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Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Mo, threw himself quickly into the trade bill fray Wednesday by declaring t

The nation's railroads have offered their labor unions a proposed settlement on job protection in an

A venerable shipping name, American President Cos., has surfaced as a possible takeover target now t

U.S. carmakers Wednesday accused five Japanese automakers of dumping compact trucks in theU.S. marke

Union Carbide Corp. has reinforced widespread industry projections of potential short-term polyethyl

WHAT DO TRAFFIC MANAGERS THINK of letting 18-year-olds drive those big rigs? I don't like it

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Essex Life Insurance Co., the first independent carrier to be certified by the New Jersey Insurance

China Considering Futures MarketsChina is considering opening commodity futures markets, the

A construction industry leader complained Wednesday that Japanese negotiators agreed to open the cou

Peru is on the verge of approving its own omnibus trade bill to try to halt the decline in exports t

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March 29, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Pilots who handle vessels in the Port of New Orleans are asking the Louisiana Public Service Commiss

Five maritime unions and the Reagan administration clashed in U.S. District Court here Tuesday over

Shades of Rothschild! There is Juan Cueto Sierra in Santiago, Chile, astride FastAir Cargo a

Leading Japanese economists and monetary specialists predict an exchange rate of between 90 and 110

Soviet fashion designers are looking for U.S. apparel manufacturers interested in producing and mark

The International Finance Corp. Tuesday released the first of what will be a series of fact books on

Congress May Extend Caribbean Trade PactCongress could approve legislation this session to e

Canadian native leaders are lobbying in London this week in an effort to persuade the British govern

Recent growth in the U.S. economy is beginning to abate and may lead to a recession by early 1989, a

European Community gasoil markets have barely reacted to the closure of the Rhine and Danube rivers

The U.S. dollar moved broadly higher Tuesday in response to a feeling that it was oversold on Monday

The Chicago Board of Trade has suspended trading in its 5-month-old CBT Corporate Bond Index futures

EC Commission OKs French Aid to RenaultBRUSSELS, Belgium - The Common Market's executive bod

Senate-House conferees working on the maritime provisions of the omnibus trade bill edged closer to

The international convention of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union is expecte

World Bank Seeks 17 New Bond Sale AgentsWASHINGTON - The World Bank is asking 14 U.S. compan

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Sears, Roebuck and Co. appointed Everett L. Buckardt as executive vice president, catalog and direct

A British company has developed a two-dimensional component-inspection system suitable for measuring

The Trinidad and Tobago government is restructuring and divesting several of its 67 state enterprise

Representatives of four states met with New York officials Tuesday to discussthe antitrust lawsuits

US, Japan Reach Public Works AccordWASHINGTON - The United States and Japan Tuesday reached

Wool this year is expected to replace coal as Australia's major export commodity, mainly because of

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

Unionists at the Beijing No. 1 Machine Tool Plant recently decided the factory manager had not been

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