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INDEPENDENT POWER PRODUCERS OF NEW YORK (Albany, N.Y.) - Paul F. Van Ryn was named executive directo

Imperial Chemical Industries PLC, Britain's largest industrial company, reported record 1988 net pro

* John Boyd - Economic Beat 3A * Howard Simon - Simon Says 6A* Global Banker: David Novick o

BEAR, STEARNS & CO. (New York) - Duncan Soukup was named to head this investment banking and brokera

The United States may end up being a national island in a globally standardized electronic data inte

IBM PROFIT MARGINS INCREASED IN 1988Profit margins on International Business Machines Corp.'

U.S. importers had better get used to the sight of the National Guard and long lines at southern bor

Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., President Bush's nominee for secretary of health and human services, came u

It used to be that "Aloha" was only a pleasant greeting or a fond farewell. Today, particula

U.S. and other Western creditor countries may need to forgo loan payments in order to revive the eco

Britain's farmers fully support the more pragmatic position emerging from Washington on the question

Leasing rates for ocean cargo containers are on the rise again in Asia, and many in the industry thi

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The Interstate Commerce Commission restricted the antitrust immunity by which Trailer Train Co. owns

One coal producer came away disappointed and another came away with a new client as a result of the

Restrictions on imported steel benefit steel users in the United States, three top industry executiv

Workers at Mexican factories just across the U.S. border are routinely exposed to toxins because of

The Port of San Francisco will place maritime interests ahead of real estate development, said Micha

A Michigan family that pays $1,000 a year for auto insurance could eventually save up to $350 annual

CHINA ASKS S. KOREA FOR $1 BILLION LOANSEOUL, South Korea - China has asked South Korea for

A West German team has found two coal deposits containing about 93 million tons of coal worth an est

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade isn't dead, but the grim reaper is casting some shadows o

Steamship agents will be able to obtain their own standard carrier codes for use when a new bill of

Trans-National Leasing Inc. reported net income for the second quarter of $49,083, or 4 cents a shar

A London broker started court action Thursday to try to prove that the European Community was liable

Norway did for its ailing shipping industry in the early 1980s what the United States did for Chrysl

ARCO, EXXON FIND OIL NORTH OF PRUDHOE BAYANCHORAGE, Alaska - Arco Alaska Inc., a division of

New evidence of damage means an 18-month-old international treaty to protect the ozone layer is alre

The economy should grow well this year with a further narrowing of the trade deficit and with inflat

Imports of electrolytic manganese dioxide from Japan and Greece are unfairly priced, the Commerce De

The U.S. government has taken a crucial step toward adopting a long-sought national sealift policy,

Restricted access to foreign technology and the prospects for another weak sales year for Brazilian

Robert H. Walker may have swiped more than $20 million from the insurance company he led before it b

PAN AM REGISTERS FOURTH-QUARTER LOSSPan Am Corp. in the fourth quarter lost $51.7 million on

MEXICO TO INCREASE OIL PRICES, CUT EXPORTSMexico plans to raise some crude prices by 10 cent

British Airways PLC has decided to wait in line behind Aer Lingus with its application to offer "fif

Airborne Freight Corp. says it will decide in the next three months whether to pull almost 10,000 to

The chemical industry is inexorably moving toward electronic communications systems as a response to

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