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Hondo Oil & Gas Co. reported that its wholly owned subsidiary, Mackenzie Porcupine Pipeline Co., has

Western German unemployment rose to 2.258 million people in January from2.026 million in Dec

Indiana's Department of Insurance has suspended about 825 insurance agents in the state for failing

Major coffee consumer countries are no longer showing the political will to reach an understanding a

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Trade estimates said Brazil's 1992 soybean crush will rise 5.5 percent from a year earlier to 14 mil

Federal and state officials have come under harsh criticism for failing to provide greater help in d

OWENS-CORNING SAYS EARNINGS, SALES STRONGTOLEDO, Ohio - Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp

A $75 million World Bank loan to Cambodia has fallen through as the country's political situation ha

Thai Olefins Co. has awarded a 750 million baht (US$29.3 million) contract to Thai Co-Generation Co.

Amanda Debusk, a Washington lawyer for the Los Angeles firm O'Melveney & Myers, is expected to be na

The World Bank warned East Asian nations against forming a regional trade bloc to counter the trade

MEXICO VOWS PROTECTION AGAINST US STEEL TARIFFSMexico vowed to protect its steel producers a

It's one of those things people in authority don't like to talk about. They squirm a little - and se

In a report on fourth-quarter 1992 earnings that won praise from financial analysts, rail signaling

Japan likely will liberalize the wheat market as a concession to ongoing multilateral GATT trade tal

The newly established Fair Trade Commission warned 40 large enterprises they could be prosecuted if

Requests for a 9.3 percent cut in surcharges on drivers with clean records met no opposition at a re

Workers compensation rates will not change this year in South Carolina, according to the group that

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The U.S. Maritime Administration purchased a 20-year-old tanker for $1.4 million at a judicial aucti

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent)is as f

Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary indicated that her department would move quickly to increase use of n

Former Federal Highway Administrator Ray Barnhart has filed suit against a Massachusetts lawmaker fo

Environmentalists want Texas to go to court to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency in the

Polish Ocean Lines, abandoned by the ministries of Poland and beset by creditors from Belgium to New

The Coast Guard is bracing for a last-minute deluge of oil spill responseplans from tanker o

French industrial investment slumped by roughly 11 percent in value terms in 1992, according to a su

New Hampshire is seeking to reach an out-of-court settlement with the owners of the Seabrook nuclear

The U.S. Air Force awarded an AlliedSignal/Chrysler team a contract to upgrade aviation electronics

ProMat '93. International material-handling systems and technologies exposition, Feb. 8-11. McCormic

Trying to make good on his promise of a technology-friendly administration and sending a warning of

Senior Japanese officials expressed concern Friday that Japan's massive annual trade surpluses, whic

None of 14 witnesses endorsed the North American free-trade agreement (Nafta) at a public hearing sp

Two property/casualty insurance trade associations, with headquarters a few miles apart in Chicago's

A maritime cleanup company reported success with a new type of oil skimmer that can pick up thick he

The 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster killed 10 times as many birds as any other oil spill and threatens pe

Kuwait will lobby the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to allow it to continue increasi

A federal court decision overturning a New York state law that forced commercial insurers to pay sur