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Northwest Airlines' new owners should be able to repay the carrier's $3.1 billion debt with cash fro

Many Illinois insurers are fearful that Gov. James Thompson will sign a bill that would repeal a ban

This highly industrialized island will face a major environmental crisis if its government doesn't s

Once-burgeoning trade relations between South Korea and China have hit a brick wall since the June

The U.S. dollar rose broadly Wednesday on a combination of technical factors and personal income dat

As the Sept. 18 deadline draws near for interest payments of some $2 billion to foreign creditor ban

After Taiwan's parliamentary elections in December, government investigators are expected to heat up

Israel plans to sell a 50 percent stake in El Al, the national airline, the government announced on

COPPER MINE WORKERS IN CHILE VOTE TO STRIKESANTIAGO, Chile - Workers at the Chilean Copper C

Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke said Wednesday that domestic airline pilots could expect signifi

Norwegian streets may not be paved with gold but one highway unwittingly was constructed right on to

Members of the London Metal Exchange are threatening to cease dealing on behalf of American clients

New Zealand Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer said Sunday that the New Zealand and Australian economies

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The environmental group Greenpeace Tuesday asked Congress to halt the legal export of agricultural p

Major shippers are protesting next month's planned rate increase by truck lines in the Middle Atlant

The U.S. dollar dropped sharply Tuesday in technical trading, with dealers unable to cite specific f

Occidental Chemical Corp. of Dallas and Marubeni Corp. of Tokyo, a large Japanese trading company, h

The Supreme Court will decide during its next term whether railroad workers while loading coal from

The South Carolina State Ports Authority filed a $1.25 million suit against Del Monte Tropical Fruit

Electric utilities will have to build at least twice as much generating capacity in the coming decad

The Hungarian government will revalue the forint against the convertible ruble, the unit used for co

Consolidated results measuring the property/casualty industry's performance during the first half of

Compagnie Generale Maritime, the largest French shipping line, and Nedlloyd Lines BV of Rotterdam, t

NY TRUCK ACCIDENT CAUSES MAJOR TIE-UPSGetting in and out of New York City was a nightmare fo

US GIVES GUATEMALA $69 MILLION IN AIDThe United States will give Guatemala $69 million in ai

Sex education took decades to reach Isidoro Martinez, and when it did, it was too late. On t

HEARINGS ARE HELD ON TUG PACT PROPOSALThe National Labor Relations Board is holding hearings

More U.S. aircraft will be flying with South Korean parts as a result of two deals announced separat

A new "Silk Road" linking China and the Soviet Union by 1992 will boost East-West trade and cut the

The Port of San Francisco has awarded a $200,000 contract to Cresap Management Consultants to prepar

MITSUI O.S.K. LINES (AMERICA) INC. (New York) - Masayuki Hirakawa was named president in the company

NCR Corp. is continuing its steamroller-style assault on local markets for automatic teller machines

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CME PORK BELLIES POST LIMIT GAINS AT CLOSEPork belly futures closed up the 200-point daily l

(First in a special series of columns devoted to an overview of the air freight forwarding industry

Investigators looking into the nation's worst oil spill and parties to litigation arising from it ha

Foreign producers are seeing some of the bloom fade from the lucrative U.S. oats market as American

NORTHWEST CUTS FARES ON FLIGHTS TO EUROPEEAGAN, Minn. - Northwest Airlines is cutting fares

Soviet officials said a newly discovered natural gas field in the Kara Sea could be the largest in t