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TEA Tea. Contact: K. Paul Associates Ltd., 36 Ketawalamulla Pl., Colombo 9, Sri Lanka. Telep

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

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Like so many shoppers, Yo Murata was happy when he found that perfect pair of blue jeans: comfortabl

Even in a country with 900 million people, robots are starting to take over jobs on the production l

CAMBODIA PHONE DEAL EXPECTED NEXT WEEKPHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A lucrative contract award for

A U.S.-Hong Kong consortium said Thursday it will build the world's longest coal slurry pipeline 500

New York Mercantile Exchange - Aug. 18, 1994 Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High

COAL OUTPUT OFF 6.4 PERCENT IN INDIANA, DOE SAYSCHARLESTON, W. Va. - Indiana coal pr

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A big company's crumbs can be a small company's feast. Computer giant Sun Microsystems Inc.,

David Hoyer, president of Chevron U.S.A. Products Co., will retire at the end of August after a 41-y

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Aug. 18, 1994 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

INDIA SEEKING PRIVATE COAL-WASHING PLANTSIndia's state-run Coal India Ltd. has invited forei

South Korea repeated Thursday that communist North Korea must accept South Korean-model reactors und

Oil markets fell sharply in afternoon trading Thursday despite news from Nigeria that thegovernment

The great oil rush in Southeast Asia, which began some 30 years ago, is waning with no big discoveri

Lloyd's of London faces yet another legal assault, beyond the more than 30 individual actions alread

The headline on a story on Page 7A Thursday, Aug. 18, about an environmental pollution case incorrec

NATIONAL COUNCIL ON COMPENSATION INSURANCE (Boca Raton, Fla.) - James Crumel was promoted to directo

CONTINENTAL ELIMINATES COMMON-STOCK DIVIDENDNEW YORK - The Continental Corp. board o

Insurers called for passage of federal disaster legislation to protect themfrom being wiped

Thursday Aug. 18, 1994 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has released a revised version of its model law

U.S. reinsurance representatives dislike a proposed tax on their industry designed to resolve years-

In a tactical shift by House leaders, the House Ways and Means Committee sought to reach a decision

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Spanish fishermen fired at French trawlers in the Bay of Biscay on Thursday, wounding one Frenchman

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

The Panama Canal turned 80 this week, faced with bright short-term prospects but a more uncertain ov

Black's Law Dictionary describes the word "commercial" as relating to or connected withtrade . . . o

AMERICAN SHIP BUILDING REACHES TAMPA DEALAmerican Ship Building Co. has cleared a hurdle tha

Environmentalists will do the unthinkable - spill oil into the North Sea - to help test whether the

A miniature Singapore is taking shape in the rice paddy fields of Suzhou, part of Deng Xiaoping's vi

When voters in Mexico go to the polls for Sunday's closely watched national elections, the day of re