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A clever scheme for recycling Norway's first unneeded oil platform prompted a French company to drop

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American International Group and several other major insurance companies lost in court in their atte

BAVARIAN RE RECEIVES S&P'S TOP RATINGLONDON - Standard & Poor's gave its highest rat

Family fights can drive you crazy. And if family members are also your business partners, they can m

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines outlined in a recent report its list of the shipping industry's most significant

The state insurance regulator is taking her fight with medical insurers to the Legislature, pushing

Lloyd's of London hopes to put its recent troubles behind it in 1996 and set the 300-year-old insura

Optimism has paid off for South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Co. in the shape of a mammoth dry d

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Natural gas will be far cheaper in 2010 than it is today, a federal agency predicted. The En

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SHELL OFFSHORE INC. TO BUY BENTON UNITNEW YORK - Benton Oil & Gas Co. has signed a l

Leaders of the 15-member European Union and 10 East Asian countries will discuss expanding trade and

Germany, the self-styled paragon of European financial virtue, failed to meet the entry grade for Eu

The United Arab Emirates, a key OPEC member, earned nearly US$1 billion in extra oil revenue in 1995

Costa Ricans across the board cheered the recent Clinton administration decision not to impose trade

China's graft busters hailed unprecedented successes in 1995 and said new tough action in 1996 would

SHARP PLANS TO BUILD CHIP PLANT IN HIROSHIMATOKYO - Sharp Corp., one of Japan's top

REGIONAL BLOCS Surfing the Global Net From Caribbean Shores. Feb. 26-27. Barbados. C

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NORTHEAST UTILITIES LAYS OFF 100BERLIN, Conn. - Northeast Utilities said it laid off

ConAgra Inc. said it plans to sell parts of a malting business two months after spending $295 millio

U.S. textile mills are likely to import around 100,000 bales of cotton in 1995-96, with commitments

A California-based oil company has agreed to pay Arizona $250,000 for failing to clean up a Phoenix

DEAL SIGNED TO ENTOMB ESTONIA WRECK, VICTIMSSTOCKHOLM - Despite protests from victim

Kirby Corp., a Houston tanker operator, has asked a federal court here to temporarily block the Mari

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Call it Glass-Steagall North. Using arguments eerily reminiscent of the stalled U.S. debate

Supporters responded enthusiastically as Pat Buchanan cranked up his guerrilla campaign for the pres

Fore Way Express Inc., a Wausau, Wis., regional less-than-truckload carrier, ceased operations last

Freightliner Corp. finished 1995 as the leading maker of heavy trucks for the fourth consecutive yea

Habla Espanol? Not if you're a bilingual U.S. Customs inspector working in Miami and you hav

INTERMODAL ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA (Greenbelt, Md.) - Thomas L. Hardin, president of Hub Group

The law that closed the ICC has spurred fears that freight rates may rise in the U.S. coastal trades

Boeing Co.'s engineers and technical workers will be voting by mail over the next week on a pair of

Swift Transportation Co. reported improved revenue but reduced profit in the fourth quarter, a resul

PILOTS SAY FAA RULE CONTAINS SERIOUS FLAWSWASHINGTON - A technical working group of