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Oil prices in the United States and Europe weakened Friday, reversing briefrallies that had

Most of the world's 1.8 billion urban dwellers breathe air of unacceptable quality, according to a s

Transportation Secretary Jim Burnley announced a new initiative to combat traffic congestion and veh

Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. said it will maintain deliveries of all sales and transportation gas

The U.S. partner in China's huge open-cast coal mine is spending $9 million to renovate coal dressin

Union Carbide Corp.'s UCAR coatings resins group has announced increases of 4 cents a pound for Flex

SNF-Floerger and its U.S. subsidiary Chemtall Inc. are increasing production capacity of dry and emu

LyphoMed Inc. agreed last week to destroy or clean up hundreds of thousands of injectable drugs seiz

PFIZER RAISING PRICES FOR CITRATESThe chemical division of Pfizer Inc. is increasing prices

The U.S. Army and the Stearns-Roger division of United Engineers & Constructors Inc., Denver, are bu

Memtek Corp. and Sulzer Brothers Ltd., of Winterthur, Switzerland, have agreed to use Memtek equipme

A Rutgers University food-packaging researcher has developed a novel way of measuring the deteriorat

CHINESE WILL INCREASE SODA ASH PRODUCTIONThe longstanding shortages of soda ash supplies in

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USAir Leasing and Services, a subsidiary of USAir Group, served as the remarketing agent for the sal

PLANES, POLITICS AND PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS merged when a senior senator last week questioned the gr

Demand for air cargo planes will continue to grow during the next decade, with more and more freight

EASTERN FAILS TO MAKE PENSION PAYMENTEastern Air Lines failed to meet a Sept. 15 deadline fo

Breathing life into its aging Sperry line, Unisys today will unveil its most powerful family of main

Sitting at his computer screen, the air freight broker carefully studied the glowing green display a

The largest shipper in the world has seen the light and will start pilot testing an electronic data

QPSX Communications Inc. said Mondaythat it and Bell Atlantic Corp. will test early next year theAus

CROWN CENTRAL TO USE J.C. PENNEY NETWORKBALTIMORE, Md - Crown Central Petroleum Corp. has si

The freight futures prices continued to move downward last week, as traders continued to re-evaluate

Apple Computer Inc. was slated to introduce a faster, cheaper version of its long-lived Apple II com

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The American Association of Port Authorities' newly elected board is made up of nine officers, up fr

More than 380 million tourists will travel abroad this year, a 7 percent increase over 1987, the Mad

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It's been four years in the making, but now the association representing Western Hemisphere ports is

The growth in U.S. exports will likely slow as many industries reach production capacity, U.S. Trade

U.S. production and employment will keep growing but inflation will also continue to increase, a mon

A Republican congressman is offering employers the ultimate trade-off, proposing that they give up r

U.S. exporters are missing opportunities presented by the apparent end of the Iran-Iraq war and the

As expected, the United States and 15 other industrial nations relaxed strategic export controls on

A continuing boom in investment and residential construction has prompted economists to revise upwar

A bank economist says employment growth has been phenomenal in Sacramento, adding that the state cap

Business inventories rose only a modest 0.3 percent in July even though sales were down by 0.2 perce

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