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Rainfall for the past two days across much of drought-stricken western Canada has improved crop pros

The U.S. dollar pushed mostly higher Thursday, largely on a rumor out of London that a new dollar-ye

London shipmasters want the International Maritime Organization to require that all road trailers an

Westmoreland Coal Co. of Philadelphia said it was suspending payment of its regular 15-cent-a-share

The government realized some $12 million from its recent sale of 75 barges acquired by the Maritime

They wear veiled clothing in true Moslem tradition instead of conservative business suits, but Mauri

With just six months left in his term, Federal Aviation Administrator Allan McArtor hasn't gone thro

ALGERIA - $160 million from the World Bank to reform Sonelgaz, the state power company, and for an e

Sales of U.S. dollars in recent weeks by the Bundesbank, the West German central bank, aimed to achi

I don't get no respect, says comedian Rodney Dangerfield. Neither does the insurance industr

COURT SAYS SUNOLIN SUBJECT TO REGULATIONTRENTON, N.J. - An appeals court ruled that a chemic

Supplies of key petroleum products followed normal seasonal patterns last week, with gasoline declin

Last month, Belgians began enjoying direct shipments of fresh halibut, king crab and salmon from Ala

The Arab League's Israel Boycott Office on Thursday renewed a 20-year-old ban on drinking Coca-Cola

Here is a list of some rig fires, explosions, collapses and other problems in the storm-swept North

JAPAN LINE LTD. (Tokyo) - Naosuke Yasuda was named president. He was executive vice president.

The unions that won a major arbitration award against Guilford Transportation Industries Inc. last m

The U.S. Coast Guard reopened a Mississippi River channel Wednesday afternoon at Greenville, Miss.,

The stormy relations between the United States and Panama have led to their first confrontation over

Romania, deepening its isolation from its communist allies, Thursday refused to join them in a plan

COMMERCE TO PROBE CHINESE HEADWEAR COSTThe International Trade Commission has cleared the wa

Fourteen states enacted tort reform legislation in the first half of 1988, according to a pro-tort r

The introduction of EDI Central took so long that even GE Information Services' competitors say they

BILL LETS BANKS HANDLE SOME INSURANCE DEALSWASHINGTON - The chairman of the House Banking Co

Tugboat union President Albert Cornette was charged with criminal mischief and riot Thursday after a

South Korea has pledged to reduce tariff rates on 16 U.S. fish products by 1993, but rejected U.S. d

As a severe North American drought dramatized the dangers of rising world temperatures and resulting

Chinese officials are determined to cut output of pop-top beverage cans to curb aluminum alloy impor

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Shipping Corp. deal could pave the way for a shifting of existing subsi

EUROCONTROL NATIONS TO CENTRALIZE DATABRUSSELS, Belgium - Alarmed by growing air traffic, th

ROYAL NEDLLOYD TOLD TO APPEAR IN COURTRoyal Nedlloyd, the Dutch shipping and transportation

The United States gave a broad welcome Thursday to new European Community proposals designed to comb

SPAIN, WORLD BANK IN EXPORT FINANCE PACTMADRID, Spain - World Bank President Barber Conable

Commercial bankers like to be seen, at the end of the day, as a trusting lot engaged in a simple bus

Southwest Airlines continues to defy conventional airline industry wisdom, and for a very good reaso

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak beware, your place in computer history is in danger. Sure, most

Understanding Telecommunications Technologies for Non-Engineers, two-day seminar, July 7-8. Madison

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G.D. Searle & Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto Co., completed the purchase of a French pharmaceutical m

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