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PANEL TO CONSIDER MARAD, FMC FUNDINGA $15 billion appropriations bill for various government

FREYMILLER TRUCKING REPORTS DROP IN NETBAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Freymiller Trucking Inc. report

The Kremlin leadership on Friday adopted broad goals for introducing reforms that aim to make govern

The proposed national minimum wage increase will add $48 billion to the wage bill of American busine

Showered with aid for nearly 40 years, Italy's backward south remains steeped in depression and disa

GEORGE BUSH NEEDS A BAKER PLAN. He needs it badly, and he needs it now. Fortunately for the

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New U.S. export orders kept rising at a torrid pace in July as production and prices rose more slowl

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The European Community said Friday it had made progress on "complicated" measures aimed at transform

The United States is about to impose anti-dumping and countervailing duties on imports of electrical

Sandwiched between two ham companies, the Port of Tacoma says it will go whole hog to resolve proble

Cargo shipped in containers worldwide is expected to increase 15 percent by 1990 compared with 1987

The United Transportation Union is asking Congress to order a new cooling-off period to prevent a st

Electronic communications networks are headed for another round of price cutting. They're ma

The president's cabinet-level Economic Policy Council has decided not to retaliate now against four

Bankrupt Scindia Steam Navigation Co. has commissioned a study on resumption of services by its 14 v

Members of the Indian shipowners' Minimum Freight Agreement, or MFA, will raise freight rates on se

Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. said that retail electricity sales increased during the second quarter la

Oil prices drifted in no particular direction on the London market last week as traders awaited the

NERCO EARNINGS FELL DURING SECOND QUARTERPORTLAND, Ore. - Nerco Inc. reported lower earnings

PEMEX TO HIKE EXPORTS OF OLMECA CRUDEMexico will increase exports of its new Olmeca crude oi

An International Energy Agency report with new estimates of European and Japanese coal production su

A New York state assemblyman is pushing for legislation to impose new safety standards on petroleum

PEARSON SELLS UNIT TO AMERADA HESSPearson PLC, the British conglomerate which publishes the<

MERIDIAN OIL INC. (Houston) - L. Edward Parker was named vice president, marketing, effective Aug. 1

Drug smugglers are discovering something legitimate exporters have known for a long time: commercial

Boston Edison Co. received bids from six firms to rebuild an abandoned generating plant, even though

NORTHROP WINS PACT FOR BOEING FUSELAGESNorthrop Corp. was awarded a $730 million contract fr

Australian aviation officials are investigating complaints by United Airlines that facilities at the

Steve Wozniak, who won fame and riches by co-founding Apple Computer Inc., has put his latest high-t

Creating computers that think like people may be the only way to avoid drowning in a sea of data.

Airlines sell a very perishable commodity. You can't sell cargo space or a seat once the pla

Mergers and acquisitions in the computer software and services industry heated up to record levels i

With Asian manufacturing and shipping moving inexorably southward, Thailand and India are facing inc

The 199th Anniversary of the U.S. Customs Service. Aug. 1. A celebration of the formalization of U.S

JAPAN, NETHERLANDS FACE ANTI-DUMPING DUTIESThe International Trade Commission cleared the wa

Chinese workers have struck at least 21 times since 1986 in Shenzhen, a special economic zone, and m

The United States and China have signed a first governmental pact to promote cooperation in the fiel

Trade Minister John Crosbie said he will amend implementing legislation for the U.S.-Canada free-tra