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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

New York Mercantile Exchange - Sept. 20, 1996Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

With most of the world's easy oil already found, the petroleum industry has been forced to look furt

Sept. 20, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

The European Union is backing away from its commitment to eliminate tariffs on imported semiconducto

Science is gaining control over the nematode, a worm that can cut yields of corn and other major cro

The government should be charging millions of dollars more than it does now for the hydroelectric po

CONFEREES EXPECTEDTO BACK MONETARY PLANBRUSSELS - European Union plans for a common currency

GAMBLING SHIPS MAY RUNAGAIN AT CALIFORNIA PORTSSAN DIEGO - Legislation to bail out Californi

Steamship executives from around the world will sit down in London on Oct. 1 to discuss freight rate

One of the most important series of meetings in recent times of container shipping lines ended Frida

We have seen several generations of containerships over the past four decades. Each, in turn, seemed

Con-Way Transportation Services Inc. is making a foray into the expedited freight market pioneered b

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