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The American Trucking Associations launched a $1 million information programaimed at increasing the

Maine Maritime Academy Open House. Dec. 10. Open house sponsored by academy's admissions office to o

Americans plan to spend more on Christmas gifts this year than in 1987 as consumer confidence runs h

Legislation to eliminate gender-based rating probably will soon be introduced in the Iowa Legislatur

In years past, Saturday would be drop-dead day at the Right Start catalog house, a California outfit

AS THE GLOBE RACES TOWARD 1989 (at least it seems that way), futures analysts are beginning to make

PANHANDLE TO SELL OFF COAL MINING INTERESTSPanhandle Eastern Corp. will sell its remaining c

DATA DISPATCH, INTIS SET DISTRIBUTION ACCORDMcLEAN, Va.- Data Dispatch Corp. has reached an

Conflo Lines, an ocean freight consolidator, is offering a bi-weekly consolidation service from New

WHAT IT IS: It is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's long-range plan, released in September,

As many as 149 petrochemical expansion and construction projects worth some $5.5 billion are expecte

Production of plastic resins totaled 4.277 billion pounds in September,up approximately 3.7 percent

Greek shipowners want the government to take action against sixEuropean Community nations whose carg

Verolme do Brasil SA, the leading Brazilian shipbuilder, announced a change of ownership and two new

Insurance companies doing business in California said they were moderately pleased with the state Su

The U.S. dollar declined Thursday in quiet, but choppy trading. The dollar slid as some big

Jordan has banned imports of olive oil from the Israeli-occupied West Bank in an apparent power stru

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

Opposition members threatened Thursday to boycott parliament unless Japan's Finance Minister Kiichi

FIERCE STORM HEADING FOR BANGLADESH COASTDACCA, Bangladesh - Still picking up the pieces aft

Pepsico Inc. signed contracts allowing it to expand its capacity in the Soviet Union by five or sixf

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

A declaration on international trade in services was worked out in Montreal by the assembled trade m

DUTCH TRY TO LOCATE 9 CHEMICAL CONTAINERSTHE HAGUE, Netherlands - The Dutch coast guard Wedn

Sen. Frank Murkowski, R-Alaska, called on the U.S. government Wednesday to develop a system that wou

DIAMOND SHAMROCK TO UPGRADE REFINERYSAN ANTONIO, Texas - Diamond Shamrock R&M Inc. plans to

The American Gas Association made a proposal for controlling acid rain that is closely aligned with

The U.S. refinery utilization rate jumped and supplies of gasoline and distillate fuel increased dur

A ship that sailed around the world for two years trying to dump its cargo of municipal incinerator

In the '60s movie classic, The Graduate, a businessman advises the young Dustin Hoffman that the fut

Officials of the Port of Ponce in Puerto Rico this week took their long- running feud with the Puert

The Jacksonville Port Authority hired a new company, headed by a former National Maritime Council pr

A captive insurance company formed by the Illinois State Bar Association has begun issuing professio

The use of the global swap market to hedge interest rate and currency risks is growing rapidly.<

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

Any agreement on freer trade in services must include labor-intensive service industries in which th

Trade ministers from the 96 signatories of the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade negotiated unti

New Year's will bring a new system of commodity classification to U.S. Customs, but changes in the o

The chickens sold in the Soviet Union are so scrawny that shoppers joke the poultry is starved to de

Westinghouse Electric Corp. said Wednesday it has agreed to sell its Unimation robot and automation