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POISON PILL DEFENSE OF NORTHWEST UPHELDWASHINGTON - A Delaware Court upheld Northwest Airlin

A computerized collection of family trees in Tel Aviv is helping Jews around the world trace their r

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Ciba-Geigy Corp. will not be allowed to clean up its Superfund pollution site by sending treated gro

Amtrak is hoping to resume its Montrealer passenger service between Washington and Canada in June, m

Private express companies said the U.S. Postal Service's new cut rate for international express mail

A proposed plan to build a major new regional airport in eastern Massachusetts within the next 20 ye

Thanks to the high-technology "plumb lines" of two Maryland entrepreneurs, many towboat captains kno

U.S. steel users apparently are split over whether the Bush administration should renew steel import

The House grappled Wednesday with a $4.7 billion domestic spending bill, and a Democratic plan to pa

The elderly are inadequately protected from medical insurance fraud, House Commerce Committee Chairm

Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher told Congress Wednesday that his department is intensifying its

One of the New York port's major intermodal railyards may undergo a significant expansion currently

The construction of a standardized, international electronic network to allow computers to "talk" wi

Most Americans have probably never heard of Ladeco Airlines, except perhaps those shipping cargo to

In an effort to encourage widespread response to its call for bids to operate the Express Mail netwo

Declining Brazilian purchases of U.S. wheat, due to a series of record Brazilian grain harvests, are

Transocean Terminal Operators Inc. dedicated a $250,000 expansion Tuesday at the Port of New Orleans

The Coast Guard says it is going to crack down on persons who transmit false alarms on emergency rad

The nation's tobacco farmers are hoping to boost production this year, and one of the reasons is the

SWEDEN PROPOSES HIKE IN INDIRECT TAXESSTOCKHOLM, Sweden - Sweden's Social Democratic governm

As expected, Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita announced Tuesday that he plans to resign in the wake o

Gasoline prices soared by about 4 cents a gallon and crude oil was up sharply in late trading Tuesda

The U.S. Postal Service, in a bid to capture more of the expanding international express delivery ma

As Japan enters a new age of prosperity and leadership, the so-called Recruit Scandal could serve as

A worldwide gathering of port officials was urged this week to take a hard line against shipowners w

The U.S. Customs Service is attempting to reduce the large number of stolen vehicles exported from U

CONTROL DATA DROPS SUPERCOMPUTER CONTESTBLOOMINGTON, Minn. - Control Data Corp. is notifying

OVER THE PAST several years, especially during the last 15 months or so, there has evolved an increa

The abrupt shift in cargo emphasis at the Port of Brunswick, Ga., was evident at last week's Brunswi

Robert H. Pouch, chairman and president of Barber Ship Management, became an honorary member of the

JAMES CAREY NAMED ACTING FMC CHAIRMANPresident Bush has designated James J. Carey acting cha

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PAKISTAN LOOSENS REINS ON NEWSPRINT IMPORTSISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan ordered newsprint

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., one of the world's largest plastic makers, and Waste Management Inc.,

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Almost two months of labor warfare at Eastern Air Lines has produced many casualties, and few winne

HIGH COURT UPHOLDS INDIAN LANDS OIL TAX WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that st

Radio messages recorded the morning the Exxon Valdez ran aground show the ship's captain spent up to

A key Hungarian business executive is confident his country will be cleared later this year for insu