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Congress, after a decade of catch-as-catch-can funding, approved omnibus legislation authorizing con

The trucking industry and the Teamsters union reached agreement on a plan to ease truckers' pension

Japan's crude steel production will drop under 100 million metric tons in 1986 for the first time in

Higher taxes drove third quarter profit at American President Cos. down 34 percent to $9.3 million f

In 1906, Standard Oil Co. of New York, part of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust, looked twoa

Norwegian-owned tankers delivered 527,000 tons of crude oil to South Africa between July 1 and Sept.

World Bank Approves Big Loan for NigeriaThe World Bank announced a loan of $452 million for

Friday, October 17, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. wants Maritime Administration permission for an unusual charter of least 2

LA Port Executive To Retire in JanuaryJack L. Wells, chief deputy director of the port of Lo

A hearing for a Los Angeles police officer and another man charged in an alleged $1 million stolen y

The rival port of Galveston has snared at least 74,000 tons of a 425,000-ton bagged flour shipment t

Felony Charged In Toxic Exposure CaseThe president, vice president and foreman of a Brooklyn

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives, by a vote of 174 to 24, passed legislation designed to pr

The Travelers Insurance Co. is developing a new long-term health-care insurance program designed to

The Panamanian-flag, 20,780-deadweight-ton tanker Five Brooks reportedly was attacked in the Persian

One-third of the corporate directors contacted in a survey said that when they filed claims for dire

Farrell Lines Inc. wants to combine its two subsidized services to the Mediterranean and West Africa

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Connecticut is considering a court appeal of a state attorney general's

Life insurers in Canada do not want their industry to be drawn into the current U.S.-Canadian talks

President Reagan faces a decision in the next week or so on whether to sign into law a dramatic rewr

U.S. steel tubing producers charged Sweden with massive dumping of specialty tubing and asked the U.

Canada's minister of international trade, Pat Carney, will be meeting with industry, union and provi

The Superfund law signed by President Reagan is an artful compromise between the competing interests

A bill providing for sweeping reforms in Argentina's banking code moved closer to congressional appr

BANKINGProspects for Argentina's banking reform bill seem to be looking up, although debate

Nicaragua Trial Starts MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Eugene Hasenfus, the American captured when a re

BANKINGProspects for Argentina's banking reform bill seem to be looking up, although debate

The Chinese, suffering from a decline in foreign investment, are striving to convince Western capita

The drive that the U.S. Customs Service began five years ago to automate its operations is rapidly a

The fastest growing South Atlantic container port in fiscal 1986 was Wilmington, N.C., and now the N

It will be difficult to get agreement from Mexico's commercial creditors on a multibillion dollar lo

Plans by a group of Japanese, U.S. and other foreign companies to establish an international telecom

Transystems Inc. admits it didn't have much choice when one of the motor carrier's biggest clients a

Commercial Union Assurance Cos. of Boston faces a possible pay-out of more than $23 million for a pe

A former government highway official criticized public and private transportation groups for ignorin

Growing doubts over the possibility of another Federal Reserve discount ratecut soon and mix

The Federal Aviation Administration has denied a newspaper report that planes flying over northern I

Shipowners will be reviewing the success of their lobbying campaign against proposed U.S. fiscal cha