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Attention foreign businessmen: Interested in hunting or trapping a real Russian bear or moose in 198

Houston Ship Repair Gets Marad ContractThe Maritime Administration has awarded a $933,248 co

Iraqi warplanes slammed an Exocet missile into a Cypriot supertanker on charter to Iran in a predawn

Top officials of Toshiba Corp. outlined Wednesday their company's measures to prevent a recurrence o

Japan's plans to launch a financial futures market by March 1988 will not be a major threat to the l

The U.S. dollar is likely to end 1988 at about 145.00 yen and 1.80 deutsche marks, two Hong Kong eco

The New Jersey Supreme Court has issued a ruling that may enable accident victims riding in cars ope

Once labeled the sleeping giant of Texas foreign trade zones, Brownsville Foreign-Trade Zone No. 62

U.S. port leaders realize they need to provide the framework for users to communicate via computer,

A solid flow from a third field has revived hopes that the Timor Sea could become a major source of

Coal Hauler: Buildup Of Inventories LaggingWith the coal industry facing a possible mine wor

Reagan's '89 Budget Calls for End to ICCOffice of Management and Budget Director James Mille

Burnham Service Corp.'s board accepted the acquisition bid of an international investor's group that

Representatives of Mississippi River pilots say they are sorry to see the Coast Guard's vessel monit

The World Bank, which has been criticized as neglecting environmental problems, announced the appoin

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Hong Kong's December exports amounted to HK$18.8 billion (US$2.4 billion), up nearly 10 percent from

Pennwalt Hikes Peroxide PricesBUFFALO, N.Y. - The Lucidol division of Pennwalt Corp. is rais

The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, already besieged by court orders and labor woes, now faces thre

Home heating oil prices nudged slightly higher last week, but seasonal price increases are only half

Indonesia said Wednesday it did not agree with a U.S. call to abolish farm subsidies and restriction

WORLD BANK CHINA - $170 million to the Agricultural Bank of China for production and constru

The Tokyo Stock Exchange plans to launch computerized trading in bond futures in late April or early

W. German Official To Visit WashingtonFRANKFURT, West Germany - West German Finance Minister

THE BROUHAHA involving the South Carolina State Ports Authority and the Booz, Allen & Hamilton consu

The Environmental Protection Agency says incinerating supplies of the banned weed-killer dinoseb cou

NEW ENGLAND ELECTRIC SYSTEM caused a stir a couple of years ago when it bought a cargo of western Ca

The Coast Guard belt-tightening will force merchant ships, tugs and ferries moving about New York ha

Measured, stable and calm are some of the descriptions reinsurers and brokers are giving the U.S. re

Primerica Corp. announced reorganization plans with its subsidiaries and with A.L. Williams Corp. We

Malaysia hopes to sign a trade agreement with China before the Chinese lunar new year on Feb. 17, De

McDermott International Inc. announced that the Insulating Products Group of its Babcock and Wilcox

The re-election this week of Arthur Scargill, widely considered the most militant of the country's m

The number of oil and gas drilling rigs working in the United States dropped again last week, fallin

The departure of James McJunkin as port director at Long Beach, Calif., is the latest example of a t

The Illinois Insurance Exchange has given new life to the fable of the tortoise and the hare.

Japan's crude oil imports fell to an 18-year low in 1987, largely because it imported more refined o

Bethlehem Steel Corp. has announced plans to sell its shipyards in Singapore and in Beaumont and Por

Lawmakers from crawfish country are boiling over President Reagan's suggestion that spending $200,00

After selling heavily toward the end of last year, foreign investors are expected to buy more Japane