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While they fight to keep Congress from enacting laws to clean up the causes of acid rain, the nation

The signing of a definitive agreement was announced whereby National Distillers and Chemical Corp. w

When Ezunial Burts was executive assistant to Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, he applied basic manage

Section C of the Inter-American Freight Conference announced that a 6 percent bunker surcharge on ca

Cousins Petter Sundt and Morten Bergesen have 11 days in which to take steps to retain family contro

The idea for a harmonized system of tariff classification that crosses international boundaries was

Feuders over the port of Portland's aborted coal terminal project are expected to resume their court

Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. is launching a special early retirement program to apply to eligible s

The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad will receive access to more than2,000 miles of ad

Volatile markets, unstable financial conditions and fluctuating economic patterns often wreak havoc

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

The following are the results of Monday's St. Louis Merchants Exchange call session for barge freigh

A quirk in government figures understated the U.S. trade deficit in June and July by nearly $3 billi

Providing more hope than hard facts, some tourist industry specialists said business should improve

The French government is shifting gears once again in an effort to produce results satisfying to the

Texaco Discovers Gas At Well in OklahomaTexaco has completed a natural gas discovery well on

Occidental Petroleum Corp and Church & Dwight Co. Inc. have signed a letter of intent to form a part

Starting Nov. 1, about 1.7 million Blue Cross and Blue Shield subscribers in New Jersey will face st

Mack Employees Accept Early RetirementALLENTOWN, Pa. - Mack Trucks Inc. said 700 of its empl

Stock market participants are expected to take a new look at the fundamentals this week, now that th

Japan's Toa Inaugurates Overseas Charter RouteJapan's Toa Domestic Airlines inaugurated over

Helped by lower oil costs and increased inflows from the European Community, Greece had a $157 milli

Officials of Korea Trade Promotion Corp., the organizer of the biennial Seoul International Trade Fa

After a period of relative optimism, Australia's barley marketing outlook has been clouded by furthe

Last year government finance officials dropped a bombshell on India's shipping industry by proposing

BASF Set To ExpandIts FacilitiesCHARLOTTE, N.C. - BASF Corp. is building a second pr

A Soviet newspaper has revealed that a fire and explosion at a coal-fired power plant caused energy

The improper reinstallation of racks in a spent fuel pool at Diablo Canyon atomic power plant violat

Independent stevedores are impatient for a ruling on their challenge of the ''sub scription agreemen

The House Friday stripped away the rights of states to set their own safety standards for pesticides

The U.S. dollar was mixed Friday in typically quiet pre-weekend trading. Analysts said the d

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

Frontier Insurance Group Inc. is scheduled to make its initial public offering this week to raise be

Tunisian Chamber Meets TUNIS, Tunisia - The Tunisian Chamber of Deputies meets today to cons

It's all over except the rhetoric on the tax reform bill, but there will be plenty of that over the

Officials on Friday gave the first breakdown of the costs of cleaning up after the Chernobyl acciden

Energy and Mines Minister Alfredo del Mazo and his Venezuelan counterpart, Arturo Hernandez Grisanti

The Federal Aviation Administration will force the airlines to equip their planes with collision avo

Two financially strong airlines join the competition for trans-Pacific travelers and cargo with the

Railroads and motor carriers are grappling with rising insurance liability rates that have both indu