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TAIWAN POLICE ARREST ILLEGAL BANK EMPLOYEESTAIPEI, Taiwan - The head of one of Taiwan's larg

Mon., April 16, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

Ronni Nass frets that the emotional debate over U.S. policy toward China could end up costing her co

MIDWAY WILL INCREASE SERVICE FROM CHICAGOCHICAGO - Midway Airlines will increase service fro

Paul and Robert Bedoukian made their first million duplicating scents like fresh-cut grass. They hop

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GORBACHEV AIDES SEEK QUICK ECONOMIC ACTIONSenior advisers to President Mikhail S. Gorbachev

Major U.S. oil companies wrote off $2.8 billion in special environmental charges last year, but indu

The U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement has bolstered cross-border trade, but at a cost to shippers.

TOO MUCH HYPE can do more harm than good. Overpraising a technology can do damage. And elect

McGraw-Hill Inc. will coordinate the operations of its two regional customs brokers before expanding

China's most important trade fair kicked off its two-week spring run with a reported initial increas

Richard Nixon was making a political comeback, Carl Yastrzemski was making plays in left field for t

IF THE NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE can forecast good weather, as it did for ceremonies in southern

Japanese investors have been lured into the French financial markets recently by prospects of some o

Roadway Express Inc. breached the barriers protecting the Mexican transportation market this week by

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British Petroleum PLC signed a contract Monday for exploration in China's northern Bohai Bay, China

Federal Express wants the world to know that it wasn't beaten out by Airborne Express for the world'

GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD (Detroit) - Jack Vast-Binder was promoted to director of personnel. He'

ITEL DISTRIBUTION ADDS TO WAREHOUSE NETWORKItel Distribution Systems has added Kansas City,

When corporate benefit managers talk about containing health-care costs, they measure success in mod

International Business Machines Corp. said Monday its earnings rose to $1.04 billion in the first qu

The first of several dredges that will deepen the Port of Grays Harbor has begun scooping mud from t

The Iran-Iraq war, the Exxon Valdez oil spill and an international credit squeeze are unlikely ingre

U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills Monday endorsed the creation of a new global trading organizat

SUMMA TO DISTRIBUTE PRODUCTS FOR PARKERCOSTA MESA, Calif. - Parker Automotive Corp., of Cost

Apr. 16, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

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Apr. 12, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

A proposal to create a nationwide computer system for tracking hazardous materials shipments is crea

Peter Rose recalls a night on an island in Hong Kong when he and a few other air freight forwarders

AIR MIDWEST INC. flew 14.7 million revenue passenger-miles in March, 4.6 percent lower than the 15.4

GOVERNMENT SUES EXXON OVER FINESNEWARK, N.J. - The federal government is suing Exxon Corp. f

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index was 0.4 points higher to 104.0 for the week and on Fr

Freightliner Corp. of Portland, Ore., outsold all other nameplates in March and threatened to pass N

WASHINGTON - For the week ended April 7, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railro