. district court to force the nation's railroads to negotiate w

A petition against the government takeover of Scindia Steam Navigation Co. was withdrawn in Bombay h

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The chances of finding oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Alaska's northeastern coast are

Reports that Japan's Toshiba Corp. has lost its bid to sell 90,000 lap-top computers to the U.S. Air