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STEP ON SENSITIVE POLITICAL TOES or produce Pablum; that appears to be the conundrum faced by drafte

An attempt to speed the flow of traffic on an important trucking artery has produced weaker-than-exp

BETHLEHEM STEEL TO SELL RAIL STAKELACKAWANNA, N.Y. - Bethlehem Steel Corp. has agreed to sel

For the week ended Jan. 6, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads, which is

It will be several weeks before all the barges now blocking navigation on the Monongehela River are

The president of a large railroad union rejected an industry call to negotiate changes in how injure

ARGENTINE REACTOR IS BACK IN SERVICEBUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Atucha 1, Latin America's firs

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PERSONAL-INJURY FIRM'S TOP LAWYERS INDICTEDThe head of what was once one of the nation's lar

New-issue, tax-exempt municipal bond volume is expected to rise by 4 percent to $120.6 billion this

More than 75 years after the ill-fated luxury liner Titanic failed to make it across the Atlantic on

SCOR (New York) - John T. Andrews has been named senior vice president and general counsel of SCOR U

Lloyd's of London expressed confidence it could overcome opposition from some of its members to remo

Sembawang Shipyard Ltd. is undertaking a substantial financial restructuring to raise cash for furth

The California Fourth District Court of Appeal (Division 3 in Orange County) has refused to overturn

Wheat exports probably will drop in the coming months, in part because the government may be less wi

The widow of historical shipbuilder Nicholas Benton has filed a $29 million negligence suit against

Georgia's insurance commissioner favors a verbal threshold to limit the number of automobile acciden

The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey awarded a record $105 million in contracts last year to

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. has named John W. Murray manager of operations for its mid-Atlantic divisi

A minority-owned industrial marine cleaning service will establish the first truck and container ste

PRICES OF OCEAN FREIGHT FUTURES CONTRACTS moved up last week to near the previous highs set in recen

An Environmental Protection Agency review of toxic industrial releases is reviving concerns that per

Waterman Steamship Corp. is seeking Maritime Administration permission to extend for five years a su

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Ethical questions have been raised because New York state's departing top insurance regulator will j

U.S. businesses operating here are welcoming the lifting of martial law as a symbolic gesture, but t

By the end of this year, Yugoslavia plans to set up international financial and commodity exchanges

REGIONAL BLOCS Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: End of an Era? Jan. 23. Portland, Ore. Conta

Japanese influence on the American workplace and economy will increase substantially in the 1990s, a

Two days of talks on opening this country's market for imported beef went nowhere, and South Korea a

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

Bank of Japan Governor Yasushi Mieno said that a weak yen is a major threat todomestic price stabili

Japan's Meiji Mutual Life has bought a 1 percent share in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, making it

UK'S FERRANTI BLAMES US ARMS UNIT FOR LOSSBritish defense group Ferranti International Signa

FREE SPENDING BY POLITICIANS IN THE 1970s was largely responsible for the inflation that swelled to

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

When a provision giving the president the power to block foreign takeovers made its way into the 198

WEST GERMANY PROBES BAYER AG SALE TO IRANCOLOGNE, West Germany - The West German government

COPPER PRICES RESPONDED apathetically to Bougainville Copper's recent announcement that itwas mothba