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Ignoring the plight in the Pacific Rim could only cripple future U.S. pork trade prospects, accordin

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IBM makes great commercials. The one I particularly like has a youngster showing an older company ow

OVERVIEWNew Zealand's laboratory and science equipment market is estimated at US$45 million

WORLD BANK, FRANCE FIGHTOVER AFRICA COTTON REFORMDAKAR, Senegal - The French foreign aid dep

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Philippine Airlines said Tuesday it is near bankruptcy after a five-day strike by pilots, which crip

FROM THE UNITED STATES-CANADAITALY, SPAIN, PORTUGAL AND GREECE. June 15-26. The Internationa

With competition heating up in the international air-freight business, the market leader - Germany's

A threatened weeklong strike by French train drivers on the eve of World Cup soccer matches has not

A towboat pilots' strike that once threatened shipping on critical inland waterways is due to end Au

With only 18 months remaining until Panama raises its flag over the Panama Canal, the Perez Balladar

Transoceanic Shipping Co. received the International Standards Organization 9002 award for its quali

PLAN OFFERS NEW YORKMORE FUNDS FOR DREDGINGNEW YORK - Dredging funds to deepen the major cha

The trade show is scheduled to end at 4. The carpenters who disassemble your boothand pack your ship

Orient Overseas Container Line said it appointed Tasmanian Cargo Services Pty Ltd. as its agent in T

890 (June 9, 1998) Previous day - 893The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lond

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June 9, 1998Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

ONGOINGSeamen's Church Institute. New York. Water Street Gallery exhibits paintings by 20 ma

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Indonesia's top trade union leader called Monday for tough conditions to accompany any future aid by

South Korea's President Kim Dae-jung began the formal portion of his official visit to the United St

ANALYSTS: HONG KONG-USDOLLAR PEG COULD BREAKLONDON - With the Japanese yen hitting new lows,

The nation's space industries are launching a lobbying counteroffensive to try to persuade Congress

STATE FARM MAKESREFUND TO POLICYHOLDERSBLOOMINGTON, Ill. - State Farm Mutual Automobile Insu

Insurance companies and the brokers, agents and industry providers doing business with them constant

P/C SECTOR SAW PROFITSLIDE 7.1 PERCENT IN QUARTERNEW YORK - The U.S. property/casualty insur

The Asian financial crisis is a daunting, but temporary, setback for U.S. entertainment companies in

Industry sources told The Journal of Commerce that John Mabee, the former head of Golden Eagle Insur

OFFERS TO BUY* MARBLE. One of our clients is interested in Quarella man-made marble, of good

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JAPANESE INSURERS TOBOOST BOND INVESTMENTSTOKYO - Japan's largest life insurers are planning

RISK CAPITAL HOLDINGS INC.Mindy Pollack has joined the firm's Risk Capital Reinsurance subsi

Assicurazioni Generali SpA, Italy's largest insurance company, has begun taking applications for pay

Small employers in New Jersey now can avail themselves of the same kind of loss-control strategies t

Employees are a lot less resistant to change now than they've been in the past, according to a Watso

In less then a week, Roberto Escalante will swap his business suit for a pilot's uniform, climb into

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