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Operating Profits Rose At Travelers in QuarterHARTFORD, Conn. - Travelers Corp. said third q

South Africa's foreign trade has shifted sharply away from the United States toward Europe.

Rolls-Royce Motors Ltd. is asking U.S. transportation officials for more time to begin meeting new f

Honda Motor Co. has begun to roll 1987 Accords off an assembly line in Ontario, making the company

Expulsion by Iran NICOSIA, Cyprus - The speaker of Iran's Parliament said his government arr

For the second time in two years, insurance companies and others are trying to persuade the Supreme

Four new locomotives were transported recently from New York to Colombia by Flota Mercante Grancolom

In Massachusetts, a farmer hooked up with a grocery store chain to promote his carrots on television

Union Carbide Corp. announced a $2.5 billion tender offer as the first step in a recapitalization pl

Chesebrough-Pond's Inc. is offering to sell selective, non-strategic business units from its Chemica

Half a dozen Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors began a two-week probe of alleged drug and alc

Soviet Premier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov outlined an ambitious plan to drastically increase nuclear power p

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

Stock traders here ply their craft with all the gentility of sharks in a feeding frenzy - pushing, y

The captain of the tanker OMI Yukon, which exploded and burned in the Pacific Ocean last week with t

Malaysia Still in Agency KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia will remain a member of the Unite

One suspects it must end someday, that one of these days the severe space restrictions at the port o

Continued weakness in corn prices and overall strength in hog prices have pushed the hog-corn ratio

Local investors have paid C$110 million to buy western Canada's largest towboat company, which is op

The big show cause proceeding at the Federal Maritime Commission to make sure all non-vessel-operati

Lykes Vessel to Make Premier New York VisitThe Allison Lykes of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. is

Honda Motor Co. has begun to roll 1987 Accords off an assembly line in Ontario, making the company

PepsiCo May Open Pizza Huts in USSRPepsiCo Inc., which introduced mass market soft drinks to

Both Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. and Lufthansa German Airlines are investing in new all-cargo aircra

The world's major airlines plan to ask their governments to clamp down on terrorism, which has spark

When grizzled veterans of the air cargo wars straggle in for their periodic kaffee-klatsches - there

Foreign competition could damage the nation's service industries, which rangefrom airlines t

Hong Kong's top trade official is pessimistic about the success of a new round of negotiations under

Allied-Signal Inc. plans to expand into the country's aerospace industry by producing aircraft turbo

A Suzuki Motor Co. official said the Japanese automaker will consider whether to buy or lease one of

Domestic auto sales by the Big Three U.S. carmakers remained slow without incentives, dipping sharpl

Coalition to Study Generating CapacityANDOVER, Mass. - A newly formed coalition of business,

A National Labor Relations Board lawyer said a secondary boycott dispute between the International L

Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials expect to order 24 nuclear power reactors to adopt what they

Australian wheat exports should total 14.0 million metric tons in the 1986-87 (October-September) ma

The Soviet Union renewed an offer to sell India nuclear power plants of up to 1,000 megawatts on at

New regulations over the U.S. reinsurance business are likely to crimp the industry's growth prospec

Amid much uncertainty as to the immediate future, the port of Miami welcomed a 3.1 percent gain in c

The Maritime Administration surveyed U.S. shipbuilding costs and, as in past years, concluded that G

If need be, says Joe Newman, he'll go to his death as a voice in the wilderness preaching that an in