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Washington's delegation under Trade Representative Carla Hills remained odd man out during Monday's

Texas lawmakers will meet today in their third attempt this year to fix the state's deteriorating wo

QATAR SETS ITS SIGHTS ON ALUMINUM SMELTERDOHA, Qatar - Qatar plans to produce 193,000 metric

HOECHST CELANESE FORMS MEXICAN UNITHoechst Celanese Corp. of Chatham, N.J., has formed a sub

FOXBORO PLANS MOVE TO MASSACHUSETTS SITENORWALK, Conn. - Foxboro Co. says it will move its N

A federal advisory panel said Monday it has approved evacuation plans for Massachusetts communities

1989: Bulgaria. Todor Zhivkov resigns as East Europe's longest-serving communist leader after 35 yea

ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. of Switzerland announced Monday that it will acquire Combustion Engineeri

Asia will be the most dynamic region of the world for the next quarter- century, but Americans and E

Indonesia's state energy monopoly Pertamina over the weekend announced five more oil contracts with

Drug traffickers may be using Philadelphia as a staging point for moving illegal drugs into New York

Universal Maritime Services Corp. is adding a few acres of container storage to its Port Newark, N.J

West German employers' enthusiastic welcome for the flood of East German refugees may not be shared

A Teamsters local president who has been endorsed for the national union's presidency said further r

WE ARE THE WORLD, we are the wired. A mixture of hype, need and ongoing bureaucratic foundat

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A Liberty Maritime Corp. vessel won the bidding on the latest offering of relief aid to Poland, as t

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' crude oil production rose to 23.5 million barrels a d

The U.S. dollar drifted lower Monday against major foreign currencies, especially against the deutsc

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

Tohoku Electric Power Co., a Japanese utility serving the northeastern region of the main island of

OCTOBER RETAIL SALES SEEN FALLING NEARLY 1 PERCENTU.S. retail sales for October are expected

Nov. 13, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Cargo volume at the Port of Mobile rose almost 20 percent to 37.3 million tons in the fiscal year en

The government is suing the owners of a Greek freighter that ran aground on a fragile coral reef in

The House has finished work on a $3.4 billion spending bill for the Coast Guard in fiscal year 1990.

Nov. 13, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey approved a 10-year lease for an importer of prefabrica

The government will seek U.S. approval to borrow against next year's quota on certain textile and ga

Air Canada is considering whether to retain its large investment in GPA Inc., the large airplane lea

Questions have arisen over the Indonesian government's reported plans to part-privatize the national

Mon., Nov. 13, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Sea Containers Ltd. said Monday it has agreed to sell its fleet of dry cargo containers plus a porti

The 45-member property insurance pool known as the Industrial Risk Insurers, or IRI, has been plague

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

A research and advance procurement program for a fast military sealift vessel will get under way onc

GRAND METROPOLITAN FOOD SECTOR (Minneapolis) - Russell J. Bragg was named chairman and chief executi

GTE Corp. is revamping the distribution network of its U.S. Lighting Group. Over the next ye

HOUSE DEMOCRATS BACK SEAFOOD INSPECTIONThe absence of federal seafood inspection puts U.S. f

Datafax, a new global facsimile-delivered edition of The Journal of Commerce, will be launched today