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RJR Nabisco Inc. has created a new, $2.5 billion group called Del Monte Foods to manage its Del Mont

Traditional Exports Oil, shrimp, bananas, coffee and cocoa.Potential ExportsTextiles

U.S. companies are finally starting to show as much interest as their Central American counterparts

Linda H. Lamel, president and chief executive officer of The College of Insurance, was named corpora

Korea Eases Restraints On Five Farm ProductsSouth Korea agreed to liberalize import restrain

Two U.S. senators have introduced federal legislation that would offer incentive grants to states th

Virgin Atlantic Sets London-Orlando RouteVirgin Atlantic Airways will introduce a direct pas

An Interior Department report says there has been environmental damage from oil drilling in Alaska b

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Yields on government bonds in the world's major capital markets are more closely aligned than at any

Working under the assumption that 210 Japanese companies operating in Georgia can't be wrong, Yasuda

The Labor Department will investigate whether investment managers are voting stock they handle for p

A $1 million lawsuit has been filed against the New York Board of Education by a group of homosexual

U S West Inc. has agreed to acquire 10 percent of Lyonnaise Communications of Paris, officials at th

Britain is in a lather over foreign stake-building in some of its largest companies and is hinting a

Mobil Oil to Publish Chinese Novel in 1990Mobil Oil Co. will translate and publish a contemp

Dukakis Urges Support For Auto Reform BillMassachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis says a proposal

First-quarter earnings for the paper and forest products sector outperformed market expectations and

Allied Business Forms Inc. is appealing a decision by a federal bankruptcy judge in North Carolina w

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The in-flight breakup of a 19-year-old Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 has heightened concern about the sa

The Royal Dutch/Shell group of companies Wednesday reported net income for the first quarter of 1988

The U.S. dollar reversed three days of declines by pushing higher Wednesday in reaction to a series

Bigger Wheat Crop Expected in AustraliaSYDNEY, Australia - Australia's 1988-89 (April-May) w

Some friction is inevitable in U.S.-Japan trade relations and Japan-bashing can only make things wor

A variety of economic and health-care factors that affect employers' medical claims costs are surgin

It looks like a cross between Darth Vader's U-Haul and the touring coach for the Jetson family.<

The general counsel for the New York Foreign Freight Forwarders & Brokers Association is asking the

The Kowloon Canton Railway, which links the Hong Kong's mainland section with the main southern Chin

Florida Rock & Tank Lines Inc. reported second quarter earnings rose to $840,000, or 19 cents a shar

ILA Puts Off Search For Executive VPThe International Longshoremen's Association is holding

Law Passed in NY To Regulate VDT UseHAUPPAUGE, N.Y. - What is probably the first law in the

Exxon Chemical Co.'s Australian subsidiary Altona Petrochemical Co. is investing $16 million in upgr

Iraq said its warplanes attacked a ship in the Persian Gulf on Wednesday, but there was no immediate

PAINEWEBBER INC. (New York) - Elizabeth Mugar Eveillard was named a managing director and head of th

George Ball, chief executive of Prudential-Bache Securities Inc., said Wednedsay that he advocated t

Rep. Leon E. Panetta, D-Calif., said a surge in produce imports intensifies concerns that foreign fr

Small companies in the United States continue to outperform big business, according to the American

Microsoft Corp. said it plans to establish a software development center in India in three to five y

The official launch of a new cross-channel freight train ferry scheduled for today was called off be