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The Connecticut Maritime Association is using the Internet to have a conference before its annual co

Despite the Russian Parliament's passage of a 1997 budget, the Russian government is operating on a

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Canadian port officials are cringing as backlogs in grain ship loadings force the Canadian Wheat Boa

Ship lines want importers to pay them more to move their freight from Asia to the West Coast. But wi

A truck drivers' strike in Spain is forcing automakers to slam on the brakes at their assembly plant

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China's new national oil company is causing some confusion both inside and outside the country, with

El Salvador will auction off the rights to distribute power later this year and expects the effort t

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AN DERINGER INC.Shane Jaffary was appointed field sales and logistics manager in Calgary, Al

The government will make it easier for small companies harmed by the oil slick spilled from a wrecke

AFL-CIO President John Sweeney recently lobbied the Clinton administration not to open the U.S. bord

The French port city of Marseilles wants to develop a maritime services center to support the local

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A Camden County court ordered Commercial Union Insurance Co. to reimburse a former bathtub manufactu

The California Insurance Department is investigating conflict of interest allegations against San Fr

Britons wishing to take out new life insurance policies will have to reveal the results of genetic t

CONSECO REPORTS JUMPIN INCOME FROM YEAR AGOCARMEL, Ind. - Conseco Inc. reported a jump in it

THE AMERICAN COLLEGEMichael Delaney has joined the faculty of the Bryn Mawr, Pa., college as

Cargo airlines are asking the Federal Aviation Administration for a 120-day reprieve before the agen

As of Feb. 19, 1997Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

Deng Xiaoping, who led China through most of the last quarter-century and was instrumental in transf

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The United States posted a $114.2 billion international trade deficit in 1996, the highest in eight

The United States will give diplomacy at the highest level a chance to work before touching off a ma

Wednesday, Feb. 19, 1997Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

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

The U.S. dollar rose above 1.69 Deutsche marks and 124 yen Wednesday despite a wider U.S. trade gap.

The United States on Tuesday will ask the dispute settlement body of the World Trade Organization to

The long-running U.S.-European dispute over trade with Cuba will come to a head today in Geneva when

Rampant piracy of U.S. entertainment and intellectual products in Russia, Greece and Paraguay should

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Feb. 26, 1996, - Feb. 19, 1997, (a graph)

AFL-CIO President John Sweeney will travel to Japan in April to pressure the New Otani Hotel to stop

(Census basis - in millions of dollars)DECEMBER 1996 NOVEMBER 1996 CUMULATIVE

Democratic leaders say it is unlikely Congress will expand the North American Free Trade Agreement t

Foreign investment in the United States employs 4.9 million Americans, 5 percent of the U.S. work fo