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Computer-aided design techniques can be useful to commercial shipbuilders, says a Massachusetts Inst

SMITHKLINE BECKMAN POSTS DROP IN NETSmithKline Beckman Corp. net income for the second quart

A fleet of little wooden dhows glide daily past the supertankers and warships of the Persian Gulf, c

After Shell Oil Corp.'s refinery in Norco, La., exploded May 5 causing death, injury and property da

M&T Chemicals is increasing the price of all its impact modifiers and process aids, effective Sept.

More tourists abandoned the Tuscan coast last week as Italian authorities banned bathing along a six

Large Japanese companies from a variety of non-pharmaceutical sectors are targeting that country's d

The U.S. barge industry won another round in Congress Tuesday when the Senate Finance Committee vote

In a weedy field, amid abandoned railroad tracks and stacks of 55-gallon drums, stands an old brick

SMITHKLINE BECKMAN CORP. (Philadelphia) - James H. Cavanaugh resigned as president of Smith Kline &

CHINA PETROCHEMICAL PLANS ETHYLENE PLANTGUANGZHOU, China - China Petrochemical Industrial Co

Steel production fell to 1.905 million tons in the week ended July 23, a decrease of 2.2 percent fro

A federal agency's decision to allow AIDS patients to import treatment drugs that have not been appr

Once again, the Labor Department's quarterly look at wage and benefit costs showed a gain in the cos

Marshall E. Murdaugh, president of the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau and former commissione

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Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. have been experimenting with plastic- body sports cars.<

The effort to bring trade in services such as banking, insurance and transportation under the Genera

GAS EXPLOSION HITS ILLEGAL MINE IN CHINAA gas explosion at an illegal coal mine in southwest

HEAT WAVE STRAINS SHANGHAI POWER SUPPLYShanghai's 12 million residents, sizzling in a record

Britain's oil industry could suffer development delays and rising operating costs stemming from the

New York State Electric & Gas Corp., Binghamton, N.Y., thinks the future of the state's industrial e

July 26, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Southern California Edison Co. has proposed a $2 billion merger with San Diego Gas & Electric Co., i

A decision on replacing or supplementing Hong Kong's present single-runway airport may be made next

Atlantic Richfield Co., Los Angeles, said it confirmed the discovery of a significant natural gas de

SANTOS FINDS OIL FIELD IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIAADELAIDE, Australia - A major oil field was disco

Despite the shrinkage in traffic due to the downturn of Eastern Air Lines' fortunes, officials at Mi

The European Community Commission Tuesday unveiled tougher rules covering agreements between Europea

AIRBORNE EXPRESS POSTS INCREASE IN EARNINGSSEATTLE - Airborne Freight Corp., which operates

Intermodal containers are backing up at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach as some independent

In a way the dinner-time discussion with J.M.C. McDougall was a duplication of those I had had over

Ansaldo of Italy's state IRI-Finmeccanica group moved up to third place worldwide in the manufacture

STRIKING RAIL WORKERS ARRESTED IN S. KOREASEOUL, South Korea - South Korean police arrested

Guilford Transportation Industries wants to question a U.S. Senate staffer in hopes of proving polit

They were once the royalty of the Mississippi, their towering smokestacks billowing out balls of ste

The National Shoe Fair of America. Leading international footwear manufacturers will show off the la

North Atlantic ports' hopes of winning business diverted from the drought- shrunk en Mississippi Riv

Domestic exports in June were up 11 percent on those of a year earlier to HK$18 billion (US$2.3 bill

Porsche, the luxury sports car maker, said Tuesday it would launch a drive to recapture its image of