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A new study shows that hourly workers will receive the smallest raises of any type of employee next

The next president must take major steps to turn around a U.S. economy destabilized by an entrenched

Monopoly, the American board game that has taught generations of youngsters how to be good capitalis

Despite Roger Smith's vow that General Motors Corp. will again control 40 percent of the U.S. car ma

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W. GERMANY TO WIDEN ITS SOVIET VENTURESBONN, West Germany - West Germany hopes to launch maj

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For Americans, the year 1992 signifies the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the New World by a

U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter said Tuesday the fate of the multilateral trade negotiatio

The evolving working relationship between Crowley Maritime Corp. and the International Longshoremen'

Owners from 13 trans-Pacific shipping lines meeting in San Francisco Monday failed to reach any sort

Canada's powerful pulp and paper industry strongly backs the U.S.-Canada free trade deal scheduled f

Pillsbury Co. has turned to the Shipping Act in its battle to fend off a hostile takeover bid from G

A national conglomerate is now controlling China's onshore oil and natural gas exploration and produ

Contract talks have passed the one-year milestone at Eastern Air Lines. It opened negotiations with

A nice, gentlemanly, well-regulated and comfortable industry seems to have become a tiger pit filled

'Tis the season for container shortages. To address that problem, Containair Systems Corp. of Spring

A Belgian charter carrier intends to add a dozen Boeing 737-300s worth $350 million to its fleet, Bo

U.S. airlines recorded unexpectedly strong passenger traffic in September, leading some on Wall Stre

UNITED, BOEING DISCUSS DETAILS OF NEW ORDERUnited Airlines is working on a $2 billion deal w

Faced with changes in trade, automation and competition, freight forwarders and customshouse brokers

ALL IN THE FAMILY is one of the best ways to describe rail industry use of EDI. In many ways

Compaq Computer Corp. Monday introduced its long-awaited full-function laptop computer that is small

U.S. shipbuilders are convinced that direct government support is needed if they are to compete succ

NEW SYSTEM UPGRADES HAND-HELD COMPUTERSCLEARWATER, Fla. - Micro Palm Computers has released

MARYLAND SHIP BEGINS NEW CONTAINER SERVICENORFOLK, Va. - Maryland Ship Inc. has begun a new,

Falcon Carriers Inc. is considering its options following last week's reinstatement of a disputed Mi

American President Lines Ltd. and Sea-Land Service Inc. contend the Federal Maritime Commission shou

Sea-Land Service Inc. used a foreign-flag vessel to move a container-handling crane from Long Beach,

Negotiations between Port of Baltimore and labor officials on the operation of the embattled Seagirt

Occidental Chemical Corp. increased list prices of flaked chromic acid by 2 cents a pound for produc

The real heroes of the chemical industry are not the financial officers who helped to turn chemical

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FLEXEL INC. (Atlanta) - Flexel is adding two new business units: cellulose products and polymer prod

The U.S. appetite for foreign chemicals continued to rise in August, pushing imports up nearly a fou

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Tampa Electric Co., a unit of Teco Energy, said its retail electricity sales for the third quarter w

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A Wyoming district court has issued a swift ruling in favor of Shell Mining Co. in a dispute over th

Oil prices continued to recover on news that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries might