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Gene Giacumbo, who was elected international vice president of the Teamsters in 1991 on the slate of

The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. often saves money by encouraging loss- prevention in the handling

In a bid to improve its high-tech qualifications, Pakistan will invite international tenders to set

When Nigeria's foreign minister, Tom Ikimi, visited The Journal of Commerce in July as part of an ef

Italian industrial sales surged at an annual rate of 17.6 percent in August and new orders advanced

Federal Express Corp. and the Air Line Pilots Association are set to return to the negotiatingtable

1748 (Nov. 17, 1995) Previous day - 1730 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Hong Kong's interim legislature, to be installed by China when it recovers the British colony in 199

SIDE PACT HOLDING UP CAR-HAUL AGREEMENTWASHINGTON - Teamsters ratified a new pact fo

Worldwide insurance broker Marsh & McLennan Inc., said it opened an office inOslo. T

I had my first glimpse of Maurice Greenberg, chairman and chief executive officer of insurance behem

WASHINGTON WITHDRAWS FINE AGAINST BLUE CROSSOLYMPIA, Wash. - Insurance Commissioner Deborah

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Thursday Nov. 16, 1995 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

A few days after Arpac LP opened its first international office in Mexico City, the Mexican peso nos

TEXTILE FIBER EXPORTS DOWN 71 PERCENT IN CHINABEIJING - China said it exported 35,70

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150per ton lots &

The chief of the International Labor Organization has urged the United States to put an end to its a

All of the Transportation Department's employees were due back at their desks Thursday morning and o

The U.S. dollar rose Thursday in part on a rally in the U.S. stock and bond markets, and in part due

AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LIFE INSURANCE (Washington) - John G. Turner, chairman and chief executive of Re

Gov. William Weld's plan to build a double-stack rail system in Massachusettswent back into

Federal agents raided a second cotton merchant in Memphis in a widening investigation of the cotton

GLOSSARY AR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

Asia-Pacific nations resolved their two biggest differences Thursday - on preferential trade treatme

A proposed bill to increase taxes paid by property/casualty insurers by 5 percent to fund the constr

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NIPPON OIL REFINERY TO RESTART CRUDE UNITTOKYO - Nippon Petroleum Refining Co., a re

Three railroads are discussing an initiative to form a second domestic container pool as a further i

Mexico is giving serious consideration to requests by its truckers that a regulation allowing for th

AUSTRALIAN PORTS CLOSED BY NATIONAL STRIKEAustralian ports stood still Thursday as waterfron

The murder trial of six Ukrainian sailors who are accused of throwing overboard eight African stowaw

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China's demand for gas oil imports will remain stagnant well into the second half of December, trade

International Petroleum Exchange Nov. 16, 1995Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

A story on Page 1B on Nov. 15, "Lykes Files Hazy Account of Creditors, Money Owed," listed some of L

As Japan makes final preparations to purchase and import a good portion of California's new rice cro

You have now established dialogues with new overseas prospects. The next step is to learn whether th

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