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Merck & Co., the largest U.S. pharmaceutical company, Wednesday inaugurated a high-tech plant in Bei

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The Coast Guard crew that carried out one of the most daring and perilous rescue missions in recent

Brazil Wednesday began to reform its constitution, with big fights expected over efforts to open up

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

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

The needs of maritime commerce must be preserved while handling growing environmental issues in worl

Southern California Edison Corp. has scrapped plans to operate a Mexican power plant after being cri

Midwestern soybean farmers, slow to sell much of their new-crop supplies during harvest, are likely

Atlanta Gas Light Co.'s insurers don't have to help pay for a massive cleanup of toxic coal-tar pits

John Graykowski, a Washington attorney, has emerged as the leading candidate for the top policy and

Lane May-July May-July East Asia to West Coast 13.8 pe

China must stamp out the "staggering" growth in copyright piracy or risk U.S. sanctions for not impl

At the end of a recent two-hour morning flight from Tokyo to the Russian Far East city of Khabarovsk

Although Burlington Northern Railroad and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes agreed earl

In a move aimed at reducing the nation's health-care bill, the Justice Department Wednesday approved

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The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 220.27 up 1.02 which compares w

Cyprus Minerals Co. President Milton F. Ward will get about $6 million for pulling off the biggest m

Freeport-McMoRan Resource Partners Ltd. said it is continuing to reduce costs and to make operations

European shipowners voiced fears Wednesday that the European Community is about to smother them with

Port of Galveston officials said port operations have returned to normal following lastweekend's dea

DOT DELAYS SANCTIONS AGAINST CHINESE LINESWASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transp

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China plans to increase imports during the five-year plan through 1995 to US$350 billion from the or

Longshoremen in California are stepping up their fight against the proposed North American free-trad

The country's largest state-owned coal company plans to export 1 million metric tons (1.1 million to

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Negotiations between the Southern Pacific Transportation Co. and the ports of Los Angeles and Long B

About 400 Cigna Corp. employees will lose their jobs by the end of the year as the Philadelphia insu

JUDGE DISMISSES NJ BID TO HALT URANIUM LOADSTRENTON, N.J. - A federal judge dismisse

The number of vehicles carried by ocean carriers is expected to fall this year to its lowest level s

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. and Nissho Iwai Corp. will jointly tender for the construction of maj

CHEMICAL FIRM ADOPTS ENVIRONMENTAL CODEST. PAUL, Minn. - H.B. Fuller Co. has become

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Approval of a new goods and services tax will allow the government to cut corporate tax and take oth

The world's leading industrial powers said they were basing their support for Taiwan's entry to the

London & Overseas Freighters Ltd., a Bermuda-based tanker company, Wednesday announced plans to rais

GREEK PRIME MINISTER TO SCRAP PRIVATIZATIONATHENS, Greece - Newly elected Greek soci