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With so much business at stake, and growing pressure from textile customers in richer nations to ena

Karaked Puangchampi was 22 and working as a machine cleaner at a textile factory when she fell serio

APEC BUSINESS GROUPSTRESSES BORDER FLOWSSEATTLE - Business leaders said an 18-nation Asia-Pa

SHIPSFELIXSTOWE TO HIREMORE DOCKWORKERSFELIXSTOWE, Britain - The Port of Felixstowe

On the campaign trail, speeches and plane rides can quickly become a blur, both for the candidates a

Millon Air, the Miami-based operator of the cargo plane that crashed in Ecuador at the cost of dozen

A new public-private partnership is about to take over Florida's economic development and internatio

The Florida Export Finance Corp. wants to join the $100 million club.Now that the U.S. Expor

ALBION MANAGEMENTRESOURCES INC.Randall C. Houston was appointed executive vice president of

In a year that has seen many top retailers tarred in headlines for exploiting underpaid workers and

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 244.92 up 1.09 wh

U.S. crude petroleum inventories rose 5.7 million barrels in the week ended Oct. 18, compared with t

World sugar traders are reasonably concerned that weekend damage to Cuba's sugar crop will affect th

From Washington, D.C., to Washington state, forest products companies and trade groups are looking t

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DESPITE REVENUE DROP,BNSF HAS GOOD QUARTERBurlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. reported improv

MITSUI O.S.K. LINES(AMERICA) INC.James L. Boyer was named Mid-Atlantic district sales manage

The risk of criminal charges against seafarers involved in an accident that causes pollution in U.S.

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 243.83 up 0.48 whi

Tuesday Oct. 22, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

The U.S. dollar declined slightly against the Deutsche mark and was unchanged against the Japanese y

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Inc.'s two railroads asked a federal appeals court to block the tiny Te

AFRICASub-SaharaThe U.N. Industrial Development Organization this month rolls out its Allian

ODYSSEY REINSURANCE CORP.Bryan S. Reid III is joining the New York-based reinsurer Oct. 25 a

Oct. 22, 1996Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

CARGOLUX TO RECEIVEFREIGHTER A YEAR EARLYLUXEMBOURG - Cargolux and Boeing Commercial Airplan

Canada's inflation remained tame in September as the unadjusted consumer price index rose 0.1 percen

REGIONAL BLOCSMiddle East Economic Development and Middle East Peace: Inseparable. Oct. 29.

CABLE & WIRELESS PLANSTO MERGE PHONE BUSINESSLONDON - Cable & Wireless PLC plans to combine

One of the nation's biggest insurance companies said it will close its reinsurance operations, furth

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateCchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

Oct. 22, 1996RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unle

Oct. 22, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

The United States has proposed to permit more foreign companies to bid for lucrative federal contrac

Colombia has formally filed an anti-dumping suit against certain types of textile imports from Taiwa

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Raytheon Co. is helping Lebanon rebuild air transport infrastructure seriously damaged by years of c

Like dueling banjo players, Bill Clinton and Bob Dole are making competing campaign stops in Alabama

This village tucked into the soft hills of Maryland's Eastern Shore offers fractured moments.

It was only a matter of time before lawsuits hit the courthouse trying to assign blame for the explo