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An oil storage tank 15 feet from the water's edge ruptured Tuesday morning and poured out an estimat

General Motors Corp. announced new incentive packages Tuesday for four leading car lines, including

Scientists aboard the Exxon Valdez are collecting samples of the gooey blue substance still oozing f

Hashemi Rafsanjani, widely expected to be Iran's next president, says heplans to focus the c

The California Court of Appeals, the state's second highest court, has agreed toconsider a complicat

A man boards a bus on Wilshire Boulevard. After threatening the driver with a knife, the man is beat

Cocoa futures closed sharply higher after extending midday gains on strength in the New York market

European shippers said Monday they plan to fight rate increases proposed by the new North Europe-USA

Roussel-Uclaf, the Franco-German pharmaceutical manufacturer, will go ahead with plans to build an i

DOW CHEMICAL TO BUY MARION LABORATORIESMarion Laboratories Inc. said Monday that Dow Chemica

The Soviet Union, seeking to be part of the world trade system, will implement the international cus

The International Maritime Organization was singled out at the Paris economic summit as one of the b

MEMBER BANK RESERVES HAVE BEEN LIKENED to a husband-and-wife checking account in which the dominant

A Florida legal panel is considering imposing the nation's most comprehensive restrictions on lawyer

The doomsayers had said that allowing hard-working Icelanders to drink strong beer would turn them i

Chase Manhattan said its second quarter earnings fell to $137 million, or $1.31 a share, from $224 m

BANK OF CHINA ARM IN HONG KONG SET BACKChina's political turmoil has caused major setbacks f

Hard red winter wheat cash prices are currently near historical highs for the harvest period and are

CMS Energy Corp. said that Oxford Energy Co., the independent power production unit in which it hold

Senior members of the Institute of London Underwriters, the association of more than 100 marine insu

SUN ACCEPTING BIDS FOR STOP 'N GO STORESSun Refining & Marketing Co. said Monday it is accep

FIRM CONCLUDES OFFER FOR CNW CORP. SHARESChicago & North Western Acquisition Corp. announced

Guilford Industries of North Billerica, Mass., said it has suspended service to a chemical shipper i

Federal officials in Providence, R.I., called off a probable cause hearing scheduled for today in th

Japan's Transport Ministry called Monday for softening the laws that currently prevent shipping line

Two Chinese companies are offering personal injury and foreign investment insurance against politica

An air cargo company has been licensed by the Indonesian government to extend services outside the c

Docker leaders from West Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium agreed Monday to ask their members to

FUNERAL SCHEDULED FOR J.P. MCALLISTERA funeral will be held Thursday for James P. McAllister

NEWS THAT A FRENCH TRADE HOUSE purchased 500,000 metric tons of European Community C quota sugar, at

HUB GROUP INC. (Downers Grove, Ill.) - John J. Schmitter was named president of Hub City Philadelphi

SAUDI ARABIA REDUCES PLANNED SUPPLY CUTSNICOSIA, Cyprus - Saudi Arabia will reduce planned c

CP Trucks Ltd. of Toronto, one of Canada's largest motor carriers, has branched out into the trailer

EC GRAIN OUTPUT SEEN OFF BY 3.8 MILLION TONSFRANKFURT, West Germany - Because of dry weather

Bush administration officials left Paris Monday buoyed by the strong support given the U.S. enhanced

China's oil industry managed to increase production in the first half of the year despite a shortage

The Japanese government has awarded a research grant to a leading U.S. biotechnology company, report

Bankers in Hong Kong said Monday they took a declaration by the Group of Seven as a sign to continue

Affordable housing will remain unreachable for nearly half the nation's black and Hispanic families

Martexport Inc., a New York City export company, is seeking at least $4 million in a complaint alleg