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The Federal Aviation Administration revealed Thursday an ambitious three-year program to assert more

More than 140 exhibitors and 2,200 delegates are expected to congregate here at a trade show next mo

An anticipated departure of high-level Transportation Department executives has begun with the resig

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS IS BULLISH ON MALAYSIAKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Increased sales and exports

Massive containerships and gleaming white cruise vessels continue to crowd into the Fort Lauderdale

The Port of San Francisco remains confident about improving its rail connection, a port official sai

SOME PRICE RESTRAINTS LIFTED IN YUGOSLAVIABELGRADE, Yugoslavia - Yugoslavia stepped up its a

Air cargo carriers and night-flying passenger airlines may now have the ammunition needed to battle

AIR CARGO EQUIPMENT POSTS DROP IN EARNINGSAir Cargo Equipment Corp. earned $372,109, or 14 c

COMPANIES PICK SIDES IN UNIX STANDARD FIGHTSAN JOSE, Calif. - Adobe Systems Inc., Palo Alto,

Norfolk Southern Corp. stock has been upgraded by Salomon Brothers' Stock Research Dept. Michael H.

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The Ontario government has accused the Canadian federal authorities of showing bias by favoring west

It may be one of the smallest members of the European Community, but Ireland has caught the eye of J

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Massachusetts Central Railroad is hoping to induce ocean carriers to hop on its weekly Boston-Chicag

Brazilian President Jose Sarney's proposal to emulate Asia's booming new economies by establishing e

New claims for state unemployment insurance benefits were made by 371,000 people during the week end

The life insurance industry and two influential members of the House Ways and Means Committee joined

U.S. business partners warned Thursday they will ask the world's major trade regulator to rule on th

Keppel Group, the Singapore maritime and property conglomerate, reports first half 1988 profits up 4

MOBIL UNIT TO EXPLORE FOR OIL OFF TRINIDADA Mobil Corp. unit has received rights to explore

The shortage of vital memory chips has become so severe it is drastically changing the way buyers an

MUNICH RE POSTS DROP IN '87 PREMIUM INCOMEMUNICH, West Germany - Munich Re, the world's larg

COULD TRANS FREIGHT LINES be following its trans-Atlantic slot-chartering partner, Nedlloyd Lines, t

ORIENTAL CHEMICAL, ATOCHEM FORM VENTURESEOUL, South Korea - Oriental Chemical Industry Co. w

BASF FIBRES INC. (Ottawa) - Larry Marshall was named president of this Canadian division of BASF Cor

Increased U.S. chemical exports and continued growth in vegetable oil importsfrom the Far Ea

1191 (Aug. 4, 1988) Previous day - 1192 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

Swapping Latin American loans for equity investments isn't likely to help a bank increase the value

Thu., Aug. 4, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

Mail-order retailer Spiegel Inc. plans to import fewer sweaters and sweat shirts from South Korea wh

The productivity of U.S. non-farm businesses fell at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.7 percen

Growing demand at home, coupled with inadequacies in transportation, caused China's exports of crude

It's a long way from Hingham Harbor to Tokyo Bay, but Talbots, the women's apparel retailer and mail

PHILIPS MANAGEMENT CHANGES ANNOUNCEDEINDHOVEN, Netherlands - In a move to integrate its U.S.

What if the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the soybean loan rate and nobody noticed?

WHERE DID WE put our actuaries? That must have been a surprise to the property/casualty insu

The number of Californians without health insurance jumped 50 percent between 1979 and 1986, and wor

Eight years of war have turned Iraq into one of the Third World's most heavily indebted nations, but