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A visiting congressional subcommittee wrapped up hearings earlier this week on a plebiscite that wou

The U.S. dollar declined against the yen Tuesday on fresh speculation that Japan may tighten credit,

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SHUTTLE PASSENGERS TO GET NEWSLETTERThe Pan Am Shuttle plans to distribute gratis copies of

Things aren't so genteel in the Old South these days. A feud is raging between the Port of R

US RICE GAINS CITED IF JAPAN EASES MARKETThe head of the U.S. Rice Millers Association said

US RETAIL SALES FELL 0.9 PERCENT IN FEBRUARYWeak auto sales in February pulled retail sales

Some famous American corporate logos are rapidly becoming household names in Europe, too, as U.S. co

With a stroke of the pen Tuesday, President Bush ended five years of crippling economic sanctions ag

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. has signed a two-year service contract with Euro-Gulf International to

MARSH SETS UP SHOP IN EAST BERLINMarsh & McLennan Inc. has established a new office in East

World Bank officials have been lax in enforcing internal rules that encourage farm aid recipients to

Equipment finance companies will have to expand the range of services they offer if they want to mee

A new report suggests ways bridges linking New York state and Canada can be made to handle more traf

Robert W. Crowley has resigned from Trans Freight Lines to form his own consulting firm, C.W. Consul

The U.S. international payments deficit declined to $20.5 billion in the fourth quarter last year, b

Major mailers say they will use Accelerated Reply Mail service extensively when the U.S. Postal Serv

ORGANIC PEROXIDE Witco Corp. said its Argus division would raise most organic peroxide price

Container traffic for the trans-Siberian railroad could be shipped from Scandinavia on a ferry servi

With additional steamship lines due to start calling at the Port of Tacoma later this year, the port

Compagnie Maritime Generale, or French Line, has added a fourth vessel to its round-the-world servic

Royal Dutch/Shell Group's Malaysian units will spend about M$5 billion (US$1.9 billion) on so-called

Towering domestic coffee prices, fueled by the speculation, uncertainty and unease over the economy,

VOLKSWAGEN TO PRODUCE CARS IN EAST GERMANYLEIPZIG, East Germany - West German carmaker Volks

Unemployed persons with AIDS would continue to be covered by private health insurance under legislat

CONSORTIUM GETS JOB FOR INDONESIAN PLANTSSTAMFORD, Conn. - The State Electricity Co. of Indo

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Financially troubled Wang Laboratories Inc. will sell subsidiary InteCom Inc., a maker of communicat

As expected, the Railway Retirement System and the Federal Employers Liability Act came under wither

The dock strike that crippled many British ports last summer cost Liverpool US$5.4 million, the port

Japanese manufacturers' output of industrial robots is expected to top $3.3 billion this year and re

Mon., Mar. 12, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

An easing of Cocom regulations is expected by this summer, but a dismantling of U.S. export controls

A group of skeptical state agriculture officials challenged U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills on

Noble Drilling Corp. said one of its subsidiaries received a letter of intentfrom Shell Petr

Bilspedition AB, the rapidly expanding Swedish trucking, forwarding and shipping group, is intereste

Top executives from the major shipping lines serving the North Atlantic are scheduled to meet today

American President Lines said it is opening new offices in Shanghai, Tianjin and Dalian in China.

H&M INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION INC. (Secaucus, N.J.) - Robert Oppelt was named director, internat

The policy cooperation of the Group of 7 industrialized countries remains effective, a high ranking