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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

International Design Forum 88. Oct. 19-23. World-reknown designers will be meeting with manufacturer

The world aviation industry has a bright future despite some problems on the horizon, executives at

EDI is too important to be left to the techies, a leading expert warns. When it comes to tur

Brent A. Stienecker, president of the Pacific Division of Crowley Maritime Corp., is pretty happy he

Bath Iron Works will pay only a fraction of a record $4.2 million fine for alleged health and safety

Ford Motor Co. Tuesday announced plans for its largest investment ever in Britain, a 725 million ($

The Federal Reserve reported in its beige book Tuesday that there is continued economic growth in mo

Price-to-earnings ratios of over 50 should not dissuade investors from the Japanese stock market.

A $2 billion harbor and navigation project bill and a package of ocean pollution control measures ha

Prompted by an airborne chemical spill last February, the National Transportation Safety Board Tuesd

Electronic data interchange's time has come. That's what Seiko Time Corp., Mahwah, N.J., bel

The truck was somewhere between Denver and Los Angeles. In the back was a load of temperature-sensit

This harbor faces a dilemma: its ship channels will choke up if new dump sites aren't found for its

If ever there was a modern-day David and Goliath story, it surely is Soviet President Mikhail Gorbac

A Texas gay rights group says it is discriminatory for a life insurance company to require people wh

Many of Silicon Valley's high-technology companies have a dirty little secret: In complying with gov

US HELD HAMPERING TRADE TIES WITH CHINAA senior Chinese official, in unusually blunt critici

The United States will police European Community plans to create a common internal market by 1992 to

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

American Telephone & Telegraph Co. wants to cut its basic interstate long- distance rates by an aver

When Crowley Maritime Corp.'s Washington representative goes into a congressman's office to urge som

Hong Kong's new stock exchange council Tuesday named its chairman and chief executive, ending a near

With this summer's drought, and votes to provide large disaster payments to farmers still ringing in

ALLEGHANY ADVANCES ON ST. PAUL STOCK BIDAlleghany Corp. announced Tuesday that its applicati

Agriculture officials in five Caribbean islands are developing plans to fight the possible damage th

Oct. 18, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

CHEVRON, MOBIL HIKE POSTINGS BY 75 CENTSChevron U.S.A. increased by 75 cents a barrel its po

Steel production fell to 1.797 million tons in the week ended Oct. 15, a decrease of 2.1 percent fro

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

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

Sharp Offers Laptop With Graphics DisplayNEW YORK - Sharp Electronics Corp. has introduced a

ABF FREIGHT OPENS NJ, IND. TERMINALSFORT SMITH, Ark. - ABF Freight Systems Inc. recently ope

A lot can go wrong in the tricky business of ship chartering. Contracts can dissolve into no

Buy a square yard of France for about $1.50 and drive the railroad bureaucrats crazy while lending a

Ciba-Geigy Corp., a Swiss-based manufacturer of dyes and epoxy resins, is under heavy public critici

A state judge dismissed a lawsuit against Union Carbide Corp. that sought $1 billion in damages for

AIDS, already a problem for the life and health insurance industries, now is producing workers compe

Noel Phillips, president and chief executive of Volkswagen of America Inc., the West German carmaker