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It wasn't a particularly auspicious start: Fifteen 20-foot shipping containers of monkfish from the

With much fanfare, Toys "R" Us, the model of retail efficiency in the United States, entered Scandin

Partisan warfare in Congress has again delayed action on a bill allowing the expansion of the North

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High demand and low availability of zinc in south China's manufacturing hot spots will keep exporter

China's People's Daily issued a front-page paean to its navy on Friday, praising the modernization o

As Croatia girds for all-out war against rebel Serbs, U.S. military forces transporting NATO troops

The Interstate Commerce Commission, bowing to pressure from states who said they needed more time to

Federal Express Corp., seeking to leapfrog its top competitor, said it will offer an 8 a.m. delivery

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AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Tom Donahue successfully beat back a bid by union insurgents Tuesday to

The Teamsters union is restoring a modest strike benefit of $55 a week, the first time it has been a

Tuesday, Aug. 1, 1995 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

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Plant and machinery orders fell a real 11 percent in June from the year- earlier month, driven by a

French oil group Elf Aquitaine SA said Tuesday it started developing an oil field in Nigeria at a ti

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Industrial production increased 10.0 percent on year in June, local press reported Tuesday.

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Aug. 3, '94 - Aug. 1, '95 (a graph) (2)D

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"I wish I had that job." A familiar war cry. It echoes off the walls every time a story about marine

MEXICO NAMES BIDDERS ON MULTI-USE TERMINALSMEXICO CITY - The Secretaria de Comunicac

Motor carriers in Mexico are operating under new hazardous materials reporting requirements this wee

AMERICA'S FROSTY relationship with China serves neither country's interests. The two governments hav

Two Nebraska companies have signed a letter of intent with the Chinese government to build and opera

U.S. negotiators are "impatient" with the pace of talks to bring Chile on board the North American F

Albert A. Pierce Jr., the managing director of the Transpacific Westbound Rate Agreement, has always

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HUB GROUP INC. (Lombard, Ill.) - Louis G. Moix was appointed district manager of the company's newly

Cathay Pacific Airways has agreed in principle to open the lucrative Taiwan- Hong Kong route to more

TNT Freightways Corp., a family of regional less-than-truckload carriers, and Direct Container Line

FEDEX PILOTS PROTEST SLOW PROGRESS IN TALKSSome 30 Federal Express pilots picketed a FedEx s

Benton Oil & Gas Co. announced a significant increase in oil production from the Uracoa field in Mon

International Ship- holding Corp. said Niels M. Johnsen was elected president of Waterman Steamship

Negotiators for the Teamsters union and the National Automobile Transporters Labor Division will hea

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