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PIONEER LIFE ACQUIRES MANHATTAN NATIONALROCKFORD, Ill. - Pioneer Life Insurance Co. of Illin

Venezuela, which recently agreed to buy the 50 percent of Citgo Petroleum Corp. that it did not alre

BEET SUGAR OUTPUT UP IN WEST GERMANYFRANKFURT, West Germany - West German beet sugar product

The World Bank plans to float soon a $1.5 billion bond issue to be underwritten and distributed simu

Kuwait, a major oil producer already heavily involved in refining and marketing activities in Europe

Virgin Atlantic Airways is considering setting up its own cargo terminal at Los Angeles Internationa

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A PARTICULARLY EGREGIOUS example of sophistry came from the International Association of Machinists

1619 (Jan. 5, 1990) Previous day - 1609 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

The main containerport of the Philippines is installing new dock equipment and advancing delivery of

TAIWAN INFLATION RATE PUT AT 4.41 PERCENT IN 1989TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's inflation rate ac

The Bush administration's long-touted national transportation policy is being largely dismantled by

WATERMAN TAKES OVER HOUSTON AGENT'S DUTIESWaterman Steamship Corp. has taken over the duties

Maersk Line Ltd., Madison, N.J., was picked for contract work on a Navy anti- submarine project even

Quantum Pharmics Ltd., the scandal-plagued generic drug subsidiary of American Home Products Corp.,

The Department of Transportation favors retaining both the 1984 Shipping Act's antitrust exemption f

EUROPEAN CEREAL GROUP SEEN AT RECORD BY 1995BRUSSELS, Belgium - The EC cereal crop may incre

Federal appeals courts handed freight shippers two important victories in the ongoing dispute over n

WALL STREET RESTORES MASSPORT CREDIT RATINGOfficials of Standard & Poor's Ratings Group in N

SONO-TEK CORP. MOVES INTO JAPANESE MARKETSono-Tek Corp. said it entered into an agreement wi

HYUNDAI MOTOR AMERICA (Fountain Valley, Calif.) - Rodney E. "Rod" Hayden was named executive vice pr

U.S. companies in Panama are girding for an uphill struggle as Panamanians call for the private sect

Foreign exchange deposits are increasing and trading companies are delaying export settlements on ex

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

The Bush administration considered but rejected the idea of proposing new taxes on various materials

THE OCEAN FREIGHT FUTURES MARKET last week signaled that charter rates should be firming again in th

The Tennessee Valley Authority said it bought only 4,500 tons of coal under one contract in its last

Pilots at United Parcel Service Inc. voted themselves out of one union and into a new one last week,

Consumers binged in the 1980s, indulging themselves with everything from fancy gourmet foods to elec

EMERY WORLDWIDE (Palo Alto, Calif.) - Peter D. Boulais was named vice president of sales. He was vic

The Iron Curtain has come down, and now a factory here is working to launder it. Church & Dw

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE UNCHANGED LAST MONTHThe unemployment rate was unchanged in December from t

VIETNAM SAYS WEST DELAYS NEEDED AIDHANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam, facing a major cutback in loans

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When passengers check in for Northwest Airlines flights here in the South Wing of the New Tokyo Inte

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines will move into its own private-use container terminal at the Port of Oakland on

Chicago Board of Trade officials berated the proposed 12-month ban on dual trading that emerged from

An extended outage at Exxon Chemical Co.'s Baton Rouge complex has been overshadowed byproduction sh

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

These loans by the Inter-American Development Bank were announced recently: BRAZIL - $2 mill