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At 91 on-ramps along six expressways radiating out of Chicago, drivers come to a stoplight that blin

Here are some recommendations on how businesses can protect their computersfrom earthquake d

Six years after a strike by air traffic controllers led to their firing by President Reagan, the new

Thousands of airline passengers suffered delays and cancellations Monday as air traffic control assi

He's a farm boy who knows plenty about hogs and harvests, cattle and corn, life on the land. And whe

Japan will do everything it can to make possible the lifting of all U.S. sanctions against Japanese

WORLD BANK MOROCCO - $60 million to improve the nation's water supply system and $60 million

Jennie Wee, the secretary to 14 California insurance commissioners, retired after 36 years of servic

THE THREE MAJOR AEROSPACE COMPANIES THAT ARE PARTNERS in the European Airbus Industrie consortium ma

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

The Tennessee Valley Authority bought 26,800 tons of coal on the spot market during the week of May

If anyone needed one more reminder that the U.S. economy is sluggish, the Labor Department's report

The General Accounting Office's two-year study of medical malpracticerecommends the federal

NY Bill Would Allow Investments in CDsALBANY, N.Y. - The state insurance fund could invest i

Shanghai Opens First Money MarketBEIJING - Shanghai, China's industrial hub and growing fina

From London to Chicago to Tokyo to New York, the world's financial centers are linking up piece by p

Mexico exported $740 million worth of petrochemical products last year, a substantial gain from the

Faced with a Congress moving determinedly toward airline consumer-protection legislation, the Transp

The National Maritime Union and and dry-cargo and tanker companies will resume negotiations Thursday

People who want life insurance but don't want to take AIDS tests will be getting less coverage than

By now, the pattern is annoyingly familiar: American scientists come upon a promising discovery. The

The struggling state-owned Philippines' copper smelter plans to importconcentrates from Papu

For the first time in its 155 years, an American now heads up Hong Kong's premier British-founded tr

Joy Manufacturing To Stay in S. AfricaJoy Manufacturing Co. decided to remain in South Afric

XTRA Corp. said it has agreed to acquire the fleet of piggyback trailers now operated by Availco Sys

CWT's Management Hopes to Buy GerberFREMONT, Mich. - Gerber Products Co. announced that the

989.5 (June 5) Previous day - 1015.0 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in Lo

The Gulf Ports Association has accused the U.S. Department of Agriculture of violating the 1985 Farm

Car thieves prefer imports over domestic automobiles and expensive sporty or speciality cars over th

Coffee importing costs would be cut by a third if union weighers could be shifted to a banana-handle

A California program to assist small- and medium-sized exporters should be even more effective now t

Bunzo Yoda, a Japanese bond trader, often watches the clock and dozes near his desk, but no one has

Fri. June 5, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K.

For the first time in its 155 years, an American now heads up Hong Kong's premier British-founded tr

''We're not the guys who call you on the phone during dinner to sell aluminum siding." Peter

On Dock Labor Competition: "Some years ago, we probably would have gone out and raised some

A U.S. tax on imported crude oil levied to help pay for cleanup of toxic waste sites has been found

Oil Minister Arne Oeien told OPEC's president last week he expected Norway to continue restraining o

Harmonized System Training Course. Series of three-day courses (running July through December) spons