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The pressure to cut health costs is more intense than ever, and the market for low-priced generic dr

It is clear that top economic officials of the Group of 7 industrial nations are slowly groping thei

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Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

HOLLY FARMS REAFFIRMS CONAGRA MERGER PLANSMEMPHIS, Tenn. - Holly Farms Corp.'s board Tuesday

SANFORD C. BERNSTEIN & CO. (New York) - Former U.S. Rep. Peter A. Peyser was named national director

OPPOSITION CHAIRMAN TO RESIGN IN JAPANSaburo Tsukamoto, chairman of Japan's opposition Democ

CARBIDE SHARES JUMP AS BIG BLOCK IS TRADEDShares of Union Carbide Corp. rose sharply Tuesday

Two major European Community farming organizations Tuesday called on the community to demand concess

Mexico's Finance Minister Pedro Aspe flew to Washington Monday for talks on renegotiating the countr

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange this spring hopes to extend to five years the span of delivery month

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary-designate Clayton Yeutter Tuesday restated the Bush adminis

WAIVER URGED ON LAW LIMITING SOVIET TRADEThe co-author of a U.S. law limiting trade with the

JAPAN WANTS GO-AHEAD FOR JET FIGHTER WORKJapanese officials discounted U.S. congressional co

A senior aide to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl will meet U.S. officials in Washington this week

The United States can't unilaterally ban imports of products alleged to have infringed U.S. patents,

Congressional leaders and business groups are pressing the Bush administration to reverse a Reagan a

New technology is putting electronic data interchange, or EDI, in the palms of users' hands.

SAMSUNG, COMPUSERVE INK DISTRIBUTION PACTSAN JOSE, Calif. - Samsung Information Systems Amer

A New Jersey pesticide maker filed suit to overturn California's anti-toxics law, saying it overlapp

Scientists can make X-ray beams powerful enough to vaporize sheet metal. Now they are seekin

The United States should undertake a series of initiatives to strengthen its economic ties with Chin

Demand for ocean cargo containers is so strong that box lessors say the abolition of the 50-mile rul

The government has banned foreign shipping companies and agents from coming to India to recruit Indi

Waste Management International Inc. has agreed to purchase 49.9 percent ownership in PEC Engineering

Rohm & Haas Co. announced a price increase on many of its vinyl acetate, vinyl acrylic, styrene acry

The annual rate of production of marketable phosphate rock in November 1988, calculated from reporte

The head of a state-owned company linked to construction of an alleged chemical weapons plant in Lib

Fifty scientists are planning to probe the greenhouse effect under a $6 million program in the Arcti

Air Products & Chemicals Inc. will raise prices for dimethylformamide, specialty amines and methylam

International Minerals & Chemical Corp. announced that its corporate staff of 240 employees will be

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a clarification of its labeling policy for antim

Sea-Land Service Inc. plans to employ only foreign-flag ships in its new vessel-sharing service that

Containers of Jamaican exports destined for the United States will no longer be subject to exhaustiv

U.S. Trade representative Carla Hills extended an olive branch to the European Community Tuesday on

The cost of shipping bulk cargoes such as coal and grain by sea has dropped substantially over the p

American International Underwriters has begun offering U.S. exporters an overseas insurance package

A private group that aims to educate the American public about U.S. trade and development activities

The principal state-owned maritime carrier of the Philippines more than doubled net profit last year

When it comes to clean air standards, truckers in other states are thankful they do not face the str