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The International Monetary Fund will not dip into funds earmarked for Africa to support economic ref

One of the better-kept secrets of the diamond trade is the key role that India has assumed in supply

Africa's top entrepreneurs launched a campaign this week to polish their continent's business image,

The Port of San Francisco has signed five-year marine terminal agreements with two additional tenant

Rex Millhollon says it is a fact of life for sugarcane growers that every few years a cold spell com

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

Lawmakers say the Coast Guard's announced restoration of a system of monitoring vessel movements and

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The National Knitwear & Sportswear Association is gloating over a Commerce Department decision to op

Several subsidized carriers are asking the Maritime Administration for permission to operate foreign

A return to seasonal weather in late March stalled statewide home heating oil price reductions durin

NORTH AMERICA Agro Expo. March 29-April 1. Guadalajara, Mexico. Agriculture. Contact Patrici

Japanese government inspectors have found residue of the synthetic anti- bacterial "sulfa-methazine"

Animal studies suggest substances in soybeans may protect against the development of breast cancer,

European Community agreement on a farm price package is given an even change of passing, an EC agri

Chandris Inc. said its cruise ship, the Victoria, will call at the Port of London next year on its t

The Commerce Department plans to announce next month a significant easing of strategic controls on e

This week: NEW ENGLAND: BOSTON EDISON CO., BOSTON MID-ATLANTIC: DELMARVA POWER CO., WILMINGT

Acid rain legislation supported by President Bush and a group of senate leaders will bring a storm o

A push to cut rates and simplify matters for military traffic managers is what led to Emery Worldwid

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, which will end its joint operating agreement with Nippon Yusen Kaisha in the Pa

"It's like having a bomb on board," mused Lennart Rudblom, general manager at Gadelius Sunrod AB, as

The chairman of Cray Research Inc., the leading U.S. supercomputer maker, said Tuesday an agreement

After a shared victory in Hungary's first free multiparty elections in 45 years, the two main opposi

A narrow ribbon of blacktop road runs west along the Gulf of Mexico into Apalachicola, a once-busy c

Copper prices were sharply lower Tuesday on long liquidation ahead of today's expiring March 1990 fu

Grain is the great question mark, as Great Lakes carriers struggle to reboundfrom last year'

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Legislation aimed at preventing truckers and railroads from using the same equipment to haul food in

CONRAIL STOCK PLAN AIDS NON-UNION EMPLOYEESConsolidated Rail Corp. has completed the establi

The U.S. dollar continued moving upward against the yen and the deutsche mark Tuesday, but declined

The rand slipped against most currencies Tuesday as dealers reeled from Monday's disastrous slide in

The European Community welcomes South Korean advances in Eastern Europe that could help bring about

Mar. 27, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Two containership lines this week are carrying seed corn bound for the Soviet Union as part of a mas

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Strikes and political turmoil in the Soviet Union have cut deeply into energy and industrial output,

The Latin American Energy Organization is proposing to build a long-distance natural gas pipeline to

American Airlines, a significant factor in the air cargo field, no longer operates freighter aircraf

JAPAN TO BUILD MISSILES UNDER US LICENSEJapan and the United States have implemented an agre