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Union Threatens Strike JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The predominantly black National Union o

The chairman of the Massachusetts Public Utilities Commission says Boston Edison Co. needs a new chi

A bigger Strategic Petroleum Reserve offers the best chance of avoiding future oil supply interrupti

Imperial Chemical Industries PLC, Britain's largest industrial group, is selling its loss-making pet

The Maritime Administration gave interested parties only until March 9 to file views on American Pre

With champagne and sprays of flowers, the mayor of San Francisco and the deputy governor of Guangdon

Aircraft Purchase Eyed NEW YORK - American Airlines, having just negotiated a three-year con

Southern California's maritime community is worried about a proposed requirement that most ships ber

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

For the first time in its history, Portland-based Northwest Natural Gas Co. has started pumping gas

A Sun Co. subsidiary will open an operations office in Libreville, Gabon, and begin offshore explora

Sun Chemical Corp. will lose its leased pigments manufacturing facility in Huntingue, France, and is

Presidential Airlines said it will revamp its schedules and service later this month to conform with

When Matt Viio worked as an electrician in Sweden 15 years ago, it irritated him to have to work in

The chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission said it is not necessarily completely satisfied with

Singapore's Economy Grew 1.9 percent in 1986Singapore's economy grew by an estimated 1.9 per

Exports and re-exports here in January were slower than in December, but boomed compared with a year

Daewoo Motor Corp., one of South Korea's largest automobile producers, will greatly increase the val

A company that was low bidder on a major dredging job at Hampton Roads, Va., has won a $53.9 million

A story on these pages Feb. 27 reported that decreases in the port of New Orleans' pricing take effe

The Massachusetts attorney general has recommended a 1 percent increase in 1987 automobile insurance

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

The U.S. will continue to be confronted with increasing supplies of palm oil at least until 1990, de

One of the biggest natural gas discoveries in recent years has been found in southern Louisiana near

Renault Vehicules Industriels, the truck and public transport division of France's state-controlled

Soviet Union Opens Siberian Air SpaceTHE HAGUE, Netherlands - The Soviet Union Friday opened

It's a far cry from the delicacy of traditional Kabuki dance forms, but Japanese have taken to the t

The St. Lawrence Seaway is holding its own in the face of dramatic worldwide market changes, U.S. an

U.S. companies are rushing to buy themselves back. Scores of publicly held businesses are re

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New Board Elected At Canadian PlatinumCALGARY, Alberta - Canadian Platinum Refineries Inc. a

The U.S. sugar program was under fire at the International Sweetener Colloquium last week, but the c

European oil prices maintained their uneasy recovery in thin trading as refiners were lured back to

Occidental Chemical Corp. has announced a $10 a ton increase in its off- schedule price for chlorine

The state Public Service Commission is considering suspending a $326.5 million rate hike granted Mis

Events this week could signal the fate of the proposed merger of the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacif

When the auto workers' union and Ford Motor Co. pleaded for sanctions against foreign auto imports i

A federal judge, in a decision that is believed to be the first of its kind in U.S. District Court,

India's engineering companies are ready to claim sizeble space" in the U.S. market, the country's tr