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The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday that it is putting landfills off limits to millions

Colombia is known more for its illegal trade than its legal trade, but some people are trying to cha

The giant omnibus trade bill that President Reagan is expected to sign next week will create more te

A Commerce Department official will visit Argentina later this month to promote Argentine investment

ISLAND CREEK GETS MINES IN ENOXY SETTLEMENTLEXINGTON, Ky. - Island Creek Corp., Lexington, K

An insurance brief appearing in the Aug. 8 editions of The Journal of Commerce contained incorrect s

Wed., Aug. 10, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

For a nation with its illustrious seagoing past, the United States has let its merchant marine nearl

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

A high-level Chinese entity that has investments in the United States, Canada, Australia and a large

CONNECTICUT NATIONAL BANK (Hartford) - David M. Goldsholl was named senior vice president in the sec

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

A South Korean chemical company executive and a Korean-born U.S. consultant posted bonds of $100,000

The Reagan administration is making a final push for Senate approval of a series of precedent-settin

Currency traders and analysts said Tuesday's rise in the U.S. discount rate revealed a widening rift

GRACE UNIT STARTS UP METHACRYLATE FACILITYW. R. Grace & Co.'s Evans Chemetics unit has begun

August 9, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

COLORADO-UTE TO GET CLEAN COAL FUNDSThe Energy Department said it agreed to make $20 million

LEASEWAY TRANSPORTATION CORP. (Cleveland) - Anthony J. Kosak was named president and chief operating

Nor-Fishing '88. Norway's largest trade fair and seminars on fishing technology, vessels, ships' equ

President Reagan is expected to sign legislation to require nuclear power companies to take a bigger

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Shipping Corp. is proceeding with plans topurchase Farrell Line

Most of California's Silicon Valley companies still are assessing whether new U.S. trade legislation

BILL WOULD COMBAT ILLEGAL IVORY IMPORTSThe House has approved legislation to bring the Unite

MCI Communications Corp. chairman and founder William G. McGowan's illness came at a crucial time fo

Lloyd's of London reported that insurance losses paid out on ship hulls damaged in the Persian Gulf

CHAD - $22 million from the World Bank's International Development Association for primary schools.

Tue., Aug. 9, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

An unspecified number of million-ton chemical mining projects are being undertaken by China to spur

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Utilities in Illinois and elsewhere in the nation's midsection are being forced to cut power output

Canadian Pacific Ltd. of Montreal reported a 51 percent increase in earnings for the second quarter

The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. will host one-day seminars on automated information syst

James K. Batten, the new chief executive officer of Knight-Ridder Inc., telephoned me in June with a

Standard & Poor's Corp. has lowered the ratings attached to about $445 million of debt issued by The

Australia's marine insurers will be using the International Union of Marine Insurance Conference nex

An 18-year-old high school dropout was charged Monday with the theft of more than $1 million in soph

SHIPPERS HAIL TRUCE IN PERSIAN GULF WARShippers were cautiously optimistic on Tuesday after

James R. Wolfe, chairman and chief executive officer of CNW Corp., died Monday afternoon of cancer.

Steel production fell to 1.890 million tons in the week ended Aug. 6, a decrease of 3.8 percent from