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Edgar A. Chase III has been named chairman of the board of commissioners of the Port of New Orleans.

Making a telephone call in Prague requires persistence, patience and a good measure of luck.

India's annual inflation rate, aided by a mid-September increase in petroleum product prices, is edg

Coffee prices Monday slipped amid profit-taking following Friday's surge to a five-month high.

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,200-$1,300per ton lots &

Masiek Seng organized a loan club with other Cambodian immigrants. The club failed, Mr. Seng says, w

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Freight volumes on trans-Pacific liner routes will grow between 2 percent and 5 percent through next

Bank Negara, Malaysia's central bank, is expanding its presence in late European and New York market

Some 180,000 bottles of the first South African wine have flowed across the docks of Savannah, Ga.,

TAIWANESE TO HELP BUILD RAILWAY LINE IN CHINATAIPEI, Taiwan - A Taiwanese investment

Convinced that the multibillion-dollar boom in U.S. food exports to Mexico will continue, U.S. Secre

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Britain warned the United States Monday that it must approve British Airways PLC's planned $750 mill

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Sun Co. officials are talking with oil-producing nations both within and outside of OPEC about the p

Maurice Strong, a noted Canadian environmentalist and former chairman of Petro-Canada, has been appo

Prospects for release of government coffee inventories by Brazil, the world's largest coffee produce

As of Nov. 2, 1992 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

Police said they have arrested three members of an international gang of uranium smugglers, includin

COFFEE EXPORTERS PROTEST KENYAN AUCTION SYSTEMCoffee exporters in Kenya have withdrawn from

More than half of Americans think Gov. Bill Clinton is the best candidate to tackle the nation's hea

The worst hurricane in history has left builders and insurance companies battling over construction

The anti-incumbent sentiment permeating today's election contests could torpedo the leading players

West German shipbuilder Bremer Vulkan AG and the west German shipping line Senator Linie GmbH are jo

The turmoil created in exchange rate markets in recent months underscores the need for caution befor

A City Council committee offered a last-minute plan to save Todd Shipyards Corp.'s former San Pedro

A federal judge Monday signed a settlement of a lawsuit over an investment fiasco that cost a major

Improved U.S.-China trade ties have Hong Kong businesses upbeat about the next quarter despite a lul

The next mayor of the largest city on the U.S. West Coast must understand Southern California's impo

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TNT Ltd. and Mayne Nickless Transport Inc., two of Australia's major multinational transport groups,

All drivers filling up in the Twin Cities area will be buying gasoline with ethanol in it - like it

1113 (Oct. 31, 1992) Previous day - 1111 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Experiments are under way to use India's plentiful reserves of thorium as fuel for nuclear power sta

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IMPERIAL PLANS TO CLOSE 2 UK CHLORINE PLANTSImperial Chemical Industries PLC will close two

Nov. 2, 1992 This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals and the e

Trunkline Gas Co. on Sunday restored 400 million cubic feet a day of capacity at its "T21" gas-gathe