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Japan adopted a wide-ranging program on Tuesday to ease government control of the economy and open u

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Tuesday announced plans to build a 40- million-pound-a-year ethylene v

Western Europe is moving rapidly to broaden its economic ties with China, which appears more than re

DEFENSE SEMINAR SET FOR WILMINGTON PORTWILMINGTON, N.C. - Port executives and U.S. military

CSX Transportation Inc. has sharply criticized the drug testing rules proposed by the Federal Railro

The United States should set a goal to eliminate its merchandise trade deficit by 1995, the National

Ten years after forging links with the United States, once denounced by Mao Tse-tung as a paper tige

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

CALIF. TRUCKERS OPPOSE FURTHER DEREGULATIONSAN FRANCISCO - Some 500 angry, sign-toting truck

Purchasing executives envision continued increases in U.S. exports, imports and spending on new plan

The United States is in danger of losing its lead in a key electronic communications effort, accordi

Predicting that 1989 would mark the end of Mexico's prolonged economic crisis, President Carlos Sali

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The auto company Daimler-Benz AG said it may back out of a plan to buy a stake in the state-owned ae

For the U.S. Customs Service, Jan. 1 will be C-Day. The C stands for Canada, code, classific

The Soviet Union's latest agreement to purchase U.S. grain, coupled with a more open trade stance, h

Exxon Co. U.S.A.'s big refinery at Baytown, Texas, has lost 100,000 barrels a day of crude oil proce

The nation's largest trucking and railroad labor unions filed suit in federal district court Tuesday

It's a U.S.-U.S.S.R. joint venture of a different sort, one set up to assist in the creation of othe

MASS. AGENTS OPPOSE FIREMAN'S RE-ENTRYThe Independent Agents of Massachusetts are voicing th

UNIT OF J.P. MORGAN SOLD TO FIRST CHICAGONEW YORK - J.P. Morgan said Tuesday it had agreed t

KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS FIGHTS OFF VIRUSESCHANTILLY, Va. - Knowledge Network Systems Inc. has deve

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Michael Maher, the 79-year-old chairman of Maher Terminals, figures he's always enjoyed the luck of

Maritime trade between the Pearl River Delta of southern China and the port here, already accounting

The White House is likely to announce shortly that it will increase the country's annual sugar quota

A Ponce Superior Court judge has barred any last-minute moves toward privatization of the municipall

COMMERCE TO PROBE CEPHALEXIN IMPORTSThe Commerce Department will probe whether imports from

Puzzled atmospheric scientists have found, to their alarm, that the annual ozone hole over the South

The Israeli government will sell its 74 percent stake in the nation's oil refining enterprise, Oil R

Coast Guard facilities to prevent harbor collisions in New York and New Orleans were closed principa

CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICIT SHRUNK IN 3RD QUARTERThe U.S. current account deficit, the broadest

Hardly ranked among the majors, the Austrian schilling is growing in importance as a portfolio curre

Australian banks have revealed further evidence of eagerness to acquire offshore banks, with a lot o

A record number of tourists, especially overseas visitors, helped save the city from a recession thi

A $150 million tax-free loan from Japan has been signed by China Petrochemical Corp., or Sinopec, fo

FLORIDA FEDERAL SAVINGS (St. Petersburg, Fla.) - John R. Hanschmidt was named senior executive vice

The European Currency Unit is now the fifth most widely borrowed currency in the international banki

Alaska has issued a right-of-way lease giving Yukon Pacific Corp. access to more than 400 miles of s

MATSON ADOPTS PLAN TO PREVENT TAKEOVERThe parent of Matson Navigation Co. announced the adop