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Ronald W. Stasch was elected president of the Risk and Insurance Management Society for the 1989-90

It can stop bulldozers with a flick of its tail. It can confound city planning agencies with a mere

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Three federal agencies have proposed changes to their zero tolerance drug policy that provide an alt

The National Transportation Safety Board staff dropped to 280 between 1981 and 1982 as a result of R

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South African police have mounted an international search for five men who allegedly defrauded two o

Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., calling himself coal's "watchman" in the Senate, Tuesday warned that indu

FOREIGN INVESTORS IN CHINA UNHAPPYForeign businessmen in one of China's model investment zon

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

After many days of confusion and contradictory statements, it appears there won't be any additional

DIRECT CONTAINER LINE OFFERS NEW SERVICESLONG BEACH, Calif. - Direct Container Line Inc., an

The American railroad industry will be unable to meet shippers' demands by the middle of the next de

A seaman on an East German freighter jumped ship Tuesday while in the West German Port of Kiel and i

Tougher aircraft maintenance standards may be needed to ensure the safety of older planes, a Senate

BECHTEL GROUP INC. (San Francisco) - Riley P. Bechtel was named president and chief operating office

The United States should respond favorably to Poland's political reforms but should insist Warsaw fo

South Korean unions will begin nationwide strikes on May 1 if they fail in a campaign to win higher

U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills said Tuesday that she is "optimistic" that the Uruguay Round t

A new United Nations-sponsored strategy for economic reforms offers Africa the best option to avoid

Heavy truck sales continued their flat track in March as deliveries rose sharply from February level

''I durst not laugh, for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air." - Julius Caesar, by Wil

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter said this week that the Bush administration still doesn't

An American multinational is joining with two Chinese entities to create what's called China's first

Japan has made adequate efforts to liberalize its food imports over the past year and does not inten

Baltimore/Washington International Airport is adding an eighth building to its Air Cargo Center, inc

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

An NEC Corp. supercomputer that will go on sale next year represents the leading edge of a Japanese

TEMPORARY SERVICES INTERNATIONAL INC. (Long Beach, Calif.) - Jennifer Frank, a recruiter and trade c

Wilh. Wilhelmsen Ltd., the Norwegian shipowner and oil rig operator, reported reduced operating prof

If you go by the numbers, U.S. mergers and acquisitions fell sharply in the first quarter of 1989 co

For generations, small boys have played with toy trains, emulating the real thing in miniature.<

Railroad intermodal service has passed from its "free lunch" first phase through its technological s

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

In an unavoidably bold move, the countries that control the world's biggest purses have approved the

Silence can be deadly. U.S. transportation companies, satisfied with domestically developed

COMPAQ COMPUTER OPENS NORWEGIAN UNITCompaq Computer Corp. has opened Compaq Computer Norway

American policy makers believe U.S. relations with Japan have been hurt, perhaps seriously, by a con

A conservative Massachusetts state lawmaker accused of aiming to "gut" the state's universal health-

A framework budget agreement now being hammered out between Congress and the Bush administration sho