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AUSTRALIA UNVEILS NATIONAL RAIL PROJECTSYDNEY, Australia - Calling it Australia's dr

Chinese authorities said they are considering a new strategy to open the country to the outside worl

The state of Missouri's effort to keep the Missouri River open to barge traffic until Dec. 1, five w

In keeping with a new law aimed at reforming China's money-losing state enterprises, Beijing's bigge

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DATE OF AWARD: "E" Award in 1991.WHY THE AWARD WAS GIVEN:In the mid-1980s, w

Quick work by emergency response teams to an accident involving a truck carrying toxic chemicals kep

The Risk and Insurance Management Society plans a course this fall on ''International Risk and Insur

By rearranging a lashing routine for paper, harbor workers at the Port of Gothenburg speed up the wo

Russia plans to lift the heavy veil of secrecy that for decades of Soviet power surrounded its gold

Platinum and gold prices in the near term will continue to be strongly influenced by political devel

The Senate Wednesday defeated an amendment that would ban sales of public lands to mining companies

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The British government, under pressure to change its economic policy, faced a new barrage of bad new

Lufthansa this week announced the appointment of several key cargo managers, a move that completes t

By putting more emphasis on modifying existing ships and lowering its vessel speed requirements, the

The U.S. dollar was mixed Thursday after drifting off its highs in a slow market that focused on Thu

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A Japanese oil company signed two contracts this week covering work in China's northern Bohai Sea, f

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The average refinery profit margin in Europe and the United States fell during July from June, the I

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British Petroleum Co. PLC Thursday announced a loss of UK812 million ($1.55 billion) in the second q

While state insurance departments nationwide are receiving additional resources, they are not enough

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A House water resources panel approved more than $3 billion for 24 new navigation, flood control and

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Canadian opponents of North American free trade are going on the attack even before officials from t

A board that oversees a farmer-funded soybean promotion program said Wednesday it is auditing one of

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

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The House Public Works and Transportation Committee decided Wednesday to vote on a "technical correc

General Reinsurance Corp. has begun to pull out of its underwriting income slide earlier than some i

The Bush administration Thursday began the job of rallying big business to support the North America

Ports and shippers are seething over a Bush administration plan to transfer 8 percent of harbor main

Airborne Express, bolstered by the success of its Flight Ready Letter Express, is offering a second

China's Communist Party will write market economics into its platform at this year's congress, which

Kellwood Co. is starting to sell apparel overseas after years of making it there. William J.

COURT CLEARS WAY FOR STEEL PIPE DUTIESA federal court cleared the way for anti-dumping dutie

International Petroleum Exchange Aug. 6, 1992Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)_