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US-GERMAN COAL DEAL WINS EC'S APPROVALBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Commission Thursday g

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners will establish a $50,000 travel expenses fund to

Nearly a quarter of the workers in Texas are not covered by workers compensation insurance, accordin

CALIFORNIA INDEMNITY PLACED ON FITCHALERTCalifornia Indemnity Insurance Co.'s "A" claims-pay

China's patent office promised Thursday to try to shorten the "transitional period" to give protecti

Lots of people get by with vanity license plates, but Rep. John Paul Hammerschmidt, R-Ark., evidentl

Puerto Rico's government-owned shipping line plans to shake up its top management, eliminate about 8

KEY CHAINS Plastic key chain. Contact Union Plastic Factory Ltd., 2001 Eastern Center, 1065

Through dramatic ice-breaking maneuvers at several Upper Mississippi River locks, private towboat op

India will lift most import curbs by the end of this month, and the few remaining will be abolished

CIA DIRECTOR OPPOSES ECONOMIC ESPIONAGECIA Director Robert Gates said he is opposed to the a

The Interstate Commerce Commission issued its first estimate of the total potential truck undercharg

Consolidated Rail Corp. is looking at a $420 million to $450 million after-tax hit to its earnings i

Grains and soybean futures on the Chicago Board of Trade traded higher late Thursday in response to

Deliveries of Brazil's already shrunken 1991-92 (October-April) main cocoa crop have been delayed by

Japan's beef imports could grow as much as 17 percent to a record 400,000 metric tons in 1992 if con

New coal ports are under construction around the coast of Britain in anticipation of a big increase

Fewer and larger suppliers to Europe's public sector energy utilities will survive after the Europea

A congressman proposed the creation of a U.S. emergency oil conservation corps to help stop the decl

Bulgaria Thursday became the first country in Eastern Europe to sentence former Communist officials

Thursday Dec. 12, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

Ocean carriers are discharging and loading Uruguay cargoes in Buenos Aires and U.S. importers are ex

The Port of San Francisco has joined other California ports in raising its wharfage rates. E

The Port of Gothenburg, Sweden, said it will cut its work force by 20 percent to increase profits.

Shipowners are refusing to unload U.S. grain intended to help the Soviet Union through a difficult w

Votainer Consolidation Services USA Inc., an ocean freight consolidator, will expand its service net

The International Monetary Fund is seeking a nearly 13 percent increase in its staff over the next t

Dec. 12, 1991 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

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Aluminum ingots_ $1,137 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.7%Antimo

THE SUDDEN DEPARTURE THIS WEEK of Fred Pitre from the helm of Canada Steamship Lines Inc. had reverb

A detergent-like chemical known as a surfactant, already a proven treatment for breathing problems i

Dec. 12, 1991 RESELLER Rack_Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded

GAS OIL FREIGHT RATES RISE ON RHINE RIVERFreight rates for Rhine river gas oil barge voyages

Total Ocean Marine Services Inc., a new ship line that recently won an extended battle to serve the

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If you put together the daily diet of constitutional warmongering in Canadian newspapers with the eq

Thailand has not kept promises to stop piracy of foreign videos and records, but the Bush administra

1552 (Dec. 11, 1991) Previous day - 1553 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

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