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The head of the European Union has ordered an inquiry into the community's ethical stance on cloning

MILK FUTURES, OPTIONSGET CFTC APPROVALWASHINGTON - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission

The yen rose Thursday as Japanese companies continued to repatriate funds to dress up their balance

The Clinton administration was warned Thursday that it must lobby harder in Congress to save the U.S

Reports that the Russian government is operating on a ''secret budget'' with sharply lower spending

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 242.89 up 1.27

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AIRAIR FRANCE PROMISESSERVICE DESPITE STRIKEPARIS - Air France said it would

LUFTHANSA CARGOWolfgang Schmitz was appointed senior vice president of sales and planning an

Computers and parts were the shining light in Thailand's trade performance in an otherwise gloomy 19

RUBIN: TIME TO PAYUN, WORLD BANK DEBTWASHINGTON - U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin Thurs

Compensation awards announced this week resulting from two airline disasters highlighted the vast di

The ever-widening losses at Physician Corp. of America are endangering a $509 million managed-care m

Thursday Feb. 27, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

Taiwan vowed on Thursday to go ahead with a controversial plan to dump nuclear waste in communist No

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U.S. officials questioned the Japanese government this week about pending legislation that will lift

As of Feb. 27, 1997Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

The Philippines continues to maintain that it does not unfairly block imports of pork or poultry fro

MASSMUTUAL PROFIT SHOWSGAIN FOLLOWING MERGERSPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Massachusetts Mutual Life I

Russia's chief insurance regulator, Valery Sukhov, believes the Russian insurance industry is just m

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,524-$1,595 per ton lo

China goes to market today with a bond issue of around $120 million to help finance the world's larg

Police say a murderer who eluded them for weeks died in the ValuJet crash that killed 110 people in

United Airlines Worldwide Cargo announced Thursday it will start international all-cargo service nex

Airbus Industrie won the China battle, but, in the end, archrival Boeing Co. may win the war.

House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt has issued an intriguing 12-page document, circulated to Demo

BOEING, MCDONNELLSHAREHOLDERS TO MEETSEATTLE - Boeing Co. and McDonnell Douglas Corp. shareh

The Clinton administration has made South America the latest target of its free-market aviation poli

RUSSIAN TRADE UNIONSVOW TO STRIKE IN MARCHMOSCOW - Russian trade unions vowed Thursday to go

The barge worker involved in the 26,000-gallon gasoline spill three weeks ago has been charged with

Companies operating in the United States should find a little neurosis a healthy thing when it comes

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The Port of Liverpool is switching to a new communications network for the local community this week

KANSAS HOUSE ADVANCESOUT-OF-STATE TAX BREAKTOPEKA, Kan. - The House has given tentative appr

California this week introduced legislation that would prohibit insurance companies from using domes

Two Japanese oil companies that tested crude oil from Alaska's North Slope last year said they won't

Flooding forced the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to halt barge shipping Thursday on several portions

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