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The mounting debt burden of Third World nations and ways to ease it emerged as major issues at a mee

Prospects for this year's drought-plagued U.S. corn crop appear to have improved slightly during Aug

FUJITSU MICROELECTRONICS INC. (San Jose, Calif.) - Tim B. Brown was named vice president and general

IBM OBTAINS LICENSE FOR APOLLO SOFTWAREApollo Computer Inc., striving for a comeback, said t

OHIO PORTS GENERATE HIGH REVENUE, SALESCOLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio's ports and terminals annually

Fleming Cos., of Oklahoma City, said it has hired more than 4,000 workers to replace Teamsters membe

President Reagan was expected to sign legislation late Friday imposing a labor settlement at the Chi

The Lloyd's of London insurance market expects to be doing business in West Germany by the beginning

American Electric Power Service Corp., Lancaster, Ohio, said it is seeking coal supply offers rangin

European oil prices Friday staged a fragile rally after slumping to their lowest level since Novembe

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Statistics compiled on petrochemical trade for the first semester of 1988 by the National Petroleum

JAPANESE TO STUDY OPTION TRADING IN USThe Tokyo Commodity Exchange for Industry will send an

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

A former White House personnel official and a 37-year insurance veteran were named to head American

Proponents of a November ballot proposition in California that would cut car insurance rates said We

For the week ended Aug. 27, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

The idea of buying fast-food in Paris may be sacrilegious, but it's also expensive. The cost

Soviet officials say their country's exports are targeted to increase 2.2 to 2.4 times in volume by

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The article, Creditors' Agency Uses Barter To Collect on Some Frozen Debts, which appeared on Page 1

Corn Yellow maize, moisture 12.5 percent, afflatoxin not more than .035 percent, insect bite

REICHHOLD HIKES TOFA PRODUCTSPENSACOLA, Fla. - The Coating Polymers and Resins Division of R

Carlton Communications PLC said Friday it agreed to buy U.S.-based Technicolor Holdings Inc., the fo

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

Acting U.S. Treasury Secretary Peter McPherson criticized as protectionist European Community propos

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NEWARK, LUANDA FORM 'SISTER CITY' PACTNEWARK, N.J. - The mayor of the state's largest city s

Corona Extra, the second-leading imported beer in the United States after Heineken, may become a vic

Ports along the Yangtze River in China are becoming increasingly involved in both foreign trade and

The 0.6 percent increase in the August Producer Price Index looked bad, but it wasn't, analysts said

The TRW Business Payment Index shows the nation's business maintaining a robust ability to pay bills

HUB-ONE, HUB-TWO, but will there be many more? Only time will tell, say officials of Federal

FEDERAL, CALIF. AGENCIES SETTLE AEROJET CLEANUPSACRAMENTO, CALIF. - Federal and state agenci

Boosted by rapid growth in the southern coastal region New Jersey's population grew to about 7.7 mil

The Massachusetts Senate will take up auto insurance reform legislation Sept. 19. There will

WORLD BANK MAY LEND $500 MILLION TO NIGERIAWASHINGTON - The World Bank expects to reach an a

The first onshore wildcat wells in Thailand's far south will be sunk by Gulf Exploration Consultants

Prices for home heating oil this winter are likely to drop 5 to 10 cents a gallon from last year bec

Saying they hope to avoid having their port director hired away by private industry, Tacoma port com