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It's 79 degrees in the shade and you're a German letter carrier. It's hard workingin the sun, so why

Jennifer Kelly won't soon forget the day she was promoted to government- affairs director for the Am

Europe Combined Terminals (ECT) is having the last laugh. After 18 months, the $275 million

The European Union's semiannual summit, which starts here Friday, will not be short on drama and big

Supertankers built in the mid-1970s will likely not be scrapped as soon as many in the industry had

The leading railroads in intermodal traffic have conducted a quiet mating dance designed to create a

Japanese Foreign Minister Koji Kakizawa Wednesday called on Japan to promptly conclude trade talks w

FOREIGN FIRMS IN CHINA HAD 260 STRIKES IN '93BEIJING - Foreign-invested companies we

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

International Petroleum Exchange June 22, 1994Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

June 22, 1994 RESELLER RACKUnleaded Mid- Premium-Unlead Pre

June 22, 1994 No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%

Declining supplies of raw material are expected to force more lead smelters to curtail operating cap

A small Houston company here said it has acquired an exclusive option to license an AIDS vaccine bei

Exports will play a major role in South Africa's new economic development plan, and financial incent

The inland towing industry may soon be required to train and certify its towboat operators in radar

Aiming to be more customer-friendly, and save some money in the process, Procter & Gamble Co. on Wed

PRATT GETS BIG ORDER FROM SINGAPORE AIREAST HARTFORD, Conn. - Pratt & Whitney has la

Nearly all truckers are shying away from using containers for intermodal service, with one major exc

Container lines that carry refrigerated meat from Australia to the United States have cut their frei

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

Sources in Washington and here at the American Petroleum Institute's oil tanker conference believe t

Austria Wednesday posted an April current account deficit of 2.7 billion schillings ($240 million) c

Sweden posted an April current account surplus of 1.1 billion kronor (US$143 million), compared with

An ambitious proposal to build a $5 billion natural-gas pipeline between India and Oman may be delay

ARCO UNIT REJECTS PORTION OF CRUDELOS ANGELES - Four Corners Pipe Line Co., a subsid

SHANGHAI OIL CONTRACTS SET TO START TRADINGHONG KONG - China's Shanghai Petroleum Ex

South Korea opens its bond market to foreigners for the first time next week, accelerating the pace

Rich nations and aid agencies pledged up to $1.4 billion in grants and loans by the year 2000 toward

A New York bankruptcy court has voided an agreement between Leslie Fay Companies Inc. and the Intern

Vietnam approved $827 million in foreign investment during the first quarter of this year, up 58 per

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 234.29 off 0.58 w

June 22, 1994 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

COFFEE FUTURES FALL AFTER EARLY RALLYCoffee futures prices tumbled after an early push highe

China says retail sales prices of oil products nationwide have declined after it adopted oil policy

CANADA, ARGENTINA SIGN NUCLEAR PACTOTTAWA - Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien an

Americans shipping products to St. Petersburg, Russia, this summer could see their insurance disappe

(1) DAILY INDEX Annual Smoothed percent +13.996/16 102.96/17 103.36/20

Many foreign airlines flying into the United States, chiefly from lesser- developed countries, fail

Four of Texas' largest workers compensation carriers pledged to cut the rates they charge employers