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REGIONAL BLOCS The Pacific Summit and Symposia. Aug. 6-11. Seattle. This major event being c

JAPAN'S FUJI PHOTO OPENS PLANT IN USGREENWOOD, S.C. - The American subsidiary of Fuji Photo

1376 (July 21, 1989) Previous day - 1376 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

In the office of Kenneth Carr, the new chairman of the Nuclear RegulatoryCommission, hangs a

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Air bags will be standard equipment on 13 of General Motors Corp.'s 1990 car lines, or about 500,000

Companies in the business of moving electronic messages may soon be crying over spilt milk.

EQUIBANK (Pittsburgh) - Nicholas J. Zennario was named president and chief operating officer.

When Siberian miners went on strike in the Soviet Union last week, one complained to a U.S. reporter

FLUOR GETS $43 MILLION IN IRANIAN SETTLEMENTIRVINE, Calif. - Fluor Corp. has reached a settl

John F. O'Brien was named president, chief executive and a board member of State Mutual Life Assuran

The Federal Maritime Commission has shelved its effort to clarify what is meant by the terms "U.S. c

Coffee producers Brazil, Colombia and Mexico expect few problems on trade or foreign debt repayments

A struggling U.S. shipyard says it will receive U.S. funding for its biggest job in half a dozen yea

President Bush plans to attend a Western Hemisphere summit in San Jose, Costa Rica, on Oct. 27 and 2

Profitability is believed to be a growing concern among airlines serving China, with passenger loads

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

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The Commerce Department has arrested three foreign nationals for violating the Export Administration

With overseas investment and demand both growing, Malaysia's comparatively small textile and garment

China's sole coal exporter says sales in the first half of the year were marginally greater than in

CHINA'S GNP ROSE 5.7 PERCENT IN FIRST HALF OF 1989China's gross national product grew 5.7 pe

Twenty-nine Philadelphia hospitals filed a lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania last wee

Both rail management and labor had hoped during the past year to get a clear- cut decision from the

Fluoropolymers Ausimont U.S.A. Inc. said it will build a new fluoropolymer production facili

EASTERN READY TO SELL SOUTH AMERICAN ROUTESEastern Airlines has told striking pilots it is r

The forthcoming U.K. ministerial cabinet reshuffle, widely expected today, will leave Chancellor of

RECESSION, the dreaded word that few expected to be uttered, came from the lips of Federal Reserve C

The Massachusetts Port Authority said it welcomed the restoration of its bond rating last week but

U.S. shipbuilders withdrew their petition against the shipyard subsidies of four foreign governments

Last week, the ocean freight futures market repeated a pattern familiar to watchers of price charts.

TAIWAN-CHINA TRADE SEEN SLUMPING SHARPLYTAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's trade with China through H

American and other Western businessmen and diplomats who have returned to China since last month's b

Hong Kong industrialists say they have no intention of closing operations in China due to political

Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee Iacocca, the high priest of automotive packaging, began the revolution s

French food giant BSN Groupe, fresh from a major coup on Wall Street, launched a second major deal t

Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine of France said Friday it could give no precise timetable for talks w

A federal appeals court handed freight shippers an important victory by affirming the Interstate Com

A newly-formed group of ship lines announced rate hikes on U.S. ocean export shipments to North Euro