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Emery Worldwide has exploited a division in labor's ranks to blunt partially the impact of a strike

Three major rail systems reported second quarter earnings Thursday. Following on the heels of Conrai

Barely four months after assuming the lead underwriting role for United Airlines, Associated Aviatio

Concerned that a traffic slowdown will cause the company to fall short of projected traffic and reve

A Georgia company claims the pilot who crashed his private plane into notoriety unlawfully billed th

"The winds of change are blowing," Sen. Howard Metzenbaum said at an April hearing on a bill he spon

SOUTH KOREANS FORESEE LOWER US CORN PRICESSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's Feed Associatio

Groups representing chemical manufacturers in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan have agree

In a letter to members Thursday morning, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange reversed an earlier proposa

DOW CHEMICAL POSTS RECORD EARNINGSMIDLAND, Mich., - Dow Chemical Co., which agreed to buy a

C-E UNIT AWARDED PACT FOR S. KOREAN PLANTCombustion Engineering Inc., Stamford, Conn., said

Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee are preparing a letter asking Commodity Futures Trading

Twelve leading private grain exporters Thursday agreed to lend the government a minimum US$226.4 mil

Mills have managed a series of events so skillfully during the past few months that cash lumber and

Gold prices will remain higher for the near term on a combination of a lowerdollar and stron

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Japanese manufacturers are competing with low-cost imported electric fans by introducing new models

RALSTON PURINA TO SELL BREMNER COOKIE UNITST. LOUIS - Ralston Purina Co. has agreed to sell

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

Boys across America may shake their heads in dismay, but the courts have spoken: G.I. Joe is a doll,

Governors from 17 Western states urged President Bush to grant most-favored- nat ion trading status

Japanese electronics makers are moving into South Korea, a large, once-closed market and the home tu

WOOD PULP CARGO IS MOBILE PORT RECORDMOBILE, Ala. - The largest wood pulp cargo ever loaded

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION IN FRANCE FALLS 2.2 PERCENTFrance's industrial production eased 2.2 pe

Daniel D'Agrosa and Robert Lipscomb say the Inland Empire is about to strike back. Mr. D'Agr

While the parents of an eight-year-old brain-damaged boy struggle to afford diapers, the boy's forme

United Airlines may not wind up flying the biggest planes to Europe next year, with its new plans fo

The World Bank announced Wednesday that it will do more to help developing nations raise capital for

ABOARD THE LAKE SHORE LIMITED - Lunch was served on flimsy plastic plates, but the view from the din

Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Massachusetts will lay off 7 percent of its 6,500 employees as it realigns

BPU TO APPEAL RULING ON PIPELINE SETTLEMENTNEWARK, N.J. - State utility regulators said Tues

AMR Corp., parent of American Airlines Inc., reported record second-quarter earnings rose 25.8 perce

PIEDMONT ADDS FLIGHTS AT CHARLOTTE AIRPORTCHARLOTTE, N.C. - Piedmont Airlines has added five

A U.S. joint venture made its second oil strike this year on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the s

American Reliance Group Inc., a regional property/casualty insurance holding company, Tuesday report

The number of U.S. rigs drilling for oil and gas fell by five to 820 for the week ended July 14, com

Inventories of gasoline ran counter to normal seasonal patterns and increased substantially last wee

Despite the federal government's move to ban asbestos last week, millions of tons of the cancer-caus

Britain's port employers have claimed that the strike by dockers, now in its second week, is crumbli

Exxon Corp. said Tuesday that maneuvering by the Exxon Valdez supertanker to avoid ice, not drinking