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The U.S. lawyers suing seven insurers over Holocaust life insurance policies Thursday tried to stop

While United Parcel Service is the immediate victim of the current Teamsters strike, other unionized

The British pound fell to a 10-month low of $1.5783 Thursday, extending Wednesday's crash, despite n

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Norfolk Southern Corp. and the American Association of Port Authorities have thrown their weight beh

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A multicommodity bulk terminal is planned for the Jackson County Port Authority's former grain eleva

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A Customs Service plan to allow under-$2,000 shipments into the country with minimal documentation h

Federal regulators Thursday approved rules aimed at slashing the price of overseas phone calls and s

A Fine Air Inc. DC-8 crashed in a ball of flames on takeoff Thursday near Miami International Airpor

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

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Your hip is in the mail.The Teamsters strike against UPS, which entered its fourth day Thurs

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A compromise agreement between Western oil majors and the Nigerian government on the disputed fundin

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The United States, despite its generally favorable economic prospects, will incur rising foreign tra

One year after the new U.S.-Japan trade agreement, foreign market share for computer chips in Japan

Aug. 7, 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

Philippine leftist groups said Thurday a nationwide transport strike to protest increased fuel price

Mersey Docks and Harbour Co. reported a 63 percent surge in first-half pretax profit Thursday as sha

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Nearly a month after the end of a strike by flight attendants, British Airways is still canceling do

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 242.81 off 0.79

Senior U.S. government officials visiting Japan for aviation talks took time out Thursday to urge th

Europe is backing off efforts to challenge U.S. importing regulations that restrict European shipmen

Ask your neighborhood manufacturer or distributor about the economy, and they'll tell you it's doing

The teensy, tiny centimeter is threatening to create trans-Atlantic trade havoc in everything from c

American mega-mall developers, lured by visions of well-heeled consumers with a yen for one-stop sho

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When the Baltimore Orioles needed a flight home during Major League Baseball's All-Star weekend t

IRAQ WON'T RENEWSHELL, BP CONTRACTSLONDON - Anglo-Dutch Shell and British Petroleum PLC said

Although coffee prices have climbed lately on beliefs that supplies of mild arabica beans are tight,

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'We're not going to just pick people off the streets.'

OFFERS TO BUY* OUTDATED COMPUTERS. Old (outdated) computers (PCS, PS/2S), their elements, sp

Frontier Insurance Group Inc. saw its second-quarter net income rise, to $15.4 million from $9.8 mil