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American President Lines Ltd. apparently raised a troubling issue for the Mari time Administration w

Union Pacific Ratings Placed on CreditWatchStandard & Poor's Corp. said Union Pacific Corp.'

The compromise tax-overhaul plan that the House will vote on next week is laced with hundreds of spe

West Germans Seek To Protect Their BeerSAARBRUECKEN, West Germany - If the Common Market for

Former BofA Director Prefers Small CompanyCharles Schwab says he quit Bank of America's boar

The Bank of Boston is holding talks on purchase of a government-run bank in the Philippines under th

The U.S. dairy production outlook for 1987 is "uncertain" despite a continuing production decrease a

The following table lists the spot coal contracts signed between the Tennessee Valley Authority and

The farm export picture, gloomy after three straight months of deficits, has at least one bright spo

Senate majority leader Robert Dole, R-Kan., said he was awaiting agreement among major commodity gro

Legislation imposing a settlement in the bitter dispute between rail labor and the Maine Central and

Thursday, September 18, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanad

Is William F. Connell or Albert L. Bossier head of Avondale Industries Inc. ? Is the company's headq

The U.S. economy grew at a minuscule annual rate of 0.6 percent from April through June, the worst p

U.S. imports of crude oil and refined products hit the highest level in six years last month because

Southern California Edison Co. has joined with at least 13 other utilities extending from Oregon to

The new tax bill awaiting final passage in Congress makes vast changes in pension law without decid

It might sound like carrying coal to Newcastle - or oil to the Persian Gulf - but the recent shipmen

West Germans Seek To Protect Their BeerSAARBRUECKEN, West Germany - If the Common Market for

The Kvaerner group, together with a Norwegian consortium, has assembled the world's largest fleet of

CSX Opens Terminal In Jacksonville, Fla.JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - CSX Transportation has opened i

The stock market tiptoed toward today's triple witching hour Thursday with prices fluctuating nervou

A commercial salvage effort was under way Thursday to clean up the residue of 70,000 gallons of gaso

With approval of a $15,000 feasibility study, the port of Houston has moved closer to development of

Burlington Northern Railroad is selling one of its branch lines to a private low-cost railroad that

Puerto Rican businessmen are studying just over 100 proposed ventures for production sharing with en

GENERAL NEWSThe U.S. economy grew at a minuscule annual rate of 0.6 percent from April throu

Provision Approved MANILA, Philippines - A panel drafting a new constitution approved a prov

Brazil decided Wednesday to free the importation of beef, pork and fish through the end of 1987 and

Foster Wheeler Gets Waste Plant ContractLIVINGSTON, N.J. - Foster Wheeler Passaic Inc., a un

Gasoline inventories continued to run counter to normal seasonal trends and rose for the fourth con

Polysar AcquiresBusinessLEOMINSTER, Mass. - The plastics division of Polysar Inc. an

Short-covering Lifts Spot Crude in EuropeCrude oil prices firmed on the Northwest European s

Imperial Chemical Industries PLC announced that it will merge four of its mainstream chemical busine

Squibb Mark, the consumer products division of Squibb United States, Thursday introduced Proto-Chol

Department of Transportation staffers proposed several changes in government truck safety. T

The Department of Transportation gave tentative approval to Texas Air Corp.'s new plan to purchase E

Continental Airlines Inc. received new temporary authority to provide jet service between Denver and

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

Marine underwriters were told Thursday they face a new type of risk owing to the greatly increased a