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COOLING SYSTEM LEAKCLOSES LITHUANIAN REACTORVILNIUS, Lithuania - Lithuania's huge Ignalina n

Tough luck, kids. A truck carrying 31,000 pounds of Tootsie Rolls crashed on the first day of school

Hong Kong planners are proposing a nearly two-year delay in the building of container terminal 10, o

The Clinton administration will push hard to win new trade negotiating authority from Congress next

The wave of price-fixing allegations - including an admission of guilt by three players Tuesday - co

The next stage of North Korea's cautious re-entry into the world could be access to its airspace, wh

''They're trying to hide him, but they can't.''

The apparent weakening of this month's U.S.-Japan semiconductor trade accord relative to its predece

The nation's two major independent insurance agents trade groups may renew merger discussions, accor

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

SINGAPORE AIR FACILITYKICKS OFF FIRST PHASESINGAPORE - Singapore Airlines Ltd. said its Sing

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The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 250.33 off 0.10 wh

Water policy aimed at saving a small number of juvenile chinook salmon migrating on the Columbia Riv

Aug. 27, 1996RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unle

The investment climate is improving in Haiti, thanks to national economic and political reconstructi

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SCOTT PAPER NAMESERSKINE PRESIDENTMISSISSAUGA, Ontario - Scott Paper Ltd. said Tuesday it ap

Maple Gas Corp., a Dallas energy firm, drew up a new blueprint for future project financing deals in

Premier Insurance Co. of Worcester's proposal to offer 15 percent discounts on personal injury and m

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REGIONAL BLOCSJapan-U.S. Southern Conference. Sept. 4-6. Houston. Contact: Greater Houston P

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The administration of Russia's steel industry is about to be reorganized, but the new minister, Yury

The dollar was little changed Tuesday in the absence of significant U.S. economic news, as dealers p

As the Titanic was departing from Southampton, England on its doomed voyage across the Atlantic in 1

MEXICO REPORTS RISEIN DIRECT INVESTMENTSMEXICO CITY - The Commerce Secretariat (Secofi) reco

LYKES BROS. STEAMSHIP CO.Veronica A. Clark was named project services manager for this Tampa

Democratic governors, gathering here to nominate President Clinton for a second term, touted state e

Colombia will form an elite security corps to protect multinationals in the country and boost confid

The Central American shipping trade is like a hot new Latin American club. The place is getting crow

Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Aug. 27, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

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Wheat is unlikely to become a casualty of the row between Beijing and Washington over U.S. arms sale

Nineteen.Democratic leaders are trying to make the number a reality.That is the minimum numb

JAPAN GRANTS LICENSESTO UNITS OF 19 INSURERSTOKYO - The Japanese Finance Ministry granted li

Malaysia, having spent the last few years trying to clean up its domestic insurance sector, is warni

Poland is the largest single automotive market in Eastern Europe (not including the former Soviet Un

AFRICABOTSWANAThe impressive performance of manufactured exports is a notable feature of Bot