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Daimler-Benz, West Germany's largest company, soon may become bigger still. The Stuttgart-ba

The Soviet Union, striving to improve its overall transport system, is actively beefing up its inter

MACHINE TOOL ORDERS SLUMPED 25 PERCENT IN JULYNew orders for U.S.-built machine tools plunge

The United States intends to use crop-export subsidies to stay competitive in world commodity market

Burlington Northern Railroad Co.'s efforts to penetrate eastern utility markets have paid off this y

A European Community leader Friday told Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki he could count on t

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Seven hospitals in Massachusetts agreed to lower rates charged private insurers after lue Cross-Blue

West Germany's 1976 Co-Determination Act covers joint-stock companies, limited partnership companies

REGIONAL BLOCS Doing Business in Israel: Meeting the Challenge of 1992. Sept. 11. Short<

International Business Machines Corp. has formed a joint venture with a Singapore government-backed

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

AIRCLAIMS GROUP (Heathrow Airport, London) - Michael A. Conron was appointed president and chief exe

The nation's largest proposed harbor project - a $319 million expansion of the Houston Ship Channel

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

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Knight-Ridder Inc. announced at the weekend that Alvah H. Chapman Jr., chairman since 1982, will st

It may be premature to predict a short life for the London Futures and Options Exchange's - also kno

THE AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE reported a few days ago that the United States imported more than 5

NEW FREIGHTLINER TRUCK KNOWN AS 'SLEEPER CAB'PORTLAND, Ore. - Freightliner Corp.'s new Class

OPEC HEADS OF STATE EXPECTED TO MEETHeads of state of at least several members of the Organi

Police in Malaysia are investigating an alleged fraud that may have cost an insurance company 3 mill

TAIWAN NOT DUMPING MARTIAL ARTS UNIFORMSThe International Trade Commission reversed itself l

COCOA FUTURES SET NEW CONTRACT LOWSCocoa futures slumped to post a new set of contract lows

Officials at Phillips 66 Co. are expected to announce how long its Houston petrochemical plant will

For Margaret Thatcher, Britain's feisty prime minister, standing alone in opposition to the leaders

In the midst of a major crisis in the state's health-care system, the president of Blue Cross and Bl

CHAO WILL PRESENT AOTOS AWARDSU.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao will prese

The owner of a barge arrested earlier this month in New York harbor had two other barges and two tug

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Thailand is the latest Southeast Asian nation to consider using nuclear energy as a way to ensure an

Benny Ng was trim, in uniform and worried about his image when he stopped for a beer in the officers

An electric utility says the amount of money is trivial, but the Connecticut Independent Petroleum A

Williams Natural Gas Co., an interstate natural gas pipeline, is between a rock and a hard place.

Air cargo tends to be made up of disproportionately high-value, lighter- weight goods. The p

South Korean exporters are looking to Europe for a secure market as they diversify away from the Uni

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FEDNAV LTD. (Montreal) - Ted H. Winter was named executive vice president and chief operating office

The Maritime Administration has sold its rights to a sunken Liberty ship to Hugh O'Neill and Brian H

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