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JAPANESE PARTIES AGREE ON TAX REFORMTOKYO - Japan's ruling and opposition parties Friday agr

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: Sea-Land Service is having a hard time dispelling rumors that the Grea

Massachusetts' ongoing state budget problems pose a threat to the future of the Massachusetts Mariti

Under the sunlit arch of a plastic greenhouse, an artificial swamp of cattails and elephant grass sp

CHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATES INC. (Boston) - Michael A. Kemp was promoted to vice president, transportat

For the week ended July 2 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 116

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U.S. export sales of grains and soybeans are expected to remain brisk for the second half of 1988, r

Business inventories rose 0.6 percent in May to a seasonally adjusted $728.39 billion following a 0.

The Chubb Corp. announced last week that it will issue rain insurance policies valued at $40 million

Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney is expected to announce a final go- ahead today for the devel

Japan may finally be in the process of ending its easy monetary policy of extremely low interest rat

The USDA is expected to raise the U.S. sugar import quota before the start of the 1989 fiscal year o

Bank of America realigned its world banking group, creating two offshore divisions. A Europe

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POLYSAR, LUMMUS CREST PLAN JOINT VENTURESARNIA, Ontario - Polysar Basic Petrochemicals' chem

New overseas demand for hardwood logs from deep in the heart of Dixie has forest product companies f

Ship lines have sent different signals to the Maritime Administration on a proposed policy that woul

Orient Overseas Container Line said it will alter its North Atlantic service starting July 25.<

Soviet efforts to improve trade relations with the rest of the world appear to be paying off in Asia

Three automobile manufacturers and three oil distributing companies in Japan have joined to launch a

An administrative law judge is going to allow a trade association's complaint of unfair practices ag

July 15, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

LILCO DEAL HITS SNAG IN NY LEGISLATUREAn agreement between Long Island Lighting Co. and New

All over Asia this morning, businessmen and women are emerging from buses,trains, taxis and

Satellite communication systems developed principally for shipping are poised to revolutionize the w

Hundreds of people have resigned their membership in Lloyd's of London's insurance market this year

Statistics compiled on petrochemical trade for April 1988 by the National Petroleum Refiners Associa

California officials are studying plans to accredit three independent inspection centers in Taiwan t

Despite foreboding, bus czar Fred G. Currey and his investor groups sank millions last year into reb

AMERICAN CRUISE LINES CONSIDERING MERGERHADDAM, Conn. - American Cruise Lines Inc., which pr

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The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index slipped last week, then started edging back up, resti

Export Documentation, Shipping & Insurance. July 19. U.S. Custom House, Room 158, 721 19th St., Denv

Pistachio growers, mail carriers and free-lance writers are in for tax breaks under a bill approved

The Tennessee Valley Authority said that during the second week of July it awarded four spot contrac

Americans for Energy Independence is an independent public interest policy association based in Wash

COMPETITORS JOIN FORCES IN GAS PIPELINE PROJECTSHELTON, Conn - Two companies that were compe

CRUM & FORSTER COMMERCIAL INSURANCE (Basking Ridge, N.J.) - James A. Stark was named chief executive

If Warren L. Basler has his way, DC-3 airliners still will be flying when the venerable Douglas Airc