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India needs curbs to prevent economic development from inflicting serious damage to the environment,

After Uneximbank's surprise decision to declare itself winner of the state's 38 percent shares in No

The European Union has asked Washington to reconsider how it intends drafting new U.S. laws incorpor

CENTRAL AMERICA REJECTSTRADE PACT WITH TAIWANTAIPEI - Taiwan admitted for the first time Wed

CLINTON BACKS EXTENSIONOF ETHANOL TAX BREAKWASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said

As of Aug. 6, 1997Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from sup

Western confectioners are looking to tap the potentially huge Russian chocolate market by setting up

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 243.60 off 1.66

Aug. 6, 1997RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unlea

Aug. 6, 1997Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

Indonesia is shelving plans for a nuclear power plant and will instead generate the needed electrici

US-JAPAN AIR TALKSINCH TOWARD TREATYWASHINGTON - U.S. and Japanese negotiators ended the fir

International Petroleum ExchangeAug. 6, 1997 *Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

ONGOINGIntroduction to Logistics Sales. Various dates and locations. Two-day seminars to tea

New York Mercantile Exchange - Aug. 5, 1997Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High Lo

This week, the packages stopped moving at United Parcel Service when more than 185,000 Teamsters hit

Aug. 6, 1997Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

Kenyan air traffic controllers Wednesday ignored a government order to resume work, saying they woul

Just in time is now just do your best.As the United Parcel Service strike continues taking i

Solidarity among Teamsters strikers at United Parcel Service reportedly was starting to fray around

The Teamsters vowed Wednesday to hobble UPS' European activities as the strike by almost 190,000 uni

Day three of the nationwide strike against UPS found many U.S. manufacturers crossing their fingers

EQUITABLE COS.Douglas Menkes has joined the company's Equitable Life Assurance Society of th

The Medicare and Medicaid health-care programs for the elderly and poor have been very, very profita

India has its first insurance regulator, it was announced Wednesday, but foreign companies waiting f

A construction worker injured on the job has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a

SELECTIVE INSURANCE HADSTRONG SECOND QUARTERBRANCHVILLE, N.J. - Selective Insurance Group In

The Clinton administration faces a major test of its sanctions policy. On Wednesday, a Canadian comp

President Clinton Wednesday said obtaining new trade negotiating authority from Congress would be on

Wednesday, Aug. 6, 1997Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by Reuter Money Service, are selling rates among

United Parcel Services' competitors are learning how to just say no to new business.It's a d

A spectacular collapse in the British pound diverted attention from the strong dollar Wednesday, whi

The United States and Japan are headed for a second face-to-face showdown this year in a maritime di

NATURAL GAS CLEARINGHOUSENatural Gas Clearinghouse - Posted prices for Aug. 1997 (see Note 1

U.S. Secretary of Commerce William Daley said that Canada and the United States would probably not r

The hard bargaining between Russia and Chechnya has shifted this week from their deadlock over oil t

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Aug. 9, 1996 - Aug. 6, 1997 (a graph)* A

Two Japanese companies and a U.S. firm have won contracts in Saudi Arabia to build three petrochemic

CHINA CRACKS DOWNON CROOKED ACCOUNTANTSBEIJING - A three-month crackdown on crooked accounta