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A new high-tech pesticide triggered by light causes insects to die within seconds, but should be saf

Gulf States Utilities Co. has asked a state district court to overturn a Louisiana rate decision tha

Iraq was France's primary oil supplier in November, during a successful boycott of oil from Iran, fo

Longshoremen on the Pacific Northwest docks are back at work this week after walking off the job for

An arbitrator in the dispute between Mack Trucks Inc. and the United Auto Workers extended a contest

Longshoremen at the port of Montreal have ceased their rotating walkouts following the appointment o

The military government of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida said it will privatize all or part of 96 state-own

The prosecution Tuesday demanded one-year prison terms for two former executives of Toshiba Machine

Not since the 1960s has there been as much construction going on at the Port Authority of New York a

GUESSING IS BEGINNING over who will be Conrail's next chief executive. A board search commit

Grain Shipments Hit Record Levels in '87U.S. railroads hauled a record volume of 5.108 billi

Three men representing the Norwegian Shipowners' Association and war-risk insurance interests left f

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange designated Salomon Brothers as the specialist and primary market mak

A British company has developed signaling and control systems for use in mines and quarries. The SR

Traders May Need New Coffee Price RulesFRANKFURT, W. Germany - Consumer members of the Inter

The complexity of the International Cocoa Organization's newly adopted stock withholding program cou

King Fahd, who scrapped a newly imposed income tax on expatriates earlier this month, also has froze

After decades of teaching quality control to the world while ignoring it back home, U.S. manufacture

Duke Power Co. is continuing to look for a West Coast partner to buy a troubled California nuclear p

January 19, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallo

Brazil Posts Gains In Oil Output, UsageSAO PAULO, Brazil - Brazilian oil production rose 6.3

Japan is the focus of an intensifying oil market struggle between OPEC producers and oil companies,

The erstwhile hometown airline Presidential Airways has once again felt the competitive presence of

Jan. 19 Baltic International Freight Futures ExchangePrev.Close High Low

It was another year of feast or famine in the heavy truck industry, proving once again that motor ca

Cisbaclub, the shipbrokers' and agents' insurance mutual, announced Tuesday the expansion of its cov

The Bank of Japan has agreed to extend special import financing facilities to the Japanese subsidiar

Anthony Gallagher is on trial in federal court in a waterfront corruption trial, but he is handling

Vista Chemical Co. has acquired an option to buy up to a 25 percent share in an alcohol manufacturin

HERCULES INC. (Wilmington, Del.) - Donald R. Kirtley was named to the newly created position of vice

The U.S. dollar traded in a slump Tuesday on the market's fear Japan's higher trade surplus in Decem

Venezuelan Container Line braved relatively uncharted waters last week by calling at non-union Ferna

HHS Model Is Urged In Malpractice ReformOtis Bowen, secretary of health and human services,

Sports and Leisure '88 Scheduled for MarchThe Japan External Trade Organization is sponsorin

The British Columbia coal industry finds itself between a rock and a hard place and is pleading for

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

The European Community Commission's competition directorate has expressed doubts about the acceptabi

The premise behind newly enacted pension law is that employers should never make promises they canno

Agriculture ministers of the European Community opened a second day of talks Tuesday on a package of

The Japanese government since July 1985 has revised 84 regulations governing standards, certificatio