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Massachusetts lawmakers are being asked to enact perhaps the nation's strongest safeguards against i

BETHLEHEM STEEL TO SELL TWO LAKES ORE VESSELSBETHLEHEM, Pa. - Bethlehem Steel Corp. announce

The Senate Agriculture Committee Thursday approved grain-quality legislation after making several ch

France's financial and commodities futures exchange, Matif SA, is taking 28 percent of the shares of

In just four years, China has surged to become the second-largest supplier of military hardware to T

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

The United Nations goal to establish adequate housing worldwide by the year 2000 is one of several p

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The Boeing Co. and a group of its liability insurers are preparing to slug it out in court on the qu

The cloak of banking secrecy should be lifted as part of worldwide efforts to curb the laundering o

The Canadian government is appealing a Quebec court ruling last week that struck down the federal co

Apr. 19, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Crude oil prices came roaring back Thursday after days of steady declines. The U.S. benchmar

DURING WHAT WAS CALLED the baseball summit last week, President Bush got a heavy whiff of the curren

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

A House maritime committee sent a $558 million fiscal year 1991 spending bill for the Maritime Admin

HAVE U.S. GRAIN EXPORTERS really withdrawn offers to supply grain to the Soviet Union grain in respo

SANTA FE PACIFIC CORP. REPORTS QUARTERLY LOSSSanta Fe Pacific Corp. Thursday reported a firs

New claims for state unemployment insurance benefits were made by 371,000 people during the week end

Truckers could run heavyweight, triple-trailer loads across the nation's midsection if a direct Chic

EAST GERMANY PLANS TO EASE COMPANY LAWSEAST BERLIN - East Germany took a major step toward c

The United States is expected to propose a substantial reduction in barriers to shipping high techno

The decline in the market for secondhand ships that occurred during the fourth quarter of 1989 did n

Container shipments through U.S. ports grew 6 percent in the first two months of this year, about th

Panalpina Inc., Humble, Texas, continues to operate as an ocean freight forwarder under the Federal

The Ports and Harbors Bureau of Japan's Transport Ministry says its new multibillion-dollar, long-te

US FARM GROUPS URGED TO BE ACTIVE IN EUROPEU.S. farm groups should take a more aggressive ro

U.S. business executives are worried that the United States will halt progress toward more favorable

United Airlines said it has received authority from the National Transportation Agency of Canada to

The U.S. dollar was mostly higher Thursday, except against the yen, which extended its technical ral

INVOICE RULE. Effective May 3, 1990, imports will be required to provide on commercial invoices the

CHINA REPORTS RISE IN URBAN JOBLESS RATEChina's urban unemployment rate rose to 2.6 percent

India can't seem to make up its mind about foreign investment. On the one hand, A.N. Varma,

Who would spend a weekend here listening to lectures on the "Anatomy of a Spemin" or "Sex and Death

The local American Chamber of Commerce is throwing its weight behind maintaining China's status as a

A former employee of Secaucus, N.J.-based Marine Transport Lines Inc. was found guilty Wednesday of

Shipping will be hampered and large containerships will have to schedule their sailings carefully be

A major U.S. ocean carrier is back in business on a Far East military trade route, but its battle wi

''We can't do that" was the initial reaction of Doug Thomas, Airborne Express' Washington, D.C., dis

There may be a plastic car in your future. But not if the steel industry has its way. Since