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Gasoline marketers, citing sparse insurance availability, have asked the federal Environmental Prote

Gov. Mario M. Cuomo has proposed to subsidize health insurance for about 700,000 children not now co

Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, has leveled criticism at "pension raiding" by corporations that term

Union des Assurances de Paris, or UAP, and Compagnie Generale des Eaux have acquired Spanish emergen

LOBSTER BOAT OWNER CHARGED IN SINKINGThe owner of a lobster boat missing since last November

Australia's FAI Insurances has declined to rule out the possibility of a complete takeover of U.S. i

BOLIVIA - $20 million from the World Bank's International Development Association for basic health c

US, S. KOREA TO FORM COOPERATION COUNCILThe U.S. and South Korean governments have agreed to

East German Premier Hans Modrow, who is expected to be ousted in coming elections, ended his summit

VW BACKS EC QUOTAS ON JAPANESE AUTOSThe European Community should establish quotas on Japane

After an almost maddening pre-Christmas rush, business has finally slowed down for Roy Hagel and his

Western companies would do better to steer clear of joint ventures with counterparts in Eastern Euro

The Antillean Parliament is enacting into law a resolution that will make it difficult to launder mo

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

The United States and the Soviet Union will start "soon" to negotiate a new bilateral tax treaty, Yu

PERRIER TO WITHDRAW DISTRIBUTION WORLDWIDEThe president of Perrier Wednesday announced the c

America's proposed changes in world textile trade would help countries like India push exports to th

The U.S. dollar drifted lower Wednesday, particularly against the deutsche mark, in a quiet market.<

Standard and Poor's Corp. downgraded the debt of Mitsui Bank Ltd. and its related entities, but affi

POLAND BEGINS TALKS ON EASING DEBT BURDENPoland began talks with its Western creditors here

Japan's overall trade surplus plunged radically in January for the ninth consecutive month, Finance

UK INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT FELL 0.6 PERCENT IN DECEMBERU.K. seasonally adjusted industrial product

Wed., Feb. 14, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Foreign debt negotiators from five developing countries will meet in Caracas Feb. 23-24 to discuss s

* Trading With Netherlands Antilles 4A * Tom Connors - Washington 8A* Paccar Surpasses Navis

BUSINESS INVENTORIES FELL 0.2 PERCENT IN DECEMBERU.S. business inventories slid 0.2 percent

The first round of trade talks between U.S. and Soviet negotiators ended with mutual confidence that

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Major steamship lines plying the waters between north Europe and the United States are putting toge

U.S. importers and retailers are accusing the Bush administration of speaking with a forked tongue i

Hong Kong watches could soon be marked: "Made in Switzerland." Hong Kong manufacturers are p

The Federal Aviation Administration is taking unprecedented steps to ensure interception of suspicio

Having been burned once by major league baseball owners during the 1981 players strike, insurers are

The paper industry Tuesday announced it is setting a goal of 40 percent paper recycling by 1995.

The rapid decline of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union had an unexpected result, in

International Business Machines Corp. said it has become the first company to start pilot production

RETAIL SALES CLIMBED 1.6 PERCENT DURING JANUARYHigher auto sales in January helped push reta

The life insurance industry said a Georgia House bill that would require companies to notify the ins

Milliman & Robertson Inc., one of the nation's largest firms of actuaries and employee benefits cons

An insurance agents trade group is offering the latest threat to a Massachusetts state Insurance Div