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The British government must act immediately if the decline in the country's merchant shipping fleet

IRANIANS ASK JAPAN TO BOOST OIL IMPORTSAn Iranian delegation Wednesday asked officials of Ja

U.S. businesses and banks are placidly letting aggressive Japanese and Europeans take advantage of t

U.S. cutlery importers slugged it out this week with domestic manufacturers over whether the U.S. In

Traditional Exports Footwear, foodstuffs, wine, steel, cement, fruits and nuts, pottery, jew

The tug and barge industry is almost certain to win relief from a burdensome fuel tax collection sys

Improvement in the U.S. merchandise trade deficit this year will be front- loaded into the first hal

CARGILL ASSUMES LEASE ON GRAIN ELEVATORCHICAGO - Cargill Inc., Minneapolis, will assume Cont

The United States and South Korea are close to an agreement to coordinate strategic export control p

The insurance industry, trial lawyers and motorists all must assume some responsibility for premium

Japan's subtle efforts to gain an influential voice among the world's biggest industrial democracies

The drought has reduced hydroelectricity output to 30 percent of normal in the western United States

Huntsman Chemical Corp. subsidiary Huntsman Chemical Co. Ltd., based in Carrington, England, is incr

Genentech Inc. won its first U.S. patent for its heart attack drug tissue plasminogen activator, or

TWO OF 3 US AIRLINES RESUME HAITI FLIGHTSTwo major U.S. airlines resumed daily flights to Ha

European Community leaders next week may endorse a study that could ultimately lead to a multilatera

The Asia North America Eastbound Rate Agreement is laying off six of the nine employees at its U.S.

A study by WEFA Group for the Ports of Philadelphia suggests Chilean fruit exports will double in th

Wed. June 22, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Year6/22 6/21 Chan

A Federal Reserve study warns that legislation pending before Congress to hike the minimum wage 50 p

Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket durable goods plunged 2.2 percent in May, the steepest dive

Employee benefits have a significant impact on a company's productivity, staff morale and profitabil

The landlocked southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan says it is surprising officials in Beijing w

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has ordered about 30 U.S. and foreign- flag liner companies to

Everyone wants it. People who can locate a little complain that it's not enough. How much you pay fo

Supplies of gasoline and distillate fuel increased last week, according to the latest supply bulleti

Cast in the green glow of her video display terminal, Danielle Taylor, a Long Island travel agent, r

The dollar is headed lower and the Federal Reserve is liable to pull in its credit reins later this

The Supreme Court Wednesday saved pension plans tens of millions of dollars by ruling, 5-4, that emp

Computer pundits call it the democratization of data. With the United States Bureau of the C

DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR RULE COMPLIANCEThe Federal Maritime Commission extended until Sept. 30

The Maryland Insurance Division this week ordered a West Indies-based physicians' malpractice insure

Less than a year ago, as the South African economy began to pull out of a two-year recession, a reco

Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., said he may filibuster against a second trade bill unless changes are

As the sun beat down with unremitting intensity over much of the Midwest this week, a relatively for

BHOPAL CARBIDE PLANT LEAKS TOXIC CHEMICALBHOPAL, India - The Union Carbide plant at Bhopal h

M.A. Hanna Co. has reached a tentative agreement to sell its Wenatchee, Wash., silicon operation to

Some 65,000 plastics enthusiasts from nearly 1,000 companies around the world are estimated to have