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"God really is a Brazilian. If not, I suspect your ancestors bribed him," remarked Chinese Prime Min

Timber may always be the bread-and-butter commodity at the port of Olympia, but seed used to grow gr

High oil inventories, which built up at a rate of 3.5 million barrels a day during the third quarter

GENERAL NEWSMany corporate directors received double-digit pay increases this year. Page 3A

Amoco to Maintain Spending Levels in '87Amoco Corp. will hold capital and exploration spendi

A consortium of Mexican and Argentine companies is said to have won the contract to build a second n

Texas oil producers will not be forced to cut their output levels, despite efforts by two Dallas oil

Many corporate directors, facing intense legal and other pressures, have received double-digit pay i

In the wake of United States Lines' financial problems and amid widespread industry skepticism, a We

An economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland says he believes airline deregulation has bee

Although the air courier industry emphatically makes a distinction between itself and the sellers o

American Hoechst Corp. announced that it has supplied voluminous materials in response to the second

Drivers have found a host of ways over the years to outsmart black boxes and other driver-control de

Bob Bergland says it's time that local electric cooperatives step fully into the limelight and becom

Burco to Discuss Role of Trade GroupLONG BEACH, Calif. - Robert A. Burco, executive director

Former Lloyd's Chief Questioned on DealingsA former chairman of Lloyd's of London, Sir Peter

John DiGilio, charged along with the general organizer of the International Longshoremen's Associati

As attention in the United States shifts increasingly to the rising trade deficit with Pacific Rim c

Reebok, S. Korean Firm Set Joint VentureCANTON, Mass. - Reebok International Ltd.'s subsidia

Two New York City jewelers who apparently had an unusual faith in their ability to beat the lie dete

Net new credit demands in the United States will rise more slowly in 1987 and will be easily accommo

S. Korean Constitution SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's two opposing parties agreed to res

The economies of South Korean and Taiwan, two of Asia's four dragons, are forecast to grow 8 percent

U.S. factories, utilities and mines operated at 79.3 percent of capacity in November, after adjustme

Anti-Dumping Duties WASHINGTON - The U.S. International Trade Commission cleared the way for

Public Service of New Hampshire Corp. today will apparently become the nation's first utility to as

True to the promise its maverick chairman, T. Boone Pickens, made last year, Mesa Petroleum Co. is w

Lucidol Increases Prices by 5 percent Lucidol announced a price increase of 5 percent for sv

The Interstate Commerce Commission adopted new rules permitting railroads and other carriers to make

Cessna Aircraft Co., which has spent most of this year cutting back, apparently is proceeding with d

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced plans to change futures settlement procedures, a move aime

Soviet grain imports in the current marketing year could drop to 20 million metric tons, an official

Private Japanese corporations predict their country's sagging economy will recover substantially bet

The United States incurred a record $36.2 billion deficit in its international payments on current a

The Company for Financing Production has put its December estimate of the 1986-87 soybean crop at 15

The Department of Transportation should make electronic recorders mandatory for heavy trucks to kee

Once again Grenada is living up to its name as the Spice Island as its nutmegs have come into demand

The New York Stock Exchange and about 40 other witnesses are testifying before the Securities and Ex

A Southern building slump caused U.S. housing construction to drop 1.8 percent in November, the thir

BASF Wyandotte Corp., the third-largest dye company in the world, is considering the expansion of it