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Pakistan is formulating a strategy designed to double its merchant ship capacity by the year 2000, r

The world's richest countries Monday pledged $834 million in new aid to nations hardest hit by the P

A world's fair on the Danube, one of Europe's mightiest rivers, has run into some stiff opposition f

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BUSINESS CONFIDENCE DOWN SHARPLY IN JAPANJapanese business confidence deteriorated sharply i

The U.K. shipping line Cunard Ellerman has lost around 100,000 ($190,000) worth of equipment in Kuw

A simmering feud involving charges that a company reorganized in order to dissolve a union contract

Commitment to quality programs are a dime a dozen these days, but a tripartite program involving a m

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(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Mar. 11, 1991Bid AskedCopper-

ALGERIA - $16 million from the World Bank to improve public health care management. A 17-year loan,

The old pit head stands abandoned about a mile up a rutted road from this hard Welsh village. The gr

Germany and Britain, long split over how far to push European integration, called Monday for their c

McDonnell Douglas Corp. is expanding its presence in China, where it has a joint venture to manufact

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Refiners worldwide are expected to increase capacity utilization ratesbecause of strong refi

The Labor Department is proposing new minimum standards for employers offering retirement accounts t

Legislation that would severly curtail undisclosed settlements in a variety of tort actions was intr

This is a tale of the sea - a story of the stormy brine, a shipwreck and wartime intrigue, sunken tr

COHERENCE IS COMING to the U.S. government's use of paperless trading technology - and that has impl

It appears that the fires raging through Kuwait's prolific oil fields are damaging the producing fo

Japan's unions officially launched their annual nationwide spring campaigns for higher wages Monday,

The nationalist wing of the ruling Quebec Liberal Party scored a smashing victory over the weekend,

WEST STATE INC. (Portland, Ore.) - Tore Steen was named president and chief executive officer of the

The Soviet Ministry of Merchant Marine invested more than $20 million to develop a comprehensive ele

ROADWAY EXPRESS INC. (Akron, Ohio) - Lou Esposito was named vice president, Midwest division, and is

Britain and the United States Monday resolved a dispute allowing Pan American World Airways and Tran

THE CRB FUTURES INDEX ended February at 215.6, up 1 percent from the January close, as the industria

ConAgra Inc. will soon begin a "lean value pork buying program," whereby a premium will be paid for

MASS. GASOLINE PRICES FALL TO PREWAR LEVELSAverage gasoline prices at self-service retail st

Egypt approved a development project to boost the capacity of the Sumed pipeline by 50 percent, incr

Mar. 11, 1991 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

1763 (Mar. 11, 1991) Previous day - 1763 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

The European Community is expected on Friday to recommend a lifting of member- country import restri

CASIO INTRODUCING HAND-HELD COLOR TVCasio announced it has added a new hand-held color telev

HERSHEY TO ACQUIRE GERMAN CANDY MAKERHERSHEY, Pa. - Hershey Foods Corp. Monday said it agree

The 12 member nations of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation said they will set up a computerized

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' technical experts failed to agree on a forecast for d

SAFETY BOARD CHIEF TO DISCUSS CRUISE BILLJames Kolstad, chairman of the National Transportat

As of Mar. 11 1991 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list prices