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Small U.S. businesses, helped by a lower dollar and a growing appetite for gourmet foods, are fendin

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

The European Community Commission Tuesday approved substantial state subsidies to enable West German

The British Post Office announced Tuesday that its express mail service, Datapost, is being upgraded

A period of low losses and strong competition within the insurance industry are expected to bring do

Two private trucking associations have formally merged into a new trade group representing more than

The Thailand affiliate of U.S. auto giant Chrysler Corp. may have to expand output to meet surging d

Alexander Good, the embattled chief of the U.S. Foreign Commercial Services, will resign Aug. 26.

Tile and Stone Expo. Designed to give dealers and distributors the chance to learn techniques of se

Democratic lawmakers from energy-producing states will meet next month with Gov. Michael Dukakis to

More than 95 percent of A.H. Robins Co.'s stockholders and Dalkon Shield claimants have approved a r

LTV EXPECTS AGENCY TO TAKE OVER PLANThe LTV Corp. expects the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.

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

BANK OF AMERICA (San Francisco) - Merrill Burns was named to manage Bank of America'sdomestic and in

JAPANESE ASK SHULTZ TO END PUNITIVE TARIFFSJapanese Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno Tuesday aske

The selection of Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, as vice presidential running mate for Massachusetts Go

* William B. Reed - Relief for Shackled Utilities 8A * Richard Lawrence - Bees Sting Trade B

The European Shippers' Councils, angered by a proposed general rate increase by the Continental Cana

XTRA CORP. MAKING CHANGESBOSTON - XTRA Corp. is selling one division, keeping another, and e

In last Thursday's issue, Craig Dunlap's Inside Talk From the Southeast on Page 3B should have state

CONSOLIDATED REPORTS NET INCOME INCREASEMENLO PARK, Calif. - Consolidated Freightways Inc. r

Shipping on the Great Lakes will suffer if water is diverted from the Lakes to the Mississippi River

Major interests concerned with restrictions on the carriage of steel imposed by South Korea seem sat

Tue., July 19, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Consumer prices jumped 19 percent in the past year, the government announced Tuesday, acknowledging

At $130 a pound, fabricated advanced polymer composites represent very expensive, high-performance m

A pension research organization suggested that pension managers may begin to move pension investment

The Insurance Services Office Inc. is trying to expand the amount of coverage provided for commercia

Demand and prices for Brazilian paper strengthened last week on evidence that Chase Manhattan Bank w

A British company has developed a diesel outboard motor that is said to offer outstanding fuel econ

Corporations must pay their fair share to help cut the federal budget deficit, Democrats say, but de

The U.S. Postal Service plans major changes in the way it awards $700 million in annual contracts fo

A bill that would require the collection of diesel fuel excise taxes upon the first sale of the fuel

Rail carloadings increased in June for the 17th-consecutive monthly increase over the same month of

The Soviet Union and China have agreed for the first time in their history toallow each othe

MONSANTO CO. SETS EARNINGS RECORDSST. LOUIS - Monsanto Co. reported that its second quarter

The government on Monday ordered the closure of a pesticide plant in Tuscany where an explosion spew

In- cinerex Corp. announced that it successfully performed and passed the trial burn on its mobile h

The only medical malpractice insurance company in Kansas still taking on new doctors as policyholder

The retirement of Robert L. Hintz as chairman of Sea-Land Service Inc. came as no surprise.