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HOW TO USE: The following government bid opportunities are among the hundreds of such opport

Transportation companies face a tremendous challenge and opportunity as retailers move to automated

Frederick A. Wang, president of Wang Laboratories Inc., announced his decision to resign Tuesday fol

WHEN THE ELMHURST (N.Y.) NATIONAL BANK failed to reopen after the 1933 bank holiday, the local hardw

Their earnings at home have hit the skids, but Massachusetts computer makers are hitting new sales h

COASTAL CORP. (Houston) - David A. Arledge and Michael L. Beatty were elected executive vice preside

A court in Illinois has cleared the way for Golden Rule Insurance Co. of Indianapolis to assume the

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Finance Minister Michael Wilson Tuesday unveiled details of a so-called Goods and Services Tax desig

EGYPT, WORLD BANK HOLD TALKS ON LOANEgypt has begun talks with the World Bank on its appeal

USDA ACTS TO REVISE PL-480 ALLOCATIONSThe U.S. Department of Agriculture Tuesday issued revi

COGENERATION PLANT TO USE CANADIAN GASCanadian natural gas producers in Alberta approved con

Jugolinija Line and its U.S. agent denied allegations by a New York City export company that a compe

A small shipping line that has provided one-way service northbound from Brazil for several years has

RAINY WEATHER did little to dampen the spirits of Italian Line executives Monday afternoon when they

Brazil has approved the entry of two private ship operators into the country's bulk cargo trades, we

Within the last 200 years, there have been 26 grand attempts to establish a fixed transport link bet

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

Truckers, shippers and forwarders face months without Interstate 78, a key East-West road link to Ne

A $16.4 million fiscal year 1990 budget bill for the Federal MaritimeCommission is on Presid

PUBLIC HEARINGS NEAR ON PROPOSITION 103Insurance Commissioner Roxani Gillespie opens an impo

Tue., Aug. 8, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

Open market prices for seats on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange have risen significant

President Bush has agreed to meet with New York Gov. Mario Cuomo to discussthe governor's plan to ha

UAL Corp.'s board of directors is scheduled to meet today to consider Los Angeles investor Marvin Da

Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Sparrows Point shipyard in Baltimore was awarded a contract worth over $2 mi

A short-lived strike last month by some Emery Worldwide workers in the New York area sets the stage

PA. ENGINEERING FIRM HIKES STAKE IN MIDWAYWASHINGTON - Ampco-Pittsburgh Corp., an engineerin

SAMSUNG, H-P FORM COMPUTER ALLIANCESouth Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. a division of South

NORTH AMERICA Air Show Canada. Aug. 9-13. Abbotsford, British Columbia. This fair will bring

Near the shore of New York's Seneca Lake, the demise of a quarter-acre of pale green cabbage loopers

California's dancing raisins are taking their act to Japan. The first shipment is scheduled

Wilhelmsen Lines (USA) Inc., the U.S. agency subsidiary of Oslo, Norway-based shipping company Wilhe

China will suffer continuing economic problems in the 1990s, which will stoke more social and politi

LINCOLN EUROPEAN REINSURANCE CO. (Fort Wayne, Indiana) - Jean-Paul Vander Elst was named general man

Combined EC oilseed production in 1989-90 (July-June) will reach only 10.3 million metric tons, down

BIG BRAZIL COFFEE CROP COULD FUEL PRICE WARLONDON - Brazil's potential to produce a large co

Pirates off the coast of Nigeria and Indonesia, plundered containers full of valueless deadweight, i

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HITACHI CANCELS AD TO AVOID US FRICTIONJapanese computer giant Hitachi has abandoned plans f