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Traffic, high fares and tolls, and changing demographic and work patterns have resulted in fewer peo

HIGHWAY CONGESTION WORSENING, SURVEY SAYSHighway congestion is so severe that motorists are

IT MAY WELL BE, as Ellis Parker Butler assured us, that pigs is pigs. But the analogy doesn't work f

Another virus has been discovered in packaged computer software, raising further concerns about the

Indonesia opened the door Tuesday to new stock markets, leasing companies and insurance firms to hel

A story on Page 4A of the Dec. 19 Journal of Commerce, under the headline U.S. Customs Sets Up Speci

Chinese officials who deal with foreign countries are the target of a massive anti-corruption campai

Franklin Bornillo spends most of his time gambling and wakes up at night after nightmares to the sou

NEW ENGLAND: Eastern Utilities Associates, Boston MID-ATLANTIC: Long Island Lighting Co., Hi

The value of chemical exports plunged by $500 million in October, and new data on export volumes ind

The Canadian government is rushing proceedings to get the U.S.-Canada free trade legislation approve

Insurance industry lawyers, calling on the state Supreme Court to strike down Proposition 103, charg

SINGER SET TO MAKE ITS RETURN TO CHINASHELTON, Conn. - Singer sewing machines, a well-known

ANOTHER MAJOR AIRLINE is planning to re-fleet soon. Colleague Phil Bangsberg reports that Ca

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The same independent leasing companies that are partly responsible for Boeing Co.'s current boom in

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A new lobbying group for ocean shippers has emerged on the Washington scene. It's called the

Taking its cue from Santa Cruz County, Calif., the city of Santa Cruz Tuesday considered a proposal

Consumer prices dropped slightly in the New York area in November, when lower costs for clothing and

If ever a corporation had a reputation for bad management and Neanderthal policies, it was the old U

Malaysia's trade surplus for the first nine months of the year was M$9 billion (US$3.46 billion), vi

PROVIDENCE WASHINGTON, SWISS INSURER MERGEPROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Baloise, a Basel, Switzerla

US TO COMPENSATE EC FOR OIL IMPORT TAXThe United States has accepted the principle that it s

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Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., one of Congress' sharpest critics of the railroad industry, Tuesday s

COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES EAUX (Paris) - Claudio Elia was named president of Anjou International, the c

In Western Europe last year, during a stay of about three weeks, the U.S. tourist spent an average o

Fax Expo '88. A series of expositions designed to promote the use of facsimile products and technolo

Traffic Reports Continental Airlines reported it flew 3 billion revenue passenger-miles in N

Japanese corporations soon may discover it has become considerably more difficult to evade domestic

Training people to trade foreign currencies can be an expensive proposition for a bank or a corporat

A broad-based group of highway users sought to apply the brakes to any new drive for additional gaso

A rock 'n' roll pirate radio ship that had broadcast beyond the three-mile territorial limit off Lon

Dec. 20, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO. (Wilmington, Del.) - Martin G. Mand will become vice president and tre

After months of delays, Iraq's national steamship company has started servicefrom the United

Charles P.K. Leon runs a lean but aggressive office for the Georgia Ports Authority in this Far East

INDUSTRIAL WORLD SEEN IN BEST SHAPE IN YEARSThe leading non-communist industrial economies t

Commissioners at the Port of Oakland appeared to have enough votes on Tuesday to approve a consultan