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Mexico's midterm need for $4.7 billion worth of petrochemical investments to avoid increased imports

Property/casualty insurance companies are undergoing a "dramatic financial recovery" after suffering

Trafalgar House PLC, the shipping, property and construction group, reported a 33 percent rise in ne

Sharply higher revenue from two new cruise ships helped Kloster Cruise Ltd. nearly triple its net in

May 9, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

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Rising costs have been sneaking up on the world's sneaker capital, where hundreds of long-profitable

South Korea, an industrious, Indiana-size country of nearly 50 million people, enjoys a $12 billion

The International Trade Commission cleared the way Tuesday for anti-dumping duties on imports of lig

Life expectancy for Americans remained unchanged in 1988 from the record level established a year ea

The 1989 Admiral of the Ocean Sea, the U.S. maritime industry's most prestigious annual award, will

Two leading port employers will go to court Thursday seeking an injunction to prevent the country's

Great billows of white smoke can be seen the minute a car turns off Route 153 onto a long, narrow di

AGENCY TO INSPECT EASTERN REPAIR WORKMIAMI - The Federal Aviation Administration said it wou

Proposition 103, California's rate-slashing insurance measure, is kindling insurance reform across t

The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of California will hold a professional liability loss c

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The Philippines is pushing for duty-free exports of watches to the United States, one of the world's

Europe's railways are falling behind rival transport sectors in preparing for the single European ma

S. KOREA PREDICTS GNP TO GROW BY 8 PERCENTSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's top economic pl

A major U.S. industry group Tuesday unveiled a plan for a government-industry initiative in high-def

Service-sector growth in the economy soon will slow dramatically, leaving the nation little choice b

Commodity traders and analysts say they are concerned because the timing of government probes into f

Eastern Airlines began advertising for mechanics Sunday, but Machinists union officials said the ads

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Coal exports from Indonesia this year should triple last year's figures to more than 2 million metri

U.S. drilling for oil and natural gas dropped by a third in the first three months of 1989 compared

Track repair work was scheduled to begin Monday at the Springfield Terminal Railway's interchange ya

About 20 percent of toxic chemicals emitted by North Carolina's industries will be regulated by the

In a sign of the tight links between U.S. and European suppliers, a service that allows companies to

STANDARDS BATTLES put the byte on users. To outsiders, standards often seem the most boring

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

Oil spill cleanup techniques and contingency planning will be dissected at a May 23 seminar sponsore

BHOPAL VICTIMS' HEIRS BEGIN TO RECEIVE COMPBHOPAL, India - The heirs of 2,000 adults killed

John J. Creedon of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. is planning to step down Sept. 1 as the company's

Just a year after it doubled the size of its trans-Pacific containership fleet, China's national shi

TAIWAN CURRENCY FALLS AS TRADE TALKS BEGINTAIPEI, Taiwan - The New Taiwan dollar declined ag

Prices for most Third World debt in the secondary market dipped last week in thin trading as holiday

Senate investigators say some oil firms have cheated Indians and the Interior Department out of mill

Alaska's oil industry proved that its political clout remains strong despite the Exxon Valdez spill