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General Motors Corp., blaming sagging car sales, is beginning an innovative series of staggered layo

Last November Liu Chih-yuan, a mainland Chinese pilot, flew his MiG-19 fighter to freedom in Taiwan.

Union Workers Pan SEPTA ManagementPHILADELPHIA - Transport Workers Union Local 234 held a pr

A 1 percent increase in cargo volume doesn't sound like much, but Baton Rouge Port Director Gary Pru

The market for Peoples Gas Light and Coke Co. is virtually saturated and that has been a challenge t

The Turkish government plans to award to a U.S. company a $1 billion contract for co-production of a

The current nationwide sugar shortage may worsen this year, an official from China's largest sugarca

Thu., Jan. 7, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

The World Bank it has reduced to 7.72 percent for the first half of 1988 its variable repayment rate

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Insurance agents are waiting and hoping for the introduction of a new banking bill that will counter

Beginning with today's issue, The Journal of Commerce once a month will include WorldPaper, a specia

James Wansiewicz, Gulf Oil president, can thumb his nose at cocktail party gossips who insisted for

A tug of war has developed over a possible veto of a bill that would impose stricter U.S. citizenshi

What Washington giveth, it also taketh away. When President Reagan late last year signed the

American Airlines plans to begin daily, non-stop service from Raleigh, N.C., to Paris on May 26, rec

CSX Transportation is moving 1.8 million tons of iron ore from the port of Baltimore to Pittsburgh f

American Association of Port Authorities. Workshops on computer development and application. Jan. 21

Since the yen started its precipitous climb in 1985, Japanese companies have found themselves caught

Critical Mexican transportation projects - ports, roads and railways - will be delayed by emergency

Swiss Bank Corp. is to provide the pharmaceutical group Hoffman-La Roche with a US$4.2 billion short

Chemex Pharmaceuticals Inc. and the Upjohn Co. of Kalamazoo, Mich., signed adrug evaluation

The Federal Reserve Board may resort to higher interest rates if the dollar again starts to fall sha

Hemisphere Navigation Co. of New York City is seeking more than $60,000 in reparations and costs for

The Siberian Express that brought subzero temperatures and wind chill factors of about 40 below to t

Laidlaw Transportation Limited reported that net income rose 69 percent to $44.2 million, or 23 cent

The industrial force of this northeastern city is hard to glimpse as thousands of people on bicycles

An Oregon man plans to import up to 270,000 sheep from New Zealand, touching off concerns by Oregon

J. Pope to Fly 'Friendly Skies'Instead of AMRJohn C. Pope was named chief financial

Brazilian debt renegotiation talks resume in New York next week under President Jose Sarney's fourth

An annual safety inspection program aimed at lowering the casualties of Panamanian-registered vessel

East German Leader Visits France for TalksEast German leader Erich Honecker began a historic

The fast-moving pace of business travel has been the main impediment to successfully producing trave

Cold weather continued to drive up heating oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange Thursday w

Japanese Firms to Cut Imports of Saudi CrudeFive Japanese oil distributors this month will c

The board of the New York Mercantile Exchange voted late Wednesday not to support a move from its cu

A secret meeting of top U.S. and Soviet agricultural officials held in London may result in more U.S

NY Mayor Hits Foam ContainersNEW YORK Pleading with McDonald's Restaurants to give us a bre

While New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo was announcing a major agreement Wednesday to increase the state'