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Knight- Ridder Inc. will reduce employment in its newspaper division over the next 14 months by att

The long-anticipated fourth cut this year in Japan's official discount rate is unlikely to reverse t

Union Mutual Life Insurance Co. said its plan of conversion was approved Thursday at a special meeti

McLean Industries, the parent of United States Lines, said USL continues to hold discussions with it

GENERAL NEWS Knight-Ridder Inc. will cut employment in its newspaper division by attrition a

In a 3-2 vote, the state Public Utilities Commission has voted to cut $330 million from the amount S

Trans World Airlines confirmed Thursday that Jesse Liebman, senior vice president, planning, has res

With 3 million visitors yearly attending 900 conventions or trade shows and more than 26,000 corpora

Taiwan's foreign reserves hit a record US$40 billion, up from US$22.2 billion at the end of last yea

Taiwan's foreign reserves hit a record US$40 billion, up from US$22.2 billion at the end of last yea

Ocean Transport & Trading PLC, the British shipping and distribution group that is the target of a t

An Environmental Protection Agency proposal to expand the test procedure used to identify hazardous

Crude oil prices strengthened to the $15 a barrel mark in late Thursday trading on the New York Merc

South Korea urged North Korea Thursday to cancel a hydroelectric dam project which it claimed poses

Most of the people polled in a recent survey are in favor of extending the state's Transportation Tr

THE SNOW IS SPECIAL IN JAPAN: That's one of the reasons allegedly being offered by the quasi-governm

The local unit of an Australian resource company is buying a major stake in a Canadian gold firm, in

An Association of Southeast Asian Nations common market would bring about greater economic cooperat

U.S.-flag passenger vessel operations, nearly dormant for many years, are staging a revival in the f

National Association of Export Companies. Seminar on pre-shipment inspections followed by luncheon.

The United States imported more than 573,000 head of cattle from Mexico during the first eight month

Air Products and Chemicals Inc. is operating a new specialty/industrial gas facility near Raleigh, N

September U.S. factory orders are expected to rise sharply, by an average of 2.7 percent, from a 1.4

New York and New Jersey have between them added nearly 1.1 million jobs thus far this decade, diggin

Total output of frozen concentrated orange juice in Florida in 1986-87 is expected to exceed last se

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

The abrupt dismissal of Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani as Saudi Arabia's oil minister will "change the ima

Thirteen concerns are seeking licenses to operate as independent ocean freight forwarders from the F

The port of Portland's fiscal year, which ended June 30, was worse than previously announced, and th

Japan's point man on international trade has told his country's leading corporations to import more

The port of Seattle shouldn't raise taxes when the shipping industry is not expanding, a port-watchd

Japanese Airline Set To Purchase 2 DC-10sToa Domestic Airlines Co., Japan's third biggest ca

Sales of new single-family homes in the United States increased 10.6 percent in September to a seaso

Ethyl Corp., the only major U.S. manufacturer of the active ingredient in ibuprofen pain-relievers,

GENERAL NEWSKnight-Ridder Inc. will cut employment in its newspaper division by attrition an

Top Stories Commerce issued its hit list pinpointing areas in the Middle East and North Afri

Economists in the Agriculture Department are taking a look backward at events that have helped depre

Wheat varieties that exhibit both winter and spring characteristics are proving more difficult to de

Rumors that China is considering purchases up to 5.0 million metric tons of U.S. corn in the next ye

A tentative settlement that could end an 11-week-old strike against Brooklyn Union Gas has been reac