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Westmoreland Coal Co. said Thursday it is laying off 87 employees at its Virginia mines as a direct

1376 (July 20, 1989) Previous day - 1377 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What does it mean that a sudden and major political ruckus over offshore oil drilling is being met

ARTHUR KILL PARTIALLY REOPENS AFTER SPILLA portion of the Arthur Kill channel has been parti

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MEXICO, BANKS MOVE ON DEBT-PARING TALKSMexico and its commercial lenders are making progress

The U.S. dollar remained slightly higher against most currencies in choppy midday trading, after era

CONSUMER PRICES ROSE 0.2 PERCENT IN JUNEConsumer prices inched up 0.2 percent in June, the s

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A House plan to raise nearly $2 billion from mutual life insurance companies over the next three yea

The Canadian government said it intends to use all avenues at its disposal to counter the ruling Tue

At least a dozen traders targeted in the government's investigation of Chicago's futures exchanges h

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

American Society of Transportation and Logistics, third annual eastern regional seashore seminar, Ju

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

Taiwan on Wednesday ended 14 years of interest rate restrictions and allowed banks to freely set rat

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Annual passenger growth is forecast to increase at a rate of 5.3 percent along with an overall incre

The Nissan Motor Co. showroom seems more like a nightclub than a place of business. Rock mus

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

The commodity swap market is poised to grow dramatically now that the Commodity Futures Trading Comm

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is expected to tell Congress today that the economy is on tr