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John P. Stern doesn't act like some foreigners who have lived in Japan for a while. He doesn

Trash is becoming a small but growing and profitable business for the Norfolk Southern Corp.

ALLIED SIGNAL BUYS GEORGIA COMPANYMORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Allied Signal Inc. has acq

Norway's Finance Ministry said it was shaving its 1994 forecast for overall gross domestic product (

Investors in northern California are moving ahead with Mexican projects they had postponed because o

The incumbent president of a maritime radio officers union was re-elected by a wide margin after an

Economic reforms in Bangladesh drew praise from multilateral agencies, but overseas investors appear

China plans to invest more than US$25 billion for low- and middle-income housing during the next thr

Two riverboat casinos in Tunica County, Miss., cashed in on their gamble to the tune of $140 million

A controversial stevedoring company had its Port Everglades Authority franchise probation sharply re

Keppel Shipyard of Singapore won a S$40 million contract to convert NanHai Kai Tuo, a 152,404-deadwe

Officials said a development zone aimed at promoting agricultural product exports is being built in

As Canada's business community gears up for an era of continental free trade encompassing Mexico and

CoCensys Inc. has filed two Investigational New Drug (IND) applications with the U.S. Food and Drug

HERCULES INC. MAKES ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGESWILMINGTON, Del. - Hercules Inc. said it i

BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB CO. (New York) - Michael E. Autera, executive vice president of the pharmaceuti

Scientists at Siemens Corporate Research Inc. have developed a new programming tool that automatical

Having bowed to pressure from the Clinton administration to pay new, higher landing fees at Los Ange

After a fierce bidding war in a federal bankruptcy court in New York Wednesday, a New England Motor

Japan has become the fourth-largest international market for U.S.-made personal computer software an

ASIAN PRICES ATTRACT US JET FUEL CARGOESSINGAPORE - High prices of jet fuel in Asia

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The insurance industry may soon begin to grade local governments on how well they enforce their buil

NH MAY FILE SUIT OVER NAVAL SHIPYARDKITTERY, Maine - Haggling by New Hampshire and Maine ove

World sugar consumption is expected to outstrip production by 1.85 million metric tons in 1993-94 (S

Europe Combined Terminals BV is close to driving out the last of the gremlins that infiltrated its s

OVERCOATS Women's overcoats. Contact: Pierre Balmain, 44 rue Francois 1er, F-75008 Paris, Fr

Dec. 2, 1993 Copper Total, 80,540. Gold Total, .2,536,351.Silver Tot

Codelco-Chile is seeking new joint-venture arrangements to raise annual copper production to 1.3 mil

With revenue growth stalled by the New York region's recession, the Port Authority of New York & New

Four years after North Carolina raised its tax on diesel fuel, truck stop operators have asked the s

The International Longshoremen's Association appealed Thursday a federal agency ruling that the unio

Japanese government procurement of foreign computers more than doubled this year to 18.4 percent of

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

U.S. maritime interests are angered by the prospect of maritime services being included in negotiati

International Petroleum Exchange Dec. 2, 1993Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)_

Both the Mayflower and Minuteman pipeline proposals offer a new level of service, designed to meet t

Safeway, a small Chicago insurer, was licensed last week to begin selling homeowners insurance in Fl

Imposing a 5 percent ticket tax on cruise passengers could induce cruise operators to avoid U.S. emb

CHILEAN COPPER PROJECT TO BEGIN PRODUCTIONSANTIAGO, Chile - Chile's Compania Minera Cerro Co