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The U.S. government's insurance program for U.S. business in developing nations is facing a cutoff t

IBM and AT&T head the list of the top 200 electronics companies in the United States, according to a

An ambitious project to develop a new container and bulk cargo port in southeast England that would

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A California state agency is considering tighter regulations for railroads that move hazardous mater

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

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

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

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

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

A new European Community proposal suggests that the 12-nation bloc and the United States are basical

YEUTTER SUPPORTS TRADE LEGISLATIONU.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter said Tuesday he

The continuing full-scale battle for the right to pay $1.8 billion to buy the Southern Pacific Trans

Burlington Air Express took advantage of higher yields on international air shipments and certain co

A thing so common as a match has become a coveted item in Shanghai. For more than a month no

Tue., July 26, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

A number of factors are working against further improvement in the U.S. trade deficit this year, eco

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of Commerce , U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, Room HCHB

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

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

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

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

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

SOVIETS TO LET POLAND DELAY DEBT PAYMENTSWARSAW, Poland - The Soviet Union agreed to postpon

The United States District Court in Richmond Tuesday entered an order confirming A.H. Robins Co.'s C

Lawsuits charging tobacco companies with failing to warn consumers about the health hazards of smoki

When its insurance premiums soared 300 percent in 1985, the relationship between the Illinois State

The Chinese government is adopting a rare hands-off approach to help a Beijing organization become a

Spain has bowed to pressure from the European Community to speed up the dismantling of its state-con

The owners of two Great Lakes cargo vessels built in 1942, four barges and one fishing craft are see

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Commodity futures traders have stopped counting bushels, and for the moment are counting raindrops a

A July 26 article on insurance for high-risk properties should have specified that the insurability

Gold prices are most likely to stay low following their dramatic plunge of around $15 an ounce Monda

CREDITANSTALT (New York) - Lawrence Ryan was named senior vice president, foreign exchange manager a

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 &

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

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