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A Liberian tanker that grounded Monday morning must unload some of its nearly 500,000 barrels of cru

The British Coal Corp. agreed to three-year supply contracts with the U.K.'s two soon-to-be-private

The major U.S.-based automobile makers reported U.S. car sales off 18 percent for Nov. 21 to 30, as

The United States will cut the ceiling on Japan's share of the U.S. steel import market through Marc

Some of the businesses using the Port of Richmond, Va., want to form an advisory board to boost cus

The third mate who was at the controls of the Exxon Valdez supertanker when it ran aground off Alask

The first berth of a new terminal at Hong Kong's main containerport has come into operation more tha

The Export-Import Bank is waiting for a White House finding that could lead to its financing U.S. ex

Several insurance companies are expected to raise objections Friday at a state Insurance Department

TRUCKING GROUP BACKS TEEN DRIVING PROGRAMThe American Trucking Associations has joined Progr

The news from the Port of Baltimore is not entirely bad these days. Yes, a strike by longsho

Amid muttering by stockholders, Fruehauf Corp. ended a tortuous odyssey Nov. 29, a journey that carr

International Business Machines Corp. announced Tuesday it would cut 10,000 U.S. jobs without layoff

RULING OPENS UNIONS TO SUITS BY WORKERSThe Supreme Court Tuesday made it easier for workers

THE BIG QUESTION FOR 1990 seems to be whether the weak manufacturing sector of the economy will drag

While the Bush administration has vowed to push for reform of the nation's product liability laws, a

USAir is turning its schedules upside down in hopes of reducing its chronic flight delays. T

EC MINISTERS APPROVE AIR FARE PROPOSALBRUSSELS, Belgium - The 12 European Community transpor

Hyundai Corp. will take part in oil exploration in U.S. offshore and onshore basins with Phillips Pe

HONECKER UNDER ARREST IN EAST GERMANYFormer leader Erich Honecker and other top officials we

The makers of Combat and Raid have locked antennae over the lucrative cockroach-killing market, trad

A shipment of European steel was delayed at the port in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a few months ago when

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COMBUSTION ENGINEERING GETS NOD ON EXPANSIONCombustion Engineering Inc. said it was awarded

Amid fierce competition for foreign customers, Japanese commodities futures clearinghouses are offer

Economists sometimes call it the "cows on the common" problem. When each town in New England

The United States should increase its concessionary export financing to boost U.S. competitiveness i

A new voluntary restraint agreement between Brazil and the United States would boost Brazilian steel

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Five top Soviet food-buying officials will be sending a letter sometime in the next week or so to U.

Westronix Inc. has completed its acquisition of Rosenbalm Aviation Inc. for approximately $55 millio

NON-COMMUNIST OUTPUT OF OIL EQUALS '79 PEAKOil production in the non-communist world is back

Dec. 5, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

FRENCH COCOA GROUP EXPELS PHIBROAssociation Francaise du Commerce des Cacaos, the French coc

Sea-Land Service Inc. has unveiled a new computerized tracking system that helps keep tabs on wines

Voter Revolt leader and consumerist Harvey Rosenfield is calling for a California ballot drive aimed

The U.S. dollar drifted lower except versus the yen in very thin trading Tuesday. Dealers sa

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

TAIWAN TRADE SURPLUS WIDENED IN 1989TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's trade surplus widened to US$12

Declaring that no nation can monopolize commercial jet transport technology for long, a senior execu