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

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

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

CUMMINS REPORTS LOSS FOR 4TH QUARTER, YEARCOLUMBUS, Ind. - Cummins Engine Co.'s fourth quart

Indo Product '89. Through Feb. 12. Hall of Nations Jakarta Fairgrounds. Indonesia's national product

U.S. consumers took on $5.439 billion more consumer installment credit than they paid off in Decembe

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

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

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

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The South Korean government has announced plans to boost overseas investment in an effort to reduce

U.S. companies plan to boost capital spending significantly this year to modernize facilities and ta

Increased Japanese crude steel production during 1988 has led to a jump in volumes of Canadian coal

Mid Pacific Air Corp., a cargo charter airline, is seeking fitness certificates and federal authorit

WHEN DESMOND J. LYONS left the Ford Motor Co. 15 years ago to enter the air cargo industry, his init

JAPAN REPORTS RISE IN CONSUMER SPENDINGJapanese consumer spending rose during the October-De

LALLY WILL SPEAK ON AIRLINE SECURITYA national expert on airline security, Richard F. Lally,

In case you have been holding your breath waiting for the government to start reporting monthly merc

The country's first magnetic-levitation train system will be built to transport guests at the Resort

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

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

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

Japan's Shipbuilding Research Association has reported successful completion of a six-year project r

ALGERIA - $58 million from the World Bank for locust control and meteorological systems. A 15-year l

GENERAL RE CORP. POSTS NET INCOME INCREASESTAMFORD, Conn. - General Re Corp. reported that o

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Tue., Feb. 7, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

OAKS NAMED ASSISTANT VP FOR CSX DISTRIBUTIONJames C. Oaks was appointed assistant vice presi

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

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

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

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

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

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

A shipwright wielding a mallet hammers wooden pegs into the unfinished hull of a sailing ship. About

Two Lebanese brothers suspected of laundering more than $1 billion in drug profits through Swiss ban

Finance Minister Pierre Beregovoy Tuesday announced plans for a major overhaul of the French insuran