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Cocaine and high explosives may soon have more in common than the element of danger. Officia

There was a good deal of skepticism in the executive suites of U.S. shipping lines last week.

Aug. 18, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Secretary-General Subroto, in a bid to stop cheating b

AIR INTER IN FRANCE PLACES ENGINE ORDEREVENDALE, Ohio - Air Inter, the French domestic airli

Investor Harold Simmons of Dallas may be launching a bid to acquire Georgia Gulf Corp., a $1 billion

An increasing number of HMOs are altering their rules to allow patients the option of going to outsi

CHINA BUYS US CORN FOR 1ST TIME IN 2 YEARSChina has bought U.S. corn for the first time in a

Most livestock and poultry producers appear to have outdistanced the impact oflast year's drought an

THE FIRST WARNING came when the church in our neighborhood said it could no longer collect newspaper

Claiming that a chemical firm "obstinately refused" to clean up pollution in Northwest Dade County,

With world cotton demand up sharply this year, growers say they will ask the Department of Agricultu

MC Shipping Inc. is a ship owning company that charters out its ships to other operators. The compan

Ports and shipping lines have each contributed to a proliferation of volume incentive freight rates,

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

The Massachusetts Port Authority said it has not abandoned hope for its controversial plan to ease c

CONSUMER PRICE RISE HIT 0.2 PERCENT LAST MONTHConsumer prices rose 0.2 percent in July, matc

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

Exxon Corp. late last week told Alaska Superior Court that it did not violate any federal or state l

Highly successful trials of the antiviral drug AZT suggest that AIDS may soon become "a treatable di

The U.S. dollar appears irrepressible now that recession fears have faded and the trade gap is narro

Time is turning into a constraint in western areas of the Midwest as corn, and to a lesser extent so

Fast-growing Fame Plastics Inc., founded in Statesville, N.C. in 1980 and now operating two faciliti

CYANAMID EDIBLE OIL PRODUCTION PLANT MOVESWAYNE, N.J. - American Cyanamid Co. will move manu

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

Higher sugar prices helped push Cuban exports over the $1 billion mark and resulted in a $148 millio

CHICAGO YEN TRADER ENTERS NOT GUILTY PLEAChicago Mercantile Exchange yen trader Michael Chri

U.S. textile and apparel importers and domestic producers are clashing again over whether their prod

BUMPING CONGRESSMEN IS NOTHING NEW. The recent incident in which USAir bumped Rep. Cass Ballenger, R

COASTAL CORP. (Houston) - Kay Heffelfinger was named central zone vice presidnet of the Southwest re

Take a coal strike, a fuel supply shortfall and the ominous specter of acid rain control legislation

CARGO VOLUME GROWS 5.2 PERCENT AT TAMPA PORTTAMPA, Fla. - General cargo volume at the Port o

As Western advertising begins appearing in Eastern Europe, the messages often are tailored for viewe

Friday's index was up 0.5 from a week ago and 0.1 higher than its level on Thursday. While m

They generally come in with vodka, wood and more vodka. They leave loaded with grain or industrial m

Led by the lure of future profits, the push to globalize and the prestige of being in an emerging ma

PRICES OF ocean freight futures contracts failed to respond to a rise in drybulk freight rat

Heating oil dealers in the Northeast are banding together to wage an intensified anti-gas advertisin

COAL EXPORTS PREDICTED TO RISE 50 PERCENT BY 2000U.S. coal exports will grow nearly 50 perce

Substantial quantities of high-quality crude oil have been found in an exploratory well drilled off