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The world will face critical shortages of major feed grains in response to changing food consumption

Bank of New York Co. said Wednesday that during direct talks with Irving Bank Corp., it had proposed

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DATA INDICATE DROP IN DOMESTIC DEMANDTreasury Secretary James Baker said Wednesday the decli

Guilford Transportation Industries Inc.'s plan to lower its labor costs by leasing its railroads thr

Leaders of the world's seven major industrial democracies probably will press to improve dispute set

BCP Ship Management Ltd., the joint venture company set up earlier this month by Canadian Pacific Sh

OIL PRICES EXPECTED TO REMAIN STEADYVIENNA, Austria - Oil prices for the second half of 1988

Smiles all around were the order of the day at Bergesen d.y. after the Norwegian ship company report

Lend Lease Trucks Inc. wants to alter its image. The full-service truck lessor is carving ou

BRAZIL - $195 million from the World Bank for a $435 million irrigation project in the country's cen

A trade liberalization drive under way in Taiwan for 18 months is yielding greater access to the mar

Japanese automaker Mazda Motor Corp. said it formed two new U.S. companies, Mazda Motor of America I

Eastman Kodak Co. has introduced several new products including a line of batteries designed to take

Production at the nation's factories, mines and utilities rose a moderate 0.4 percent in May, the ei

The U.S. balance of payments on goods and services, or current account, widened to a seasonally adju

Senate Republican Whip Alan K. Simpson, R-Wyo., said Wednesday he was close to working out a comprom

A record number of flights will clog air corridors over Europe this summer, strain heavily traveled

New Jersey Transport Brokers' Association, topic of monthly meeting will be credit and collection, J

The pharmaceutical wholesale industry has become a vital link between drug manufacturers and pharmac

IF THERE'S POLITICAL CONTROVERSY in the air, then this must be Port Everglades. Actually, th

James Bouskos, a businessman who founded and ran an international trading company, has been named a

Several hundred union longshoremen are expected in Jacksonville, Fla., this morning to protest what

WALBRO, SWEDISH FIRM PLAN JOINT VENTURECASS CITY, Mich. - Walbro Corp. has signed an agreeme

South Korea's largest furniture manufacturer and exporter said it's time to expand its presence in t

LABOR DISPUTES TO SLOW S. KOREA'S GROWTHSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's economic growth r

The low value of the U.S. dollar is expected to limit the amount of goods the United States buys fro

Retail sales, held back by lagging car buying, rose a scant 0.1 percent in May, after a relatively r

A model law banning insurance brokers from placing business with insurers they control met heated op

Tanker and bulk ship resale prices are on the rise. The higher valuations mean more business for mar

Federal Express Corp.'s decision to use a waybill system rejected by Tokyo places the U.S. governmen

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U.S. Maritime Administrator John Gaughan said he is increasingly pessimistic about the prospects for

TOP STORIES: Small businesses in the Midwest are offered an intensive two-day seminar sponso

Sea-Land Service Inc. is increasing its capacity in the Puerto Rican trades by 30 percent with the i

The Federal Maritime Commission will consider tightening its rules to make clear when rate changes t

Make sure you know your partner well before you get intimate. This warning wasn't issued by

There is an enormous market potential for European drug sales by U.S. pharmaceutical companies under

French state-owned chemical entity CDF-Chimie Group has joined the pool of companies seeking to take

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