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In what could become one of the most costly shipping-line failures for the container-leasing industr

LUCKY FRIDAY MINE AWAITS 'LUCKY' MONDAYMULLAN, Idaho - Workers are glad the Lucky Fr

EU AMBASSADOR URGES TRANS-ATLANTIC TRADE PACTMAASTRICHT, Netherlands - The European

New York's 55-mph speed limit is one of the last vestiges of a 1974 federal law intended to save fue

South Africa's crude oil refiners are being forced to seek international markets for their products

Nov. 17, 1994 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

A major dredging project on the Columbia River took a crucial step forward this summer when seven po

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The textile industry, hit by high cotton prices and financial problems, is looking to the government

China's nationwide consumer price index soared 27.7 percent in October compared with October 1993, t

Lumber mills and other railroad users in Oregon are experiencing long delays in shipping goods out o

Russia's foreign economic relations ministry is considering a plan to oblige exporters to convert al

As recently as 1976, forest products giant Weyerhaeuser Co. in Tacoma, Wash., produced zero newsprin

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While the majority of import entries are subject to "general examination" procedures, whereby the U.

Spurred by strong exports of goods and services, Singapore's vibrant economy grew 10.2 percent durin

Kentucky's insurance commissioner has issued an order that once again requires companies that sell w

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Western German wholesale prices fell 0.3 percent in October from September and were up 2.7 percent f

OPEC ministers expect to set an oil output ceiling aimed at achieving prices of between $16 and $19

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The Port of Houston Authority, in its continuing drive to bring more nonunion workers to Houston's d

A corrections official, a real estate developer, an insurance executive, a stockbroker,assorted busi

A sudden move to find new uses for Consolidated Rail Corp.'s Beacon Park intermodal yard has shaken

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York and other sources, are selling r

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index moved up to another high for 1994 at 110.3 Thursday,

All that glitters is once again gold for South Africa. That nation, freed from U.S. trade sa

Already bruised by the charge that he sacrificed human rights for commercial gain on his trip to Asi

A 12.7 percent increase in containerized cargo in the first nine months of 1994 should expand the Po

The U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command will charter a Greek cruise ship registered in Panama to pr

The Quebec government and Canada's federal authorities are at odds over the survival of the last maj

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With the ink barely dry on $40 billion in deals involving U.S. companies, the Clinton administration

A spirited attack on GOP tax cut proposals could boomerang on Clinton aides in two weeks when these

American Airlines reported strong cargo gains both for the third quarter and the month of October.

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In its first estimate of 1994-95 (October-September) world coffee production, F.O. Licht, a German s

A week after restricting a major drug industry merger, the Federal TradeCommission is re-exa

The Noble Collection: A Work in Progress. Through Spring 1995, Staten Island, N.Y. New exhibition at