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The Italian government has pledged to curb public spending following the realignments of the lira wi

BRITISH GAS TO LAUNCH US DRILLING VENTURESBritish Gas PLC is to launch its first exploration

Shipbuilding orders received by South Korean yards increased 14 percent last year to 147 vessels tot

Confidential International Cocoa Organization documents set out four scenarios for cocoa output and

Workers across the country have come to rely on employers' health care assurances as entitlements ra

JACKSONVILLE PORT AUTHORITY (Jacksonville, Fla.) - Dan Donaldson was hired as risk manager for the m

The Arthur Kill waterway, which had been closed since Wednesday due to a leak in an Exxon heating oi

FERRUZZI GROUP REALIGNS US OPERATIONFerruzzi Group announced the realignment of its New Orle

Compagnie Generale Maritime, Atlantic Container Line and Hapag-Lloyd AG plan to remove the Mexican

A forklift truck loaded with an ultrasonic cardiograph moves through a big warehouse, down a long co

The linked ports of Bremen and Bremerhaven posted a combined 5.4 percent increase in volume last yea

The last time Edwin F. Hale and Steven T. Jones worked together, the two were teen-age kitchen boys

Tom Olsen is the country manager in Bangkok, Thailand, for American President Lines Ltd. Mr.

Two new videotapes are available from Rockwell International Corp.'s Automotive Operations to provid

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has predicted average annual growth in its cargo business of 8.5 percent up

Jan. 8, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Hobbled byenvironmentalist's protests against methanol imports, Brazil's struggle against a looming

Eurotunnel, the English-French consortium building the first tunnel across the English Channel, will

TIN PRODUCERS TO MEET TO FIX EXPORT QUOTASKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The seven-member Associat

Life insurance companies from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania were granted blanket approval Monday

Prices for spot delivery frozen concentrated orange juice futures skyrocketed Monday - more than two

A Chinese central bank official said Monday the World Bank was actively studying a resumption of loa

Oil and shipping industry officials Monday dismissed as improbable a report by the state of Alaska

The U.S. dollar declined broadly Monday on relentless demand for the deutsche mark, as the U.S. prim

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

The unemployment rate dropped 1.5 percentage points in New Jersey last month, while going up slightl

The United Steelworkers of America lost nearly half of its members in the 1980s, and it faces a diff

UNPAID CONSUMER CREDIT HITS $4.24 BILLIONU.S. consumers took on $4.24 billion more in consum

BELT'S WHARF WAREHOUSE INC. (Baltimore) - David Baird was named vice president and will lookto expan

The Supreme Court let stand Monday a ruling that cordless telephones fall outside the constitutional

Panama Canal workers have asked their new government to act quickly to solvefinancial and le

About 300 workers at Avondale Industries Inc. received pink slips Friday in the first of what may be

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U.S. sugar losses stemming from last month's severe freeze in Texas and Florida are likely to total

Parts of Comecon are obsolete and need radical changes, but the Soviet Union opposes disbanding the

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* Albert L. Kraus - Markets and Money 3A * Import Quota Watch 4A* Edwin Unsworth - Europe Vi

Flexible work schedules will become more commonplace during the 1990s, along with job sharing and wo

The Rotterdam Energy Futures Exchange, already suffering from falling trade volume, faces the diffic

Saudi Arabian Oil Co. announced Sunday the discovery of an oil and natural gas field, the third fin