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Africa, mourning a "lost decade" of development, begins the 1990s fearful that political changes swe

Industry sources expect the tentative labor settlement at Pittston Coal Group Inc. to weaken coal pr

Romania is expected to rely heavily on Western technology and expertise to rebuild an economy shatte

PURCHASERS' INDEX ROSE TO 48 PERCENT IN DECEMBERThe nation's purchasing managers' index rose

Kuehne & Nagel AG, the world's largest freight forwarder, has a new management structure designed t

POTASSIUM ACID TARTRATE Pfizer Inc.'s specialty chemicals group will increase the price of p

STEPHEN E. McKITTRICK speaks admiringly of the airlines' impressive advances in cargo-handling and c

The Japanese economy heads into the 1990s riding a boom based on spending at home. Its fundamental s

Jan. 2, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

A trading company owned by Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega's former presidential candidate was a slush f

UNION PACIFIC TO SELL STAKE IN REALTY UNITBETHLEHEM, Pa. - Union Pacific Corp. has reached a

Fruit traffic to the Port of Philadelphia is suffering delays of up to five days because of the U.S.

Seventeen new ships will be introduced into the Australian merchant fleet by 1992, government offic

While the government draws up plans for a multibillion-dollar new airport and seaport complex, the c

The 100-year-old mine dumps which share Johannesburg's skyline with a forest of modern high-rises ar

A bitter turf war has put Canadian financial services deregulation in limbo. A long-awaited

A business trip unexpectedly takes you to Tokyo, and one night you find yourself in a remote part o

SUGAR TRADE HOUSES EYE STRATEGY IN BRAZILSAO PAULO, Brazil - In a continuing battle over the

Warmer temperatures have returned to Florida and Texas citrus growing areas during theNew Year's wee

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The U.S. business community is rushing to set its priorities for a prospective new trade agreement w

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Many of the nation's top regional trucking companies showed little or no business growth during the

The Coast Guard will delay the effective date of its drug and alcohol testing regulations, where the

Three years of double-digit economic growth appear to have persuaded South Koreans that anything les

PANAMA LOOTING TAKES TOLL ON PORTSPANAMA CITY, Panama - Looting that swept Panama after last

The Shipbuilders Council of America is sponsoring a Jan. 31 seminar that will take a close look at t

Waterfront employer and labor groups said the 1927 Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act was

There's not as much marketable coal in three key eastern Kentucky counties as generallyperceived, ac

The circular, paneled chambers of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals hardly seems the place to

The dollar will start 1990 with a bang, but it probably will weaken later in the year, currency ana

US COULD EXPORT MORE TO MEXICO, PHILIPPINESChanges in import regulations could increase expo

Out with the old and in with the new. Only for the property/casualty industry, many problems of the

Occidental Petroleum Corp. has settled a lawsuit with Venezuela. An article in ''Chemical Briefs," a

1592 (Dec. 29, 1989) Previous day - 1584 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Dec. 28, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

Stock in the Germany Fund Inc. rose for a third straight day last Thursday despite a warning that th

Government officials have outlined a trade program that they called a reversal of the policies that

ARGENTINA-PARAGUAY - $250 million from the Inter-American Development Bank to construct the Yacyreta

Brazil's monthly inflation rate hit a record 53.55 percent in December, the government statistics of