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The Commerce Department's export promotion program is expected to unveil its new video presentation

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BASF AG, the West German chemical group, said Wednesday group pretax profit jumped 44 percent to 3.7

The great drought of 1988 still has a hold on America's heartland, even though spring is beginning t

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

Consider the small ruffe, a sexually precocious perch-like fish barely six inches long, with a cosmo

Buying Northwest Airlines for $2.62 billion would not require selling the carrier's "strategic asset

SINGAPORE TRADE ROSE 2.9 PERCENT DURING FEBRUARYSingapore's trade in February totaled S$12.6

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SOVIET UNION PURCHASES MORE CORN FROM USWASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture said

The Port of Oakland is restructuring its debt and adding a $15 million cash reserve fund in order to

The 51,500-gross-ton car carrier Faust has just changed flags and is beginning operation as America'

Despite a growing field of competitors and an exploding population of AIDS patients, the Food & Drug

Air Cargo Fast Flow, the $20 million automation effort designed to speed import cargo through John F

NY COMMISSION OKS CLOSING OF SHOREHAMALBANY, N.Y. - The New York State Public Service Commis

The United Mine Workers of America called a strike Wednesday against Pittston Coal Group Inc., the c

* Alexander Trowbridge - Rebuild Export Finance 10A * Tom Connors - Washington 10A* Michael

Exotic species are nothing new to the Great Lakes. Fisheries biologists in the region have b

ALASKAN OIL SPILL SPURS VARIETY OF LAWSUITSAt least 14 lawsuits representing dozens of plain

The chairman of a House committee is threatening to push for federal regulation of the supplemental

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

Costa Rica's president said Wednesday his nation "could be a very good example" of the debt-reductio

AGREEMENT TO LEGALIZE SOLIDARITY ENDORSEDWARSAW, Poland - Lech Walesa and a government minis

The U.S. Small Business Administration and American Telephone & Telegraph Co. will cosponsor two Jun

Peruvian and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents sprayed herbicides including Spike on about

A Japanese auto parts maker in which U.S. corporate takeover specialist T. Boone Pickens Jr. has tak

Retailers and clothing manufacturers are moving to get quick fast. They're so committed to a

ADMINISTRATION WIDENS ASSAULT WEAPON BANThe Bush administration said Wednesday that it was e

When the worst drought in 50 years hit the Midwest last summer, farmers felt both joy and anguish.

The disruption in crude oil supplies from Alaska led to a staggering drop in inventories for the wee

A law giving one of China's free-enterprise cities the right to make its own laws ran into unprecede

Itel Corp. states a clear corporate goal of long-term growth and good cash flow in its new 1988 annu

MOSCOW WON'T REPLY ON LIBYAN BOMBER SALEThe Soviet government would not confirm or deny repo

ELDERS FUTURES INC. (New York) - Thomas F. Mallon Jr. was named executive vice president and group m

Gerald P. Toomey of Puerto Rico Marine Management Inc. and John W. Snow ofCSX Corp. will be

Hamburg-Sud, West Germany's second-largest shipping group, said Wednesday its 1988 profit was satisf

A management group from Uniroyal Chemical Co. reached an agreement to buy the company from Avery Inc

The air cargo boom continues at the three airports in the New York metropolitan area. Last y

Air Jamaica faces a fine of up to $28.8 million following seizure by the U.S. Customs Service of 3,5

Monsanto Co. and the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences have signed an agreement to establish the first jo