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THE BUDGET'S IRON IS STEAMING, and now is a great time for serious efforts to press away a lot of th

CHINA'S GNP RISE COULD HIT 8-YEAR LOWChina is likely to face stagflation for much of the res

CITICORP CHIEF TO HOST 60 FINANCIAL LEADERSNEW YORK - More than 60 financial executives, inc

Ocean freight rates for dry bulk cargo spurted upward last week, with the Baltic Freight Index, the

High prices and low freight rates don't seem to be deterring shipowners from ordering new tankers, e

Fifteen yards south of the U.S.-Mexican border, raw sewage overflows from a manhole cover and stream

SODIUM PERCARBONATE Interox America of Houston will raise the list price of FB sodium percar

Canada said Friday it was sharply reducing entry points for fuel tankers coming from the United Stat

Once again, electronic data interchange committees have proven that coherence can come from a beast

The Tennessee Valley Authority said it bought 15,000 tons of coal under three weekly spot market con

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index moved back up to 106.0 Friday, the highest in two wee

PRESSURE IS INTENSIFYING on the U.S. Trade Representative's Office with the approach of the May 30 d

Late last year, Dutch businessman Franciscus Govaerts traveled to Boston to supervise the packing of

RULES/REGULATIONS The New Europe: Opportunity of Threat? May 17. New York. The Harvard Busin

Supercomputers, which have become vital tools for complex tasks ranging from nuclear weapon developm

A surprisingly moderate increase in the government's measure of wholesale inflation for April trigge

Federal lenders should enforce federal law by requiring homeowners in flood- prone areas to buy floo

A dispute between China and the United States over protection of intellectual property looks likely

A unit of Brazil's giant Lorentzen forest products and industrial conglomerate will begin moving con

Insurance Commissioner Roger M. Singer won't say if he'll loosen the reins on auto insurance rate-se

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

Delegates to the National Coal Association's 12th Annual Bulk Transportation Seminar here were told

Canadian coal production reached a record 70.6 million metric tons during 1988, newly released figur

Electronic walls that have split U.S. transportation modes have fallen with the introduction of a po

PERMANENT BAN SEEN FOR ASSAULT WEAPONSPresident Bush has tentatively decided to make permane

Florida is the most popular overall vacation destination this summer for American travelers who have

Construction has stopped at a planned Maine container terminal after a federal judge issued a prelim

A Sao Paulo criminal court last week ordered prison terms of four to seven years for 28 members of a

N. KOREA PROPOSES ALLIANCE WITH IRANNICOSIA, Cyprus - North Korea has proposed a cooperation

Reserve International Services Inc. is opening a marine container depot in Detroit for storage, inte

The European Community is planning to unveil proposals for a European ship registry within the next

The Environmental Protection Agency says it has reached a landmark agreement with 533 companies that

NC TORNADO DAMAGE PEGGED AT $100 MILLIONRALEIGH, N.C. - Damage assessment teams compiling fi

CON ED SAYS SUPPLIES SHOULD BE ADEQUATENEW YORK - New Yorkers should have plenty of electric

Government budget analysts said the unspent balances in the transportation trust funds are illusory

TRANSPORTATION CHIEF TO HONOR WORKERSWASHINGTON - Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner

ECUADOR - $45 million from the World Bank to expand the nation's telecommunicati ons network. A 17-y

World Trade Institute. International Ocean and Air Transportation: Planning, Negotiating and Managin

AFRAID OF FAILURE? Not us . . . During the recent security analyst visit to Norfolk Southern

Japonica Partners LP said it will initiate a tender offer for CNW Corp. after its failure to reach a