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Despite tough new laws, an older drinking age and aggressive campaigns to keep drunks off the roads,

Pa. House Amends Senate's Seat Belt LawHARRISBURG, Pa. - A 5 percent automobile rate rollbac

Major U.S. railroads won their bid for Supreme Court review of a lower court ruling that would allow

ICOT Corp. Monday announced that it has signed an agreement with International Business Machines Cor

A sharp drop in optimism among business executives in oil-producing states has depressed business ex

The 15,965-deadweight-ton Cypriot-flag bulk carrier Niocol was refloated Oct. 5 after stranding in L

People Express Airlines Inc., which took in more 750,000 bookings during its recent half-price promo

Union Carbide Corp. and GAF Corp. announced the signing of two long-term agreements providing for th

Up to 1.25 million tons of Pennsylvania and West Virginia coal bound for U.S. and Canadian consumers

Catalina Cruises Strike Settled With Pay CutAVALON, Calif. - Deckhands and captains for Cata

Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad pleaded with visiting U.S. business leaders to take advan

Expo '86 reached its attendance goal of 20 million visitors Saturday morning, with 10 days to spare

The aerospace industry's outlook for the coming decade is bleak, withshrinking profits and w

The Maritime Administration agreed to sell the twin-screw tug Ocean Star to Weeks Stevedoring Co. In

A wrong-way driver smashed his car head-on into another car on Interstate 5 in western Fresno County

Washington may restrict opportunities for Japanese construction firms in the United States if U.S. c

Only about 16 percent of Americans expect to pay lower taxes as a result of the new tax reform legis

Grain traffic is expected to resume later this week at Canada's largest grain port following a tenta

GENERAL NEWS The Supreme Court opened its new term by placing on its agenda interstate taxat

Whining by oil rigs along Gabon's continental plateau has become increasingly rare as Western oil fi

Spain has forecast its 1986-87 citrus production to reach about 3.790 million metric tons, an increa

Mylan Laboratories Inc., a leading independent generic drug manufacturer, announced it will build a

In the face of a world glut of many chemical products, Indonesia is forging ahead with big plans to

Trucking interests are pushing for adoption of new rules aimed at permitting larger vehicles to oper

Although the South African government has a wide range of economic weapons to use against neighborin

The Supreme Court refused to involve itself in major product liability cases including those involvi

A concert violinist was indicted in a botched fire insurance scheme that left two men severely injur

MARITIME ZIM-AMERICAN ISRAELI SHIPPING CO. (New York) - Louis Ferro was promoted to assistan

The Canadian National Railway offered to give Guilford Transportation Industries access to Chicago i

The Asia North America Eastbound Rate Agreement and the TransPacific Westbound Rate Agreement announ

The chief shipping executive in China thinks that container traffic moving through the West Coast wi

Oil ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries were divided on whether to extend

Uncertainties related to tax reform continue to haunt the stock market, according to David D. Hale,

Hong Kong's new unified stock market opened Monday following speeches by senior figures in the indus

Hirohisa Kinoshita, a foreman at Mazda Motor Corp.'s giant car assembly plant here, grimaced with di

Hong Kong's local electric utility, China Light & Power Co. Ltd., concluded a deal to supply electri

Top Stories The new wave of economic freedom could be a boon or bane for New Zealand as the

The following index charts weekly changes in motor carrier tonnage originatingfrom 49 produc

The number of failed insurance companies in Texas has reached a record high, and regulators say it m

Several hundred AIDS victims bought life insurance either knowing or suspecting they had the deadly