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PORT OF CORPUS CHRISTI AUTHORITY (Corpus Christi, Texas) - Robert G. Jacobi was named deputy directo

Austria has been celebrating the defeat of a Western plan to open a nuclear power plant in neighbori

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Insurers in Eastern Europe may be exacerbating the region's balance of payment difficulties by purch

2 MEMBERS' AGENCIES AT LLOYD'S TO MERGELloyd's of London members' agencies Oakwood Underwrit

British Airways, looking to capitalize on the extraordinary growth of the European-Latin American ca

Britain has become the latest European country to come under fire from the European Union for seekin

Union Pacific Corp., riding its railroad's best first quarter in history, on Thursday reported a 13

National oil company Pertamina is adopting drastic cost-cutting measures after the world's oil major

CHINA DEFENDS ACTIVITY ON DISPUTED ISLANDSBEIJING - China said Thursday its construc

Major developing nations this year will receive only about half the private capital they attracted l

Japan's telephone monopoly is refusing to extend open bidding rules to a new subsidiary created to e

U.S.-based companies operating in Brazil will triple investments to as much as $6 billion this year,

About two years after Boeing Co. and McDonnell Douglas Corp. began negotiations with Saudi Arabia on

Apr. 20, 1995 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

Sri Lanka is expanding its main harbor - the Port of Colombo, which sits astride a major East-West s

Ships approaching the French coast can hear foghorns blowing in clear conditions and see lighthouse

The Port of Philadelphia and Camden is closing a marketing office in Pittsburgh, officials confirmed

P/C NET GROWS 40 PERCENT AT LIBERTY MUTUAL COS.BOSTON - Liberty Mutual Insurance Cos

ALEXANDER & ALEXANDER INC. (New York) - James D. Dyson has joined AlexEnvironmental, a unit of this

The Federal Maritime Commission is demanding that trans-Pacific Ocean carriers explain actions they

UNATTENDED LUGGAGE EMPTIES JFK TERMINALPolice briefly evacuated the international-arrivals t

Talks next month on admitting China to the World Trade Organization have been complicated by a new d

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Officials in the Chinese capital are tightening up supervision and control of foreign-funded enterpr

New York Mercantile Exchange - Apr. 20, 1995 Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High

As authorities are struggling to cope with the consequences of last summer's huge oil spill in north

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, April 18, '94 - April 20, '95 (a graph)

W.R. GRACE CHAIRMAN IS DEAD AT 81BOCA RATON, Fla. - J. Peter Grace, chairman of W.R.

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

The dollar settled into range trade Thursday after an early-morning rally on the back of stop-loss b

South Africa's Impala Platinum will upgrade its precious metals refinery to a capacity of between 1.

The European Union has formally adopted an agreement with the United States allowing their antitrust

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AGRICULTURAL LOANS TOTAL $7.19 BILLION IN CHINABEIJING - Agricultural Bank of China

Argentina appears to have ducked the bullet of U.S. trade action for patent piracy and may drag Braz

The central bank voiced concern Thursday over the impact the rise of the Thai baht against the dolla

JAPAN OPENS SKIES TO SATELLITE BROADCASTERSTOKYO - Japan opened its skies to foreign

Learning who bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City may come down tofinding 17 numbers