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MAJOR RETAILERS POST MIXED JUNE RESULTSReports from the nation's major retailers Thursday sh

The Chinese textile industry, the country's chief export earner, is looking to the Soviet Union for

INDUSTRIAL ORDERS DROP 3.6 PERCENT IN WEST GERMANYFRANKFURT, West Germany - Demand for West

The number of auto dealers may drop by more than half in the coming decade due to competitive market

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Labor leaders predicted a million people would join next week's one-day general strike in Ecuador to

When three major oil spills occurred within one day last month, the Coast Guard's Emergency Strike T

A United Nations unit Thursday launched a new plan to stave off further economic ruin in Africa, say

Western leaders at next week's economic summit in Paris are expected to reaffirm existing broad econ

The Philippines is again attracting the interest of foreign companies seeking a base for manufacturi

Cargo hauler Elwood Blues probably is entitled to bray a bit over Yale University bestowing him with

Europe's petrochemicals business is on a roll, basking in bumper profits, solid margins and surging

A U.S. appeals court upheld the Federal Maritime Commission's ocean forwarder regulations and said t

Negotiators for the International Longshoremen's Association and waterfront management groups at som

In a major breakthrough for the automation of American business transactions, the Department of Defe

July 5, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

AGAINST THE ADVERSITY of massive walkouts by unionized labor, a Pennsylvania producer whose mine was

This is part of an occasional series illustrating the effect of new regulations that require reduced

VALLEY CAMP OF UTAH GETS COAL SUPPLY PACTOIL CITY, Pa. - Valley Camp of Utah Inc. received a

The United Mine Workers' strike against Pittston Coal Group Inc. entered its fourth month Wednesday

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries oil output in early July willaverage about 21

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This may not be a banner year for many computer makers, but companies that make portable computers a

North American users of electronic data interchange have created a powerful tool. That tool

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Another of Taiwan's big chemical companies said it plans to build in the United States to escape ris

HEAT STABILIZERS Ciba-Geigy Corp., Hawthorne, N.Y., said it would raise prices between 6 per

Union Carbide Corp. of Danbury, Conn., became a holding company July 1 and its domestic chemicals an

A fiery explosion in a chemical mixing vat killed three workers and injured two, authorities said.

TOKYO UTILITY TO MOVE TO EIGHT-DIGIT NUMBERTokyo is joining Paris in the ranks of cities wit

Electronic communications technology is going to see to it that Navy personnel can get cash while th

Mary Kay Cosmetics Inc., target of comic strip barbs over animal testing and jokes about its pink Ca

The Environmental Protection Agency is negotiating with a number of companies that could be held lia

Boston Edison Co. is starting tests of a radio-relay meter reading system touted as eliminating esti

With the deadline for mandatory recycling two years away, 85 percent of the state's municipalities h

Proposals for a new system for allocation of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' prod

A national air freight handling company is opening a new air cargo center at Seattle-Tacoma Internat

Amoco gasoline station dealers in two states are suing Amoco Corp., accusing the company of trying t

The European Community Commission is gearing up for another assault on Europe's powerful airline car

MORTON THIOKOL COMPLETES SPINOFFMorton Thiokol Inc. said it completed the spinoff of its div