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China will be forced to make a major policy change and print money to pay hard-pressed farmers, fuel

Electronic data interchange formats seem to be coming slowly to the freight- payment service-bureau

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

A massive Customs Service probe into possible violations by importers has apparently produced very l

Rising demand for shipments of grain and coal will provide owners of dry bulk ships with an improvin

Major shipping lines in the troubled trade from the Far East to the United States agreed to raise ra

Construction spending climbed 0.9 percent in October, the biggest increase in three months, with str

AARP OFFICIAL PROPOSES CATASTROPHIC CARE PLANThe executive director of the American Associat

The man who has headed the London Stock Exchange for the past 12 years is predicting some relaxation

After three years of revving its engines figuratively on the runway, Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Ltd.

American Telephone & Telegraph Co., New York, is cutting thousands of jobs and taking a $6.7 billion

Trailer Train Co.'s introduction of a voice-activated computer system at its field maintenance cente

The West German government and the European Community are taking action to ease the concern of Germa

FPL GROUP (North Palm Beach, Fla.) - James L. Broadhead, a top executive at GTE Corp., will replace

The first futures market in China is likely to be launched late next year - much later than original

Avondale Industries Inc., a shipbuilder in New Orleans, is getting a $100 million loan from a syndic

Tough talk dominated the opening day Thursday of the 12th annual Taiwan-U.S. economic conference, at

The European Community will seek over the weekend to convince its skeptical trading partners that th

An insurance industry study indicates that general liability lawsuits and workers compensation claim

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

Thu. Dec. 1, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K.

Before launching the space shuttle Discovery in September, NASA issued a 72- page press kit to descr

A mega-merger between Trans World Airlines Inc. and Eastern Airlines would be a match made in aviati

MARYLAND PORT ADMINISTRATION (Baltimore) - Linda R. Harned was named manager of the port administrat

NEW LA FEEDER SERVICE WILL CONNECT MEXICOA new California-based shipping line has begun serv

TEXACO TRADING CUTS SOUR CRUDE POSTINGTexaco Trading & Transportation Inc., a unit of Texaco

MACK TOUTING CH600 AS 'TRUCK OF THE '90S'ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Mack Trucks Inc. is touting its ne

Union Texas Petroleum Holdings Inc. Wednesday announced that its subsidiary Union Texas Petroleum Co

NATIONAL STARCH HIKES EMULSIONSBRIDGEWATER, N.J. - National Starch & Chemical Corp.'s Resins

Only 200 of 1,200 tugboat workers who took part in a nine-month strike have been rehired, two weeks

China will be unable to equal the calendar 1987 harvest of 15.3 million metric tons of oil-bearing c

The Frankfurt trade fair company Messe Frankfurt GmbH will host an export- oriented trade fair and c

NORTHVALE, N.J. - A projected increase in sales of Korean-made OB beer in the wake of the Seoul Olym

OMNIBUS TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS ACT OF 1988, FACT SHEET #18. The Trade Act of 1988 amends the Trad

The island of Madeira, an autonomous region of Portugal, is planning to establish an international s

The U.S. dollar pushed slightly higher Thursday in quiet trading as traders awaited today's employme

Negotiations between Airbus Industrie and McDonnell Douglas Corp. over development of the MD-11 supe

When you're rich and getting richer, as the Japanese are these days, a wallet bulging with bills and

A $572 million plan to build a pair of luxury liners at a West German shipyard is on hold pending co