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A tentative settlement ending a 13-month strike between Crowley Maritime Corp. and workers on West C

What a truck driver sees when he looks down at a new high-tech dashboard display is enough to make h

The Treasury Department expects Congress to pass a new tax bill this year that will reopen some aspe

Japanese May Buy More N. American PulpJapan's paper industry is expected to depend on North

The International Cocoa Organization, known as the ICCO, has decided to bring into force its stock w

Ford Motor Co. Vice Chairman Harold Poling on Tuesday handed out about 20 of the thousands of profit

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency says restrictions on driving may be necessary to mee

The state of Florida has thrown a monkey wrench into the permitting process for commercial navigatio

Budget cutbacks are hurting Coast Guard morale, its commandant said. Adm. Paul A. Yost Jr. t

Canada's insurance industry declared war Tuesday on the powerful Canadian banking sector after the b

Farrell Challenges Space Charter PlanFarrell Lines Inc. is challenging the space chartering

Britain's minister of state for Northern Ireland is starting a weeklong trip through the United Stat

Zenchu, Japan's central union of agricultural cooperatives, staged a rally Tuesday to protest the li

The Autolatina holding company, which controls Volkswagen and Ford manufacturing in Brazil, plans to

A story about the cooperation between the International Longshoremen's Association and Crowley Marit

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced an agreement with the Tucson Electric Power Co.,

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate is strongly opposed to development of the Snorre offshore oil fi

Legislation has been introduced in Congress to delay implementing the Massachusetts Port Authority's

The air freight industry has an insatiable taste for guessing games. One of its current diversions i

AETNA LIFE & CASUALTY (Hartford, Conn.) - Donald G. Conrad, executive vice president, director and c

Britannia Airways Buys Long-range Boeing 767Britannia Airways has announced the purchase of

Federal Reserve Governor Wayne Angell said Tuesday that he agreed with his colleagues on the Board o

Japan Line says it will soon complete a consolidation program that it hopes will help the company re

A drug that could save your life may be hiding right now in a bit of ordinary seaweed. So co

Move over Colombia, and make room for your coal-exporting neighbor, Venezuela. Output from V

War is good business for agriculture. Take the Persian Gulf war. Iraq, a California-sized co

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Sceptre to Explore For Oil in PakistanCALGARY, Alberta - Sceptre Resources Ltd. said it was

For the first time ever, the Federal Aviation Administration's annual industry forecast received a f

Professional sports provide grown-ups the chance to engage in some of theroughest, highest-p

International Clinical Laboratories Inc. has opened a new division in Nashville responsible for mark

Two out of three Americans say they would favor national health insurance, but most aren't willing t

A leading trucking industry rate bureau filed suit in federal court to block Interstate Commerce Com

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The Maritime Administration will allow Waterman Steamship Corp. to charter an American President Lin

Tandon Corp. said Tuesday it has sold off the disk-drive business on which the company was founded t

AIR CARGO Burlington Air Express plans to expand its international operations. 5BAVIATION

James Dwyer resigned as executive director of the port of Seattle at a Tuesday morning press confere

Chevron Corp. officials have met with Nikolai Lemayev, the Soviet minister of petroleum refining and

Nomura Passes Toyota In Corporate ProfitTOKYO - Nomura Securities Co. overtook Toyota Motor