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The U.S. Energy Department said a federal appeals court ruling upholding the validity of synthetic g

Two Buyers Will Share Cogeneration PlantEnron Corp. said its subsidiary, Enron Cogeneration

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

Key stevedores in New Orleans, hoping to block rubber importers from going to another port, have agr

Grape Grower Expects A Peaceful HarvestTHERMAL, Calif. - The Coachella Valley's largest tabl

Ministers of the six member nations of the European Free Trade Association meeting in Switzerland re

In a move hailed by environmentalists, Arco Petroleum Products Co. will sell methanol fuel in at lea

Oil prices weakened slightly on the Rotterdam spot market as more crude from the Middle East arrived

The Tennessee Valley Authority's spot coal awards slowed to a trickle in mid- May when the power pla

The latest spate of economic reports from the government amounted to a nice bo nus before the holida

The new longshoremen's contract has induced more than 1,000 dockworkers to retire in the New York/Ne

It's seven o'clock Sunday evening in May. But as they used to say on radio, ''Let's take you back to

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

A $1.8 billion subsidy program to help curb surplus milk production fails to ensure that all payment

Quebec's provincial government cannot accept a U.S. demand for the elimination of restrictions on fo

International Minerals & Chemical Corp. will sell a group of small volume retail fertilizer centers

Simex Investigating Alleged Trading AbuseSINGAPORE - The Singapore International Monetary Ex

The Federal Maritime Commission won't let a company's going out of business deter its tough enforcem

An Iranian gunboat attacked a small Qatari ship in the Persian Gulf, critically injuring three crewm

The United States is pressing South Korea and Taiwan to adopt the open-market policies of Singapore

If the Harland and Wolff shipyard hadn't diversified from being strictly a merchant shipyard, it "wo

Florida TaxWatch, a non-profit governmental watchdog commission, has criticized the state insurance

Next stop for many short-line and regional railroads - the Electronic Data Interchange station.<

Sea-Land Service Inc. is opening a new Pacific Northwest headquarters in Seattle, Wash., to accommod

The growth of the municipal bond insurance industry will increasingly depend on its creativity to de

Firms continue to cram into Manhattan because the island has become a sort of massive front office f

Worldwide fear of the killer disease AIDS has brought a bevy of new customers flocking to the dirty,

Banco Central SA, a major private banking group headquartered in Madrid, Spain, filed a registration

A New York health insurance firm's treatment of its 1.8 million subscribers is unconscionable if not

Commerce to Report On Income, SpendingThe Commerce Department reports on personal income and

GENERAL NEWS Observers greeted a flurry of government economic reports with relief. Page 1AG

Industry insiders are saying that Cummins Engine Co.'s medium-duty engines may have trouble finding

United States Lines Inc. has received permission from a U.S. bankruptcy court to sell its customer m

American Airlines is transporting more than people these days. The Dallas-based airline beli

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The Investment Company Institute representing the mutual funds industry said it is planning form an

WORLD BANK PAKISTAN - $152 million to help Pakistan complete rebuilding of the country's maj

Efforts by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to improve world trade rules and their observa

While they would not like it to be known, some 48 percent of British women wear a U.S. size 14 (Brit

Bob MacDonald is back again. The former president and chief executive of ITT Life Insurance