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Massive imports of television sets from the Far East may force a major U.S. manufacturer to shift so

The employees of one of America's oldest companies have joined management, the State of Illinois and

The current U.S. economic recovery is long but fragile, and we are skating on thin ice, the congress

Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Co. announced a definitive agreement to sell its Australian a

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey's individual and small group business posted a $65 million

Upstate New York gasoline prices posted their first significant declines of the winter during the l

Raw Sugar Values Expected to RiseThe prospect of raw sugar values moving into "higher price

Continental Oil Co., or Conoco, a Dupont affiliate, was the only Western company to positively respo

President Reagan's national security adviser, Frank Carlucci, views the rising level of imported oil

China will continue to reform the management of its overburdened transportation system, said Qian Y

New England Association of Rail Shippers Spring Meeting, March 4-5, Back Bay Hilton, 40 Dalton St.,

Even as the utility owners of the Seabrook nuclear power plant withstand daily barrages of controver

Perhaps it was not by chance that Italy's Socialist prime minister, Bettino Craxi, chose to submit t

New York State Electric & Gas Corp. says that forming a subsidiary to develop real estate projects i

Armtek Corp., formerly known as The Armstrong Rubber Co., announced that apurchase agreemen

A federal bankruptcy court has rejected a last-ditch effort by Prudential Lines Inc. to keep control

New textile import legislation proposed by South Carolina members of Congress violates several major

Expos Feature Hong Kong GoodsSome 25 Hong Kong manufacturers/exporters will participate in w

Maritime Administrator John Gaughan insists the Reagan administration has in place the basis of a ve

A British-based company has devised an electronic system named Toad to protect commercial ships agai

Five financial firms are asking a federal bankruptcy court to authorize a separate McLean Industries

The first lawsuit to be filed against the New York State Public Health Council in connection with ne

Large-scale farms are gaining in numbers, and an Agriculture Department report says the trend is lik

The European Community Commission proposed a voluntary plan for reducing the use of leaded gasoline.

The port of Pensacola last year had its best tonnage year since 1980, despite keen competition that

Domestic car sales by the top three U.S. automakers rose 3.8 percent in late February from the same

Technology exists to help reduce the problem of acid rain, said the head of W.R. Grace & Co.'s Corpo

Help-wanted advertising in January declined from December but was about unchanged from a year earlie

A bipartisan group of senators and House members formally introduced legislation to change the gover

Placing more than 100 artifacts from the Civil War ironclad Monitor in the Mariners' Museum should

State insurance regulators slapped a quarter-million-dollar fine on Executive Life Insurance Co. of

The government's second-consecutive deficit budget aims to boost business by holding down costs.

West Germany's seasonally adjusted industrial output was 3 percent lower in January than a month be

A new program will allow City University of New York faculty and students to use the South Street Se

Delta Steamship Lines contends it is not liable for a payment of more than $4 million to the longsho

A pier-head jumper is a crewmember who joins his ship at the last minute - if not literally leaping

Strong gains by auto, high-technology and oil issues enabled the stock market to break out of its re

Wed., March 4, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

It will take time to wean agriculture off many of the governmental subsidies and controls that have

An electronic meter-reading system may be the answer to problems of estimated bills now under attack