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Leaders of Britain's dockers will decide today whether to hold a ballot to strike after failing to p

CONRAIL INCOME ROSE 25 PERCENT IN 1ST QUARTERPHILADELPHIA - Consolidated Rail Corp.'s first

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The unification of European economies in 1992 won't have a sudden dramatic impact on coal trade, but

Agreement was expected to be reached Wednesday for bankrupt United States Lines Inc. to pay $1.8 mil

The Maritime Administration has reversed a 1988 policy decision allowing ships built overseas but re

Rioters protesting price increases mandated by the International Monetary Fund battled police, loote

International Monetary Fund officials met with Peruvian finance officials this week but President Al

San Francisco-based Wells Fargo Bank is effectively handing over its foreign business to Hongkong &

Two U.S. industry associations Wednesday called for Japan to be placed high up on the hit list of co

After more than 100 days of labor unrest at the Port of Genoa, the major dockworkers' union Wednesda

JUDGE WON'T BLOCK JAPONICA BID FOR CNWCHICAGO - CNW Corp. said it intends to appeal a ruling

The high cost of building new ships may force owners to keep existing drybulk vessels in ser

FRANCHISEIT CORP. (Bohemia, N.Y.) - Lawrence B. Costello was named president and director. Mr. Coste

The U.S. State Department, worried that sensitive technology exported to China could fall into the w

PRIME OFFERS NEWEST SUPER MINICOMPUTERNATICK, Mass. - Prime Computer Inc. has introduced the

The railroad industry came surprisingly close to pulling off a major victory in the Senate this week

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

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1617 (Apr. 19, 1989) Previous day - 1621 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. is eyeing partnerships with foreign-based ship lines as a means of expandi

In advance of a May international conference on protecting the earth's ozone layer, an environmental

Amoco Corp. opened a recycling plant Tuesday in Brooklyn, N.Y., that officials said represents a new

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Amid growing awareness here about industrial pollution, China is planning an international exhibitio

ALLIED-SIGNAL INCOME ROSE IN FIRST QUARTERAllied-Signal Inc., Morris, N.J., said it earned $

A special committee of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange recommended bans on dual trading, increased s

YEUTTER BULLISH ON EXPORT BONUS SALESWASHINGTON - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter

KODAK TO CONSOLIDATE ITS ESTEK SUBSIDIARYROCHESTER, N.Y. - Eastman Kodak Co. said it would c

Trading for the London International Financial Futures Exchange's new Eurodeutsche mark contract wil

Investors are showing rekindled interest in biotechnology companies for the first time in two years,

The country's most successful high-tech entrepreneur thinks Taiwan hasn't done enough in the way of

Inventories of gasoline declined and distillate fuel supplies increased, the American Petroleum Inst

ENRON CORP. (Houston) - George W. Posey was named senior vice president of support services and Thom

Predicting that soaring auto insurance rates would push Pennsylvanians toward an "unprecedented insu

An Alaska seafood group has proposed a $41.3 million advertising campaign to reassure anxious consum

Apr. 19, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

NY LEGISLATURE OKS TAX ON PRODUCTSALBANY, N.Y. - The New York State Legislature Wednesday pa

Fewer Japanese employees are going to work with a song on their lips these days. The old custom of s

Venezuelan officials are trying to impress upon their U.S. counterparts that the burden of foreign d