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Congressional maritime leaders in the House and Senate will be fighting for their political lives in

Bill Clinton, if elected president, will take a more balanced approach toward China, a Washington-ba

India's Finance Minister Manmohan Singh said economic growth in fiscal 1992-93 (April-March) will be

Japanese zinc smelters say production cutbacks in the important industrial commodity are likely next

The Environmental Protection Agency last week proposed rules that it said would reduce by thousands

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 199.38 off 0.20 which compares

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index continued lower last week. The newspaper's in

Japan is trying to allay Caribbean fears that a shipment of plutonium through the Caribbean Basin in

Railroad and trucking interests once again are squared off over the issue of longer combination vehi

McDonnell Douglas Corp. is negotiating with an International Business Machines Corp. subsidiary for

Pedro Perez, Spain's secretary of state for the economy, said Friday that a second devaluation of th

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Spain's industrial production index in August dropped by 5.7 percent over the same month in 1991, th

The U.S. electric industry is on the verge of a new era that should lead to lower rates for customer

A once-aggressive policy to cut U.S. dependence on Mideast oil has slippedfrom the national

East German companies increasingly will seek out trade with Latin American and other Third World cou

A. Bottachi SA de Navegacion of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a longstanding player in SouthAmerica's con

Rules governing Brazil's privatization program will probably change next year to include more cash a

Donor nations have agreed to put the World Bank in charge of organizing long- term technical aid to

The English-speaking Caribbean will phase down its common external tariff on imports from outside th

Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Group sees the country's ethylene shortage worsening unless the company ad

Oct. 30, 1992 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

California Gov. Pete Wilson is not up for re-election tomorrow, but that has not kept him from dashi

The New York Metropolitan section of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (Sname) ma

Cross-border expansion isn't all it's cracked up to be, France's largest insurers are learning.<

A federal judge has rejected Lifschultz Fast Freight's $1.8 billion claim that the nation's Big Thre

Friday, Oct. 30, 1992 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Italy swung to a trade deficit of $1.65 billion (2.174 trillion lire) in September after a surplus o

Wabash National Corp. has introduced a new 53-foot, domestic high-cube container. The new co

South Africa may experience a growth rate of between 1 percent and 2 percent in 1993, depending on t

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Automobile drivers in the most polluted parts of the country now are paying an extra 4 to 8 cents a

Resurging sales to the United States helped strengthen Brazilian shoe exports in August and Septembe

The Danish Parliament's EC committee formally approved a plan Friday to reverse the country's "no" v

House Republicans Friday asked Attorney General William Barr to appoint an independent counsel to in

Major insurers may join the legal attack against residential developers in South Florida being sued

World commodity prices, which dropped 13 percent in 1991, are forecast to rise 1 percent this year a

Two longstanding leaders of the U.S. maritime industry - one from dockside labor, the other from ste

For the week ended Oct. 24, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

Duke Power Co. has joined 13 utilities to form a national network of electric vehicle research offic