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WHAT IT IS: The Food for Peace Program, or Public Law 480, is the U.S. government's primary method o

Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine, the French government-controlled energy and chemical giant, has ext

Defense Secretary Dick Cheney sharply criticized an administration decision to allow the sale of per

The European Community Thursday restated its determination to resist the strong pressure from its ma

WHOLESALE PRICE INDEX GROWS 0.1 PERCENT IN PERIODThe Japanese wholesale price index for July

A DARK SIDE to the aluminum market is hitting some dealers hard. After two years of steadily

The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee Thursday favorably reported the nomination o

BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS CERTIFICATES OF ORIGIN FOR WINES AND DISTILLED SPIRITS. Cert

The U.S. dollar declined broadly in moderately active trading Thursday, pressured early by comments

CHINA SANCTIONS CURB DEBT PAYMENT ABILITYChina will have difficulty paying its foreign debts

The top budget manager of the Bush administration said Thursday he did not expect there would be any

Member governments of the International Monetary Fund have overridden U.S. objections and voted over

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VETERANS' GROUPS URGE ACTION ON FLAGVeterans organizations Thursday called on Congress to ne

Federal Reserve Board governor D. Wayne Angell offered an optimistic view of two major international

Thur., July 20, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

Red, white and gray may sound a shade less than patriotic, but American car buyers were loyal to the

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

A Japanese steamship line's experiment running double-stack trains into Mexico might spawn so many i

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking at the financial records of the largest seafaring uni

The United Kingdom's largest container shipping company plans to float $150 million in convertible b

The economy should continue to grow slowly, but a recession could develop, Federal Reserve Chairman

American International Group is refusing to pay claims filed by Equator Bank Ltd., under a policy co

Northern Natural Gas Co., a division of Enron Corp., has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commiss

The trustee for the bankrupt Chicago, Missouri & Western Railway has sued the road's biggest credito

The European Community's creation of a free internal market by 1992 should help American business mo

Recent oil spills have nearly wiped out the Coast Guard's supply of cleanupfunds as long-del

SMITH BARNEY HARRIS UPHAM & CO. (New York) - John DiPlacido and Gary Katich joined the company to op

July 20, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

American President Cos. reported a 61 percent decline in second-quarter earnings relative to a year

SANTA FE RAILWAY PLANS MANAGEMENT STAFF CUTSAtchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway is reducing

The moon hanging overhead looks so clean and serene. But don't be fooled. ''The moon really

A PENNSYLVANIA RAIL CARRIER hopes it has better luck with a federal judge than it did with the jury.

The European Commission Thursday approved 731 million ($1.2 billion) of U.K. aid to Short Brothers

Communist Vietnam's first private taxi company has been set up in Ho Chi Minh City with a brand new

BA Cargo Official Joins Air Canada MONTREAL - Geoff Bridges, British Airways managing direct

Scientists say they have created the world's smallest lasers and packed 2 million of them onto a chi

All Nippon Airways, Japan' largest commercial air carrier, announced plans Wednesday to inaugurate r

British and German banks estimate that Airbus Industrie, the European aircraft manufacturer, lost $1