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New anti-drug guidelines being drafted by the U.S. Customs Service will spell out separate security

Already reeling from the Exxon Valdez disaster, marine insurers now face hefty losses from three oil

The Supreme Court handed businesses and their insurers a major legal setback by ruling that the cons

The United States Postal Service has won carrier backing to extend, for an additionalsix months, the

Fri., June 23, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

Midway Airlines Chairman David R. Hinson has a new heartthrob these days. It's the Philadelphia Inte

State-owned Philippine Air Lines posted a profit of 302 million pesos (US$14 million) in the fiscal

The domination of an airport by a single airline is either a blow or a boon to competition, dependin

As sunlight burns through the night in Iceland, fish are being flown fresh to markets in the United

JAPANESE QUESTIONING PAYMENT TO BOEING CO.Japanese opposition members of parliament are ques

In the year plus since the roof ripped off an Aloha Airlines jet and a flight attendant plunged to h

An attorney representing the American Trucking Associations says he is pleased with a ruling upholdi

A unit of Exxon Corp. is being offered a stake in the aromatics section of Thailand's US$1.25 billio

SEA-LAND ANNOUNCES PR APPOINTMENTSSEA-LAND SERVICE INC. (Edison, N.J.) - This U.S. s

Millions of households are expected to face higher water bills because of new federal rules that are

The International Institute of Container Lessors has released its 1989 edition of the Directory of C

A new liner shipping service between the U.S. East Coast and the eastern Mediterranean will be start

Propylene Glycol Olin Corp., Stamford, Conn., said it would raise off-schedule prices for pr

Great Lakes port officials will get a close look this week at some slime- covered visitors from over

The small West Gulf port of Freeport, hidden in the shadows of Houston and Galveston, is raising a c

Port of Tampa Deputy Director Joseph L. Valenti has been appointed federal port controller to the Ma

Fruit and vegetable growers testifying before a congressional subcommittee last week defended their

The two-week old walkout by thousands of union miners sympathetic to the plight of striking employee

The Tennessee Valley Authority said its weekly spot coal purchases declined to only 6,000 tons under

SENATE APPROVES BILL TO DEREGULATE GASThe Senate Thursday night approved a compromise bill t

Pertamina, the Indonesian state oil company, expects to increase sales of liquefied natural gas to J

CHEMEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC. (Denver) - Chief Executive Herbert H. McDade Jr. was elected chairman of

When 11-year-old Douglas Buchan worked in his father's filling station 40 years ago, he never dreame

For the second year in a row a widely used soybean herbicide, Scepter, is stunting part of Iowa's co

June 23, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Trying to stave off mounting concerns over their product's contribution to the nation's solid waste

USE FREIGHT FUTURES BY BARRY PARKER LOGO The ocean freight futures market came down early la

CHEVRON SET TO RESTART ITS NINIAN PLATFORMSLimited crude oil production was expected to rest

About 4 million barrels of Brent system North Sea crude oil may not be shipped in July following del

The nation's chemical manufacturers said last week they have abandoned their previous opposition and

Two men were arrested and charged with arson in connection with the June 19 fire at a chemical labor

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Two companies involved in a complicated subsidized tug-barge vessel charter arrangement are seeking

The heavily weighted plywood component of the Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index helped push