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A compromise plan to provide health care to all Massachusetts residents by 1992 has been passed by t

Rural enterprises, China's large-scale experiment in weaning peasants from overcrowded farms, will r

Blue Shield of Northeastern New York has asked the state to approve large rate increases for individ

Flexible rating regulation, designed to eliminate wide price swings in the insurance market, is work

Wang Laboratories Inc. pioneered the electronic calculator, making the slide rule obsolete. And in t

Indonesia still has great opportunities to sell Australia commodities other than oil and gas, Indone

Japanese and Pakistani businessmen ended a two-day meeting earlier this month, agreeing that Pakista

Half of China's 131 forestry administrations will have no trees left within 10 years if the nation d

Monsanto Unit To Hike CapacityST. LOUIS - The Specialty Chemicals division of Monsanto Chemi

Government and maritime industry officials are not enthusiastic about the Soviet Union's overtures t

Irvin Joseph, the son of a dockworker and 20-year veteran of the waterfront, edged Alcee P. Honore b

Ethylene Prices Expected to HoldThe recently announced 5-cent-a-pound increase on ethylene b

A seven-story hotel set sail Monday on a 2,175-mile voyage to open for business as a floating resort

Two Taiwanese companies are proposing a $220 million petrochemical project for the Philippines, incl

Coast Guard Eases Rule On Seaway NotificationThe Coast Guard no longer will require vessels

Frank Jones admits the garbage barge saga gave his Long Island town an environmental black eye. But

A $34 million request for state funds by the Philadelphia Port Corp. to fix up dilapidated docks in

A freighter carrying logs northward to Borneo sank during a storm in the Java Sea, and all 55 people

Admiral Cruises Inc. plans to build a 44,300-ton "cruise ship of the future, said B.A. Chabot, Admir

Government and industry seem to have fought each other to a virtual standstill on the issues of tank

Longshoremen at Montreal are holding their third one-day walkout within a week today amid no signs o

The 1987 navigation season on the Montreal-Lake Ontario section of the St. Lawrence Seaway will clos

75,000th Truck Rolls Off Volvo White LineGREENSBORO, N.C. - Volvo White Truck Corp.'s assemb

A tank truck loaded with gasoline rolls over, the huge tank ruptures, and in a matter of minutes, hu

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters won an organizing election that will allow them to repres

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1260.0 (Dec. 21) Previous day - 1259.5 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

Calif. Fertile Ground For Import Car DealersThe nation's most successful import vehicle fran

MONITORING OF PASTA (TSUS 182.35 and 182.36) FROM EUROPEAN COMMUNITY COUNTRIES. Pasta imports classi

The disastrous collision between a domestic passenger ship and an oil tanker illustrates what for ye

The bilateral textile accord announced over the weekend after a year of hard talking between China a

The U.S.-Canada free trade agreement, due to be signed by President Reagan and Prime Minister Mulron

The Reagan administration is weighing the U.S. Export-Import Bank's future as the bank's financial l

The copy in the glossy, 24-page mail-order catalog is smoothly written and the color photographs sli

Richard G. Capen Jr., chairman and publisher of The Miami Herald, and P. Anthony Ridder, president o

The market for U.S. cars and light trucks adhered tightly to its charted course in 1987 without much

AIR CARGO The Department of Transportation has cleared the way for Kris Kringle to make his

ST. LOUIS - George F. Clegg was named managing director of Monsanto Japan, the Japanese operating su

Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita telephoned South Korean President- elec t Roh Tae-woo Monda

Group Cites Failure To Curb China TextilesThe Reagan administration has failed to dampen the