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Nearly $1 million a week in direct spending is fleeing the Puget Sound region for Canada because a c

FFE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES INC. (Dallas) - Dick Williams was promoted to area manager of the compan

Gotaas-Larsen Shipping Corp. said Thursday that its fourth quarter net profit was up 66 percent from

President Reagan used his annual budget message to urge Congress to pass the Senate's phased-in ver

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SECURITIES DEALERS (Burlingame, Calif.) - Steve Hickman was named regional d

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

International Business Machines Corp. researchers have made the world's fastest dynamic memory compu

STRIKE? WHAT STRIKE? Fuel oil merchants are not losing any sleep over this week's tugboat wo

President Reagan's fiscal 1989 budget proposes a 13 percent budget increase to $6.4 billion for the

President Reagan's fiscal 1989 budget contains some good news for the Department of Transportation's

Phoenix Advanced Technology Inc. had licensed Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., of Tokyo to market Px, an an

Ala., Fla. to Receive US Bay Cleanup FundsThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced

Police and longshoremen clashed at Port Everglades, Fla., on Wednesday after workers from a non-unio

A Hong Kong entrepreneur bought a five-star hotel Thursday in London's tourist district for more tha

Midland Bank reported a huge loss for 1987 after setting aside more than 1 billion ($1.7 billion) t

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has no plans for special commodity donations to sugar-exporting n

U.S. industry operated at 82.2 percent of capacity in January, matching theDecember level as

A congressional trade bill subconference will postpone consideration of many controversial provision

Railroads Optimistic On Grain ShipmentsKANSAS CITY, Mo. - U.S. railroads are expected to kee

A judge of the British Columbia Supreme Court has chided provincially owned BC Rail and its contract

Some slowdown in containership and large tanker traffic was reported in the New York harbor area on

The prospect of hyper-inflation may shape Brazil's politics this year. After an annual infla

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

Thu., Feb. 18, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

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The Teamsters union will launch a worldwide strike against Pan Am Corp. on Sunday, union officials r

Britain's unemployment rate fell to a seasonally adjusted 9.2 percent of the work force in January f

Ford Motor Co.'s net income in the fourth quarter of 1987 was $932 million, up 19 percent from $785

Authorities may authorize construction of a $90 million copper smelting plant in this Pacific resort

Enrique Iglesias, Uruguay's foreign minister, was elected president of the Inter-American Developmen

Transco Energy Co. said it has budgeted $226 million for capital expenditures in 1988, compared with

W. German Oil Imports Increased in JanuaryFRANKFURT, West Germany - West German crude oil im

* Passage of catastrophic health program is urged. Page 9A * No money for Inter-American Dev

HE GREW UP in a New Orleans suburb and is familiar with the city's crazy carnival celebration known

Nigeria recently completed its first U.S.-bound shipment of fertilizer, bring the first positive fig

First Olsen Tankers Ltd., a new company created by Citicorp and Fred Olsen & Co. of Oslo, Norway, is

Deppe Line, a small, independent European carrier plying the U.S. Gulf/Europe route, says schedule i

Hight Court Orders Vt. To Refund $8 MillionA Vermont Superior Court ordered the state to ref

Agency Extends Time For Truck Rule ViewsThe Federal Maritime Commission again has extended t

Operating Income Fell At Cigna in 4th PeriodCigna Corp. reported operating income from conti