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The lower-than-expected 1991 American winter wheat crop forecasts from the U.S. Agriculture Departme

Private insurers may follow the federal government's lead and calculate payments to doctors based on

Singapore International Monetary Exchange July 12, 1991Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel

1561 (July 12, 1991) Previous day - 1586 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

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LOCKING IT IN: That's what Hanjin Shipping Co. is working at in the Pacific trade. The Korea

When Kyosuke Watanabe arrived here in 1989 to work for Tokai Bank Ltd.'s newly acquired leasing busi

The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service found five illegal Haitian immigrants caged and shac

HARTFORD LIFE KEEPS EXCELLENT S&P RATINGStandard and Poor's Insurance Rating Service affirme

For the week ended July 6, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 96

The proverbial "bottom line" is behind the aggressive U.S. moves to protect its industries' patents,

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WHOLESALE PRICES DOWN IN JAPAN FOR JUNETOKYO - The Japanese wholesale price index for June a

PA. LAWMAKER SAYS BILL WOULD LIMIT BIG RIGSALTOONA, Pa. - A key House Republican said langua

Freightliner Corp. launched a new truck line Thursday that it hopes will increase its share of the m

''Miss America" is still battling "Barbie" in a court case that could limit importers' options in re

Statewide self-serve gasoline prices rose over 3 cents a gallon in the last two weeks, the State Ene

The details are buried in the legalese of corporate proxy statements. The information canbe confusin

Eaton Corp. has agreed to purchase the Mannheim, Germany-related assets of a division that manufactu

Egypt already has bought or signed contracts to buy enough wheat to carry it through next year and w

July 12, 1991 Copper Total, 31,619. Gold Total, .1,781,699.Silver Total, .2

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MEXICO SEEN OPENING TO FOREIGN INVESTMENTA Mexican official last week said the government is

The story headlined "Hong Kong Cuts Textile Quotas to Aid War Effort," which appeared on Page 1A of

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index slipped last week on softer plywood prices. T

Titanium, the extremely durable and indispensable metal for jet airplanes and spacecraft, is being b

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Fri., July 12, 1991 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

Jorge A. Soberon is feeling sad these days. A friend he's had for 25 years is dying. Mr. Sob

California's Air Resources Board hasn't yet evaluated Atlantic Richfield Co.' s claims about its new

Insurgent members of the marine engineers union, backed by a nationwide vote of unionmembers to expe

French businessman Vincent Bollore will be forced to go to the powerful shareholders in his group if

Mobay Corp., a Pittsburgh-based chemical manufacturer, is disputing EnvironmentalProtection Agency c

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Central banks of the Group of 7 major industrial countries shot the dollar down Friday in an impress

At age 15, Matty Morgenstern said goodbye to his parents in Romania, joined the Jewish exodus of imm

NISSAN MOTOR CORP. (Detroit) - Haruo Ohno was appointed president of Nissan North America. At the sa

REGIONAL BLOCSDoing Business in Eastern Europe. July 29-30: Boston. Contact Sharon Mazur, Ha

TWO WEEKS AGO in this column, I wrote about my interpretation of a ''candlestick" chart of the July

THE "WARM AND FUZZY" insurance company advertising of yesteryear may be fading into oblivion, as ins