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That good feeling you get when you bundle up old newspapers for the church fund-raiser may actually

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Sept. 22, '95 - Sept. 20, '96 (a graph)*

International Petroleum ExchangeSept. 20, 1996 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

FISHING ROW MARS TIESBETWEEN EU, CANADAOTTAWA - Ties between Canada and the European Union r

In the mid-1980s, following a period of underpricing and mounting claims, the market for professiona

A $400,000 study by the state Department of Transportation and a regional planning agency is expecte

The planned merger between Britain's P&O Containers and Nedlloyd Lines of the Netherlands will have

A year ago, many customers and competitors of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. were almost talking about th

Tawian's usually robust life insurance market is in a rare stall, but both local and foreign firms e

Highway lobbyists are stepping up their campaign to channel more federal transportation funding into

TESTIMONY SOUGHTFROM AIRBUS WITNESSMONTREAL - Federal lawyers fighting Brian Mulroney's $50

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

Sept. 20, 1996Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Sept. 20, 1996No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 2

There is an old Russian Church homily that says: Make peace with men, and make war with your sins.

Japan's wastepaper market is in the dumps - literally - driven by a limp economy and low demand for

Some U.S. cargo airlines could see increased business from a government order that would make Alaska

JAPAN ADOPTS US-STYLEGDP CALCULATIONTOKYO - Japan will adopt a new statistics-processing met

For the week ended September 14, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equa

The Federal Reserve will raise interest rates a quarter-point Tuesday, and will make a second increa

Mexico and the four-nation Mercosur common market may conclude a comprehensive tariff-cutting pact w

''They've been trying to sell this notion that Iran is somehow threatening the entire universe.''

Like other newly prosperous cities in Asia, Taipei's back streets include shops selling counterfeit

When Rick Rusch realized in 1988 that the insurance company he headed no longer could rely exclusive

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St. Mary Axe in the heart of the city of London, and Akti Miaouli, which winds along the Piraeus wat

The governing board of Massachusetts' automobile insurance high-risk pool has put off a controversia

HAWAII SEES DROPIN WORKERS COMP RATESHONOLULU - Hawaii businesses will save an estimated $30

MARAD BACKS DESIGNERSOF SPECIAL CRUDE CARRIERWASHINGTON - The Maritime Administration will c

Years of inactivity at the Howland Hook container terminal in Staten Island are due to end today whe

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1001 (Sept. 20, 1996) Previous day - 1003The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Britain's Prince Charles on Thursday launched a major assault on intensive farming methods and the g

After a month of turmoil over Federal Reserve Board intentions, financial analysts remain deeply div

It is not an act of war, but a good trade deal.The Cayman Islands have bought a Russian dest

Donors pledged $7 billion in aid this year to India at a World Bank meeting in Tokyo on Friday, and

Like the banking industry before it, the insurance industry in the United States is in the grip of a

The story headlined ''Leucadia exec is No. 1 in insurance pay survey,'' which appeared on Page 8A on

We all love the Internet, don't we? Yes, but what can it actually do for business?That was t

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