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The United States, conforming with the practice of most other nations, has formally extended the lim

0.2 PERCENT DROP PREDICTED FOR LEADING INDICATORSContinuing a recent pattern of only small c

Malaysia's rubber glove industry, which had ridden high on a worldwide AIDS scare, is going through

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More than half of the overseas airports deemed at risk to terrorism in 1986 and 1987 had inadequate

Many disabled veterans may be missing out on hundreds of dollars' worth of benefits from the Veteran

2 MICH. LIFE INSURERS CONSOLIDATE OPERATIONSGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - American Annuity Life Insu

Eight more ocean freight consolidators filed a complaint against the International Longshoremen's As

AMR Corp., parent of American Airlines Inc., said it plans to greatly increase its operations at Chi

West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher called his Italian counterpart Giulio Andreotti

Thousands of discarded Christmas trees will be tossed into Lake Pontchartrain, gaining new life as a

Past due notices started dribbling in at American Distribution Management Inc. in Morrisson, Colo.,

Canadian National Railway Co., The government-owned railway and communications conglomerate, announc

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. announced several changes in its sailing schedule to Chile and Colombia, t

The Wall Street merger and acquisition industry, celebrating possibly its best year ever in 1988, ex

Southeast Asia's main non-communist countries once again are urging greater internal coordination in

A shift of containerized cargo is believed to have caused a containership to sink this week.

A government commission called Thursday for closing 34 military installations, including five major

West Germany and France, bound by a new defense agreement and headed toward creation of joint embass

Advertisers bombard motorists around the country daily with blips of messages along the roadside, ho

Dec. 29, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The new year should be a good one for U.S. transportation companies, according to a new survey relea

Thu., Dec. 29, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

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Analysts expect the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow less beef and veal to be imported in 198

The debate on European monetary union, with the ultimate goal of a common currency, has been conduc

AMERICAS SOCIETY INC. (New York) - Susan Kaufman Purcell was named vice president for Latin American

US MAY EASE CONTROLS ON UK HOG PRODUCTSThe U.S. Agriculture Department has proposed a reduct

While X-ray machines are severely limited in keeping modern explosives off airliners, researchers sa

The U.S. chemical trade surplus will widen in 1989, with the value of exports increasing 4.5 percent

Brazil's decade-long boom in manufactured exports will continue to boost container traffic through B

LINNUS COMPUTER HELPS HEALTH CARE WORKERSATLANTA - The Write-Top, a portable computer by Lin

South Korea's Trade Policy Council has agreed to plan and implement by early next year detailed meas

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Venezuela will not pay any compensation to Occidental Petroleum Corp. until the country's Supreme Co

The pilots' union at Eastern Air Lines won a round in its legal battle with management when a federa

Prudential Corp. PLC of Britain announced Thursday that it has bought the Australian and New Zealand

The U.S. dollar pared its opening losses and traded mixed Thursday amid light corporate buying.<

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