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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

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

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

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

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

NEW YORK OIL HEATING ASSOCIATION (New York) - Dennis Griesing resigned as executive vice president,

Michigan gasoline prices soared for a second consecutive week, with prices now generally up as much

Heavy buying of American wheat by the Soviet Union and China coupled with drought-reduced supplies c

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Despite a drop in plastics exports to China since the Tiananmen Square crackdown last June, U.S. pla

About 2,000 union dockworkers will vote Friday on a labor contract extension at the Port of Baltimor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Details of a new $70 million cargo complex for Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirat

The nation's two largest airlines are raising most cargo rates to help offset surging jet fuel costs

Ingram Coal Co., a major exporter of coal via terminals on the Lower Mississippi River, put its mini

JAPANESE BEEF QUOTA SET AT 167,000 TONSJapan will import 167,000 metric tons of beef for gen

Heavier fines for careless barge operators might be necessary, a general with the U.S. Army Corps of

General Motors Corp. said Friday it will offer early retirement incentives, limit new hiring and red

1658 (Jan. 12, 1990) Previous day - 1655 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

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

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

Twelve members of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange were elected last week to the exchange's board of

Investment feast or premium famine for insurers in 1989? The numbers can be confusing. The p

SANTA FE RAILWAY STARTS ST. LOUIS SERVICEThe Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway has begun

Government support for proposals to expand subsidies to U.S. shipping companies is prompting Dock Ex

Increased general cargo traffic at the Port of Amsterdam helped the port's overall cargo volume duri

An obscure federal agency that insures pensions for one-third of America's workers is struggling und

Posted home heating oil prices dropped further Thursday, and even broke through the 80-cent-a-gallon

FIVE NJ INSURERS FINED FOR VIOLATING LAWSTRENTON, N.J. - Five insurance companies, including

Glendon Stewart, a senior executive of the Canadian Coast Guard on the west coast, was appointed pre

Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd., the highly profitable principal air carrier of the colony, is about to

When the general cargo ship Monterrey docked at Philadelphia Thursday, its arrival marked the beginn