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''Because so many opinions have already been written on this abstruse subject, we elect not to consu

Two price indexes, one from the federal government and the other from The Journal of Commerce, confi

Total quality management is fueling an uptick in Armstrong World Industries Inc.'s worldwide sales.<

They are advertised as rugged vehicles that can plow through mud, snow and anything else that gets i

An economist who held a top Bush administration post said he is telling international corporate clie

Cathay Pacific Airways is extending its Hong Kong-Toronto freighter service to Chicago and New York

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

After a long history of contentious relations, railroads and labor are finally beginning to mesh mor

In the wake of the recent Sea Empress oil spill disaster off Wales, the maritime industry is bracing

Thursday Feb. 29, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

LAWMAKER EXPANDSO'LEARY INVESTIGATIONWASHINGTON - The head of a House investigative panel sa

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Feb. 24 '95, - Feb. 29, '96 (a graph)(2)

EX-CONAGRA EXECUTIVE,WILLIAM B. BATES, DIESOMAHA - Retired ConAgra Inc. executive William B.

The financial crisis buffeting Germany's largest shipbuilder, Bremer Vulkan Verbund AG, is reopening

France's unemployment rate inched upward last month to 11.8 percent, a 0.1 percent increase from Dec

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150 per ton lots

Fifteen years ago Watsonville, Calif., was dubbed ''the frozen vegetable capital of the world.''

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The Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are becoming a transit route for drugs and a have

''There are accidents waiting to happen everywhere.''

JAPAN COUNCIL URGESBREAKUP OF NTTTOKYO - A government advisory body recommended Thur

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 248.95 off 0.30

International Petroleum ExchangeFeb. 29, 1996 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

AETNA PAYS EXECUTIVE$4.5 MILLION IN 1995HARTFORD, Conn. - Aetna Life & Casualty Co. paid its

With a new budget year looming, the Insurance Department has cut its Liquidation Bureau's 1996 budge

The direction of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum could be influenced by the European Uni

The U.S. dollar rose Thursday on buying by major commercial banks.Corporations showed less i

It's a safe bet that House transportation leader Rep. Bud Shuster, R-Pa., is not going to accept his

Thursday, Feb. 29, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Getting cargo to West Africa is one thing. Getting cargo into the area's remotest regions is quite a

When President Jiang Zemin announced radical reductions in tariffs in November, grand visions of exp

Feb. 29, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Calls by top Russian officials Thursday for broad trade curbs have turned a flap over frozen chicken

Trade leads supplied by:U.S. Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Trade leads are supplied by:U.S. Department of AgricultureForeign Agricultural Service

A hearing involving the California Department of Corporations against Lloyd's of London was canceled

Japan on Thursday threatened to yank seven hard-won routes from Federal Express Corp. unless the Cli

The House Thursday voted overwhelmingly to end six decades of federal government intrusion into farm

As of Feb. 29, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su