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The official overseeing cleanup operations at the Chernobyl nuclear plant said two of the four react

Island Creek Acquires Laurel Run Mining Co.LEXINGTON, Ky. - Island Creek Corp. said it acqui

Columnist Abigail Van Buren is appealing to Congress not for advice, but to urge it to change the So

The Massachusetts attorney general department says it may institute antitrust objections to the prop

The Panamanian maritime authority hopes to forge closer ties with China on licensing and other matte

The first Taiwan-built chemical carrier, the 30,000-ton Formosa 3, is on its maiden voyage to the Un

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK INDIA - The Export-Import Bank announced another win in its efforts to be

Take a swig of your favorite fruit punch, slurp some steamy canned vegetable beef soup or chomp on

The European Community foreign ministers delayed formal approval of a farm trade agreement with the

Steel production rose to 1.283 million tons in the week ended Sept. 13, a 1.7 percent increase from

The U.S. dollar was sharply higher against the yen Tuesday and slightly higher against other major c

The port of Everett is pursuing its own ambitious plan for harbor development now that the Navy appe

GENERAL NEWSIndustrial production rose in August but is still down from the start of 1986. P

Pennwalt Corp. announced the acquisition of Desarrolo Quimica Industrial S.A. (Dequisa), a dithiocar

Tuesday, September 16, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Video Presentation Set On Port of Long BeachLONG BEACH, Calif. - The premiere showing of a t

The great teak forests are decimated, once-shimmering beaches are awash in trash and angular concret

Attorneys for a fired FBI agent accused of lying during an investigation of Teamsters President Jack

India will write off accumulated losses of public units administered by the newly created Departmen

U.S. agricultural exports to South Asia are expected to drop 20 percent in fiscal 1987 to $414 milli

Singapore wants to become a major oil trading, distribution and storage center in southeast Asia, Ed

China and Pakistan signed an agreement for extensive cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear ener

Norway will keep its promise to cut back North Sea crude oil production only if OPEC agrees to a per

Eight years after one of the world's largest oil spills from a tanker, lawyers, fishermen and mayors

A Conference Board analysis of the tax reform bill claims tax cuts in the bill would support imports

Legislation imposing the recommendations of a presidential emergency board affecting the Maine Centr

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

Arnold Chait is still refusing to let Ambassador Insurance Co. die. Vermont Insurance Commis

American Re-Insurance Corp. is moving its headquarters to Princeton, N.J., after 58 years in New Yor

Japan's financially ailing Yamashita-Shinnihon Steamship Co., one of the country's six largest shipp

The first U.S. Navy warship to be armed with the new MK41 Vertical Launching (missile) System, the U

Hershey Foods Corp. and Dietrich Corp. announced that they have entered into a purchase and sale ag

Himont USA Raises PricesOf PolymersHimont U.S.A. Inc. is raising its price of copoly

A South Korean firm completed building work on Saudi Arabia's first plant for polyvinyl chloride and

Japan will transfer more technology to Taiwan and, taking advantage of the stronger yen, increase it

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

The average freight shipment hauled by trucking companies is worth much less a pound than many cargo

Fuji Xerox Corp. of Japan, a joint venture between Tokyo-based Fuji Photo Film Co. and a London subs

Exports and re-exports to China regained their upward momentum in July after a dip caused by tighter

Italy's wholesale prices in July fell 0.8 percent from the previous month, but declined by only 2.2