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Selig Altschul, a pioneer financial adviser to numerous airlines, died of cancer on Dec. 17 at his h

REGIONAL BLOCS Inter-American Development Bank: Quarterly Business Briefings. Feb. 2. Washin

The Texas Railroad Commission has authorized natural gas production at the rate of 14.618 billion cu

Forest Oil Corp. will receive $51.2 million from Oneok Inc., an Oklahoma utility, after an agreement

An assassination squad armed with submachine guns killed the head of Peru's largest labor confederat

Some of the heaviest loss-making investors at the Lloyd's of London insurance market at last may hav

William E. Thiele, president of Continental Insurance Group, is returning to the reinsurance end of

Navieras de Puerto Rico, the commonwealth's government-owned shipping line, posted a $20.4 million l

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The Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Interior su

Leaders of France's center-right opposition expressed widely differing views on the franc and the Eu

NEW RULE TO REQUIRE REFLECTORS ON TRAILERSThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Canada's major banks took the unprecedented step Friday of cutting their prime lending rates for the

Transportation News Ticker The dry cargo and tanker fixtures listed herewith and compiled in

American Telephone & Telegraph Co. opened a Global Communications Center in Los Angeles, the company

Western German exports have seemed "surprisingly lively" recently, considering the poor foreign indu

Russia's new prime minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin, called Friday for $480 million in soft loans for t

AMOCO OIL PURCHASES DISTRIBUTION TERMINALATLANTA - Amoco Oil Co. purchased Shell Oil

Dec. 18, 1992 Copper Total, 84,277. Gold Total, .1,511,244.Silver Tot

REPUBLICANS BLAST NY BLUE CROSS, SHIELDALBANY, N.Y. - New York's Republican Senate M

The chairman of the second-largest French insurance group has profited from his alliance with the ne

A bill will be introduced at the next session of the Texas Legislature that will impose "a small tax

In "Maritime Policy Materials Earmarked for Clinton," a story on Page 1B on Dec. 4, a Department of

President Bush's top environmental aide has urged President-elect Clinton to be aggressive in revamp

The disappearance of an Indian officer from a Bahamian-flag ship off the coast of New York last week

U.S. aviation officials have asked the Japanese to meet in Tokyo next month in an attempt to resolve

Alirio Parra of Venezuela, OPEC's president, said this week that he believes the decline in world oi

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The European maker of the RU-486 abortion pill was urged by 34 newly elected U.S. House members to a

JAPAN-CANADA TALKS ON COPPER INCONCLUSIVETalks between Canada's Highland Valley Copper and J

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Bah humbug! Now that it has emptied its warehouses of toys in time for the holidays, one of Santa's

Even accounting for the state of the national economy and talk of a global recession, it'shard to un

Railroads will end the year with strong grain traffic after lagging through much of thesecond half.<

India's industrial production and trade also are set to resume normal levels next week as calm retur

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

President Bush signed the North American free-trade agreement Thursday, a defining achievement of hi

The global trading system administered by the Geneva-based General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is

The inflation rate for consumers in 1993 could fall to its lowest level in seven years, as the impac