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South Korea scored a diplomatic triumph Wednesday when Hungary became the first communist country to

PA. RESIDENTS MAY GET REFUNDS ON FUEL OILHARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania Attorney General Ern

U.S. oil refiners will spend about $5 billion in 1989 to spruce up gasoline stations and boost marke

Buoyed by the success of consumer revolts in California, legislation that would create an independen

Polaroid Corp. intensified its battle against hostile suitor Shamrock Holdings Inc. with the filing

EC ENLARGES QUOTA FOR INDONESIAN TEXTILESJAKARTA, Indonesia - The European Community has agr

The Maritime Administration's Subsidy Board Wednesday approved the $34 million acquisition by Intern

By the end of 1989, the Port of Baton Rouge will have a brand new dock and a lighter pocketbook.

A New Orleans company has won Environmental Protection Agency approval of two marine paint products.

PA. SUES SERVICE FIRM OVER SENIORS INSURANCEHARRISBURG, Pa. - A Pittsburgh consumer-service

Marsh & McLennan Cos. reported that operating income for the fourth quarter ending Dec. 31, 1988 was

The cost of employer-sponsored health care plans leaped 18.6 percent per worker last year after two

Independent petroleum marketers released a survey Tuesday predicting that nearly 27,000 of the natio

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

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

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

Terry Hanks has about 30 Yugos on the lot of Sundance Chevrolet in Lansing, Mich., and he's wonderin

Clothing importers who for decades have bought most of their merchandise from Hong Kong, Taiwan and

JAPAN CAR EXPORTS DIP BELOW DOMESTIC OUTPUTBooming domestic sales and a shift to overseas pr

TRAVELERS MUST RENEW CALIF. AUTO POLICIESThe California Department of Insurance Tuesday rule

Is Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev really in trouble with Russian conservatives? Andrei S

Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia will debate changing their liability laws this year

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP INC. (New York) - Ernest E. Stempel was named to head this insurer's li

The Port of Marseilles-Fos slipped to third place in the European maritime traffic league last year,

President Bush Tuesday told U.S. Navy seamen and shipyard workers in Norfolk, Va., that he intends "

UMW TO POSTPONE STRIKE AGAINST PITTSTONThe United Mine Workers of America announced Tuesday

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

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

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

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

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

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

A new panel created last week by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange board of governors to review all CM

Strong U.S. computer sales, a weaker dollar and a sharp drop in British oil exports helped the Unite

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Tuesday approved the nominations of Samuel

Pension plan administrators do not have to tender shares of stock under their control merely because

BP America Inc., British Petroleum Co.'s U.S. operating unit, will use a redesigned green and yellow

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

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