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WORKERS EXPOSEDTO 'TRACE' RADIATIONWISCASSET, Maine - Eight workers who were exposed to ''tr

CHINA LIFTS EMBARGOOF US POULTRYSPRINGDALE, Ark. - China has dropped its embargo of U.S.-pro

Amertranz Worldwide Holding Corp. reported a net loss of $1.5 million in its first fiscal quarter en

Nov. 8, 1996RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unlea

A labor-environmental coalition organized by the Teamsters Union is running a series of advertisemen

Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom has decided to build a $1 billion pipeline across the Black Sea to Tur

For the week ended November 2, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equale

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100%) is as follows

November 8: 1477

With the United States and Europe on the verge of a breakthrough in long-delayed talks to liberalize

A seven-year, $4.75 million study into driver fatigue is due to finally be released this month, abou

Amid a swirl of contradictory reports from quasi-official sources on both sides of the Taiwan Strait

California voters in 1988 approved Proposition 103, mandating that insurance companies roll back rat

In the rush to accumulate overseas investment - which it has at a record pace - China frequently lef

Congress is likely to become more involved in a U.S. agreement to provide nuclear technology to Nort

Nov. 8, 1996Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

RUSSIAN EXPORTS UP,TRADE BALANCE POSITIVEMOSCOW - Russia had a positive trade balance of $28

The European Union's Court of Justice will rule today whether Britain must comply with a regulation

U.S. and British negotiators hope to resume formal discussions on an ''open-skies'' aviation agreeme

Nov. 8, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

With the price tag in the bitter battle for Conrail Inc. now in the rarefied atmosphere of $10 billi

John Terpstra, executive director of the Port of Tacoma, Wash., for the past eight years, is suddenl

Nov. 8, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

Friday Nov. 8, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

''I held in my hands the potential for the most cataclysmic event of the insurance world.''

MOTOROLA OFFER HASSOME STRINGS ATTACHEDKIEV, Ukraine - The U.S. communications firm Motorola

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

CHEVRON AGREES TO SETTLEBIAS SUIT FOR $8.5 MILLIONSAN FRANCISCO - Chevron Corp. has agreed t

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,300-$1,500 per ton lo

As of Nov. 8, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from sup

NEW AGREEMENT REACHEDON MARITIME DUMPINGLONDON - A new agreement designed to stop the dumpin

As of Oct. 31, 1996Parallel Market Foreign Exchange Rates are based on unofficial, non-docum

A Nigerian airliner carrying 141 people from the country's oil-producing center crashed en route to

The number of ocean shipping lines trying to enter the government's new $2 million-a-ship operating

U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin will continue to speak out in favor of a strong dollar, despite

KODAK ALLEGES WORKERSSTOLE TRADE SECRETSROCHESTER, N.Y. - Eastman Kodak Co. accused two long

It might seem that the future of the Port of Astoria, Ore., is as gloomy as the winter storms alread

The National Transportation Safety Board wants to know why the Atlanta-based Colonial Pipeline Co. c

Growing demand for chemicals derived from coconuts is spurring rapid expansion of the industry.<

Representatives of the government of Peru and its bank advisory committee Friday signed the agreemen