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US ENVOY SAYS LATINS WON'T BE FORGOTTENCARACAS, Venezuela - A special U.S. envoy has assured

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An Alaska judge Tuesday upheld state criminal charges against Joseph Hazelwood, skipper of the Exxon

Rising economic and political nervousness here is spurring a race to "the yellow and green," but the

Atlantic Container Line expects to save $14 million a year by buying three vessels and a half intere

House officials in Michigan have voted unanimously to roll back auto insurance rates by as much as 3

Two subsidized U.S.-flag carriers are seeking Maritime Administration approval to operate foreign-fl

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts is seeking a 78 percent rate increase for Medicare suppl

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. have formed an intermoda

BRAZIL'S SOYBEAN CROP SAID TO BE 75 PERCENT PLANTEDSAO PAULO, Brazil - Planting for Brazil's

EIGHT YEARS AGO Walter Marx and I were breaking bread a short distance from where we are doing so no

With the number of commercial jetliners that Boeing Commercial Airplanes builds each month already u

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Singmarine Industries Ltd., one of Singapore's go-getting shipyards, plans to spend some S$60 millio

The estate of a Danish seaman suffocated by poisonous gas seeping from a sewage holding tank aboard

Domestic steel producers voiced cautious hope Tuesday that the Bush administration will attain its g

Dec. 12, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Price increases continue to be posted for wholesale home heating oil. Posted prices have exc

Local distributors of U.S. computer-software maker Lotus Development Corp. are making the same boast

U.S. insurers and brokers are jousting for their piece of the European pie as moves towards democrac

A friend from Italy once confided to me that many people from his country needed someone to hate in

This Friday, A.H. Robins Co. becomes a part of American Home Products Corp. of New York. Thi

1604 (Dec. 12, 1989) Previous day - 1603 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Tue., Dec. 12, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

The Chemicals Products Marketplace brief headlined, "Benzoyl Chloride," which appeared on Page 7A of

Petrochemicals (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. said it will build a third plant to make polystyrene resin, usin

The U.S. Department of Agriculture paid out nearly $320 million, or more than one-third of its budge

The Agriculture Department's estimate in September that the 1990 U.S. wheat crop would total 2.6 bil

The offer to add the Port of Richmond, Va., to the stable of ports controlled by the state is off th

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KINTETSU TOKYO UNIT TO HANDLE PERISHABLESROSLYN HEIGHTS, N.Y. - Kintetsu World Express (USA)

United Parcel Service Co. and Emery Worldwide Airlines Inc. will each apply for the new all-cargo ai

Witco Corp., based in New York, said it has completed construction and begun operating a $14 million

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Authorities in Malaysia said over the weekend they have identified a coal deposit estimated at 200 m

The European Community's weekend summit in Strasbourg ended in a whimper and not a bang, but its out

The U.S. dollar was mixed on Monday in quiet trading. Dealers said the market appears to hav

AUSTRALIA'S WORMALD TO BUY GERMAN FIRMSYDNEY, Australia - Fire-protection and security group

The property/casualty industry is facing a year of price "stabilization and reassessment," in 1990,

Earl R. Pomeroy sank into a chair at one end of a deserted conference table one day last week and li