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Increased passenger and cargo traffic have helped BAA PLC, operator of seven U.K. airports, to achie

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MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INC. (New York) - Alex W. Pete Hart was named president and chiefexecutive.

REGIONAL BLOCS 12th Annual Miami Conference on the Caribbean: Agribusiness in the Caribbean

The Federal Communications Commission took a major step last week toward making advanced telephone s

Weakened by lower plywood and crude oil prices, The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index on Fr

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s lawsuit over RJR Nabisco Inc. management's giant buy-out plan is o

Canada's inflation rate, measured by the seasonally adjusted consumer price index, rose to 4.2 perce

Wending his way through enough air cargo to fill six 747 freighters, Dave Rystrom sighs. The

Coastal Corp., Kerr-McGee Corp. and Valero Energy Corp. are planning a $104 million processing plant

Federal drug-testing regulations for merchant seamen are no more popular in their final form than wh

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America's new trade act renews rather than dilutes the U.S. commitment to a multilateral trading sys

Presidents-elect George Bush and Carlos Salinas de Gortari are scheduled to meet in Houston Tuesday

Roy Benjamin has a great idea for companies seeking ways to establish themselves in the great Chines

GTE Corp. projected that restructuring of its telephone operations will eliminate nearly 7,000 posit

The European Community reacted coolly at the weekend to an apparent shift in the U.S. position on wo

Few things the California Supreme Court does will arouse or affect the public as much as its action

United Parcel Service Inc. has begun an air raid on Asia, featuring a bid to become the premier deli

The West German gross national product will grow 2.5 percent in 1989, according to a report released

Two stories about the withdrawal of Yangming Marine Transport Corp. from the Port of Houston, which

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

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Brazil is cutting its list of prohibited imports in half, but some 1,250 items, led by automobiles,

A terminal operator at the Port of Long Beach cleared one of the last hurdles it must face in order

Members of Lloyd's of London have elected five new people to the insurance market's ruling council,

TNT Mailfast will introduce a trio of new international remail services in January, part of its ongo

Kerr-McGee Corp., the Oklahoma City-based energy and chemical giant, is moving into eastern Kentucky

When business gets hectic on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, dealers might be heard talking about tuli

The battle between the railroad industry's two primary unions of train operating personnel continues

London-based cocoa trader Gill & Duffus PLC Thursday forecast a new world cocoa surplus of 181,000 m

WORLD BANK AFFILIATE MAKES POLISH LOANWARSAW - Poland's biggest frozen food exporter signed

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Domestic automakers were scheduled to produce 254,504 cars and light trucks this week, down from las

The Port of Portland said it posted a record month for non-grain bulk cargoes in September.

Backers of a ballot measure that would cut insurance premiums on Wednesday accused insurers of payin

OSI Product Integration Conference and Tutorials, Advance Program, Nov. 29- Dec. 2. McLean Hilton, M

When it comes to communicating electronically, talk is rarely cheap. Air Express Internation

The size of Venezuela's first large-scale steam coal mine is expected to double in 1989, with export

AMVEST CORP. (Charlottesville, Va.) - William H. Dickey Jr. joined the coal- marketing subsidiary, I