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Paccar Inc. took the lead in the heavy industry last month as traditional front-runner Navistar Inte

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors said it plans to challenge a federal law that requires random

British Airways PLC and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines have taken a major step forward in their attempts t

Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov Wednesday urged members of the Soviet- led trading group Comec

Business executives visiting France for up to three months need not obtain a visa, contrary to what

In a new attempt to regain more control of the economy, China announced Wednesday it will take a gre

SOUTH KOREA PLANS TO DEVALUE WON BY 3 PERCENTSEOUL, South Korea - South Korean government wi

The main terminal at Groton-New London Airport must triple in size if it is going to meet demand dur

A forfait transaction involves a bank buying an exporter's trade receivables. The bank becomes the p

During the past five years, the U.S. Customs Service has resorted to lengthy audits, arbitrary rulin

The label "degradable" is appearing on plastic products from trash bags to diapers, but environmenta

NYK LINE TO OPEN AN OFFICE IN BOSTONNippon Yusen Kaisha, or NYK Line, is opening a Boston of

The Federal Maritime Commission is set to start a series of audits of various port agreements with t

With communist rule on its way out in Czechoslovakia, the debate has begun on how to undo the damage

SCHEDULING PROBLEMS POSTPONE COFFEE TALKSA meeting of Central American coffee producers set

"We got 90 seconds on the evening news with Dan Rather," said Fred Kayden, refering to his well-publ

AIR CONTROLLER STRIKE DISRUPTS ROME TRAFFICMore than 25 flights were canceled and planes arr

Sunken gold treasure draws a crowd. In a federal court in Norfolk, Va., a crowd of litigants

This Southeast Asian nation is a safe haven for foreign investment despite its recent rout of a move

The London insurance market has become an important beneficiary of the improvement in East-West Euro

Atlantic Container Line has assigned four top executives to look at key areas in which the ocean car

A panel of economists at the University of Chicago has predicted that the export boom that has fuele

1603 (Dec. 13, 1989) Previous day - 1604 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

West German wholesale prices fell 0.4 percent in November from October,because of cheaper no

A shortage of funds has forced the new National Front coalition government to scrap plans for a subw

BULGARIAN COMMUNISTS EXPEL 3 FROM PARTYSOFIA, Bulgaria - The Communist Party Wednesday expel

Norwegian oil company Norsk Hydro raised its estimate of reserves at the Oseberg oil field to 1.46 b

A former president of the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association has died. Edwin N. Altman

Metallgesellschaft AG, a West German metal mining and trading company, forecast lower prices for cop

The U.S. dollar rebounded Wednesday from lower levels on technical factors and on the belief that th

Sea-Land Service Inc., in a major restructuring of its corporate and divisional staff, Wednesday na

US, JAPAN DISCUSS CONSTRUCTION STANDARDSJapan and the United States opened two days of trade

Western nations have since July pledged or provided emergency food aid for Poland totaling 358.6 mil

The Canadian government has approved bids by two competing foreign groups to buy Connaught BioScienc

A local political controversy is glowing in Oakland over a shipment of nuclear material scheduled to

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is studying the effect the upheaval in Eastern Eur

Primary inventories of distillate fuel oil, used for home heating and gasoline, were substantially d

A little bit of history may be made this weekend if plans to divert one of the world's largest conta

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

COMPANY PROFITS LIKELY TO RISE IN JAPAN IN '90Japanese companies' pretax profits will grow i