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THERE MAY BE A FEW STALWARTS around who fondly recall that brief period a generation ago when there

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's remarks Tuesday that the U.S. trade deficit could narrow w

U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh has announced the formation of six securities and commoditi

Brazil and the United States failed to renew their longstanding bilateral civil air accord in 1982,

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Tourists, business travelers and air cargo shippers between Brazil and the United States will have m

Brazilian flagship airline Viacao Aerea Riograndense, Varig, seems to have the pole position for the

NEAR-MISSES IN THE AIR FELL SIGNIFICANTLY IN '88Near-midair collisions dropped 33 percent in

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Millipore Corp. announced the opening of a joint research and development center with the Soviet Uni

Canada's pulp and paper industry is looking forward to its third year of robust growth and is not co

Production of plastics resins totaled 4.54 billion pounds in October, up approximately 8.9 percent f

President Bush's choice to run the Environmental Protection Agency won Senate praise and criticism T

ICC SETS CONFERENCE ON TRAILER TRAIN BIDThe Interstate Commerce Commission will hold an open

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Yellow Freight System Inc.'s fourth quarter earnings rose to $18.8 million, or

The Justice Department's proposed settlement of its racketeering suit against the Teamsters union ne

Read its lips: the U.S. government has no plans to start legislating electronic data interchange.

Overseas coal exports through the Gulf of Mexico were up in 1988, despite a summer drought that brou

The state of New York has asked the trustee administering the bankrupt Delaware & Hudson Railway to

IBM RIVALS SEE ESA AVAILABLE AT END OF '89A group of rivals to International Business Machin

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Three maritime labor organizations are supporting International Shipholding Corp.'s planned $34 mill

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

Shipping lines serving the Mediterranean are warning that the 12-day-old Italian dockworkers' strike

The depreciation of the deutsche mark raised the danger in West Germany of imported inflation, Bunde

BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN & CO. (New York) - Walter W. Grist and W. Perry Welch were appointed senior

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

S. KOREA LISTS TOTALS OF FOREIGN SECURITIESSEOUL, South Korea - South Korean institutional i

Argentina has effectively abandoned its hopes of arranging a standby loan with the International Mon

The West's financial leaders appear to have won a battle to curb wild currency swings but economists

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The United States is likely to be the largest single supplier of wheat to China in 1988-89 due to lo

Eastman-Kodak Co. is negotiating joint venture deals with the Soviet Union, but doesn't expect the t

Cheaper prices for seats at the Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange have aroused

The head traders of Philipp Brothers Inc.'s copper desks in New York and London resigned last week o

EUROPEANS STRENGTHEN MIDEAST WHEAT SALESThe European Community continues to push wheat into

PERESTROIKA REPORTED AIDING SOVIET ECONOMYDespite empty shelves, long lines and grumbling co

SPECTRA, ITALIAN FIRM SIGN MARKETING PACTHANOVER, Mass. - Spectra Pharmaceutical Services In