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Creating temporary government agencies may be the key to solving some major social and economic prob

France's state-controlled oil group, Compagnie Francaise des Petroles, or Total-CFP, will concentrat

Exxon Chemical's subsidiary in France, SOCABU, has completed a 30 percent expansion of its Vistalon

Cutbacks Prop Up Mercury MarketThe market for mercury is reported to be strengthening becaus

The U.S. dollar declined against most major foreign currencies Thursday on fresh signs of a sluggish

The European Community Commission Thursday approved an accord among nine major computer companies to

The Tennessee Valley Authority completed four purchases in the spot coal market ranging in size from

Bertelsmann AG, West Germany's biggest media company, has completed the acquisition of Doubleday &

Steel Data Make China 4th-Largest ProducerChina met this year's production quota of 50 milli

Hundreds of design errors on the nuclear-powered attack submarine San Juan threaten the worst constr

For the week ended Dec. 6, 1986, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equa

Triton-France, the affiliate of the Dallas-based Triton Energy Corp., is tocut its 1987 exp

IU Corp. Promotes3 ExecutivesIU International Corp., which owns Thurston Motor Lines

Japan plans to propose a 20-year international fundamental science research program of about 1.0 tri

Britain's purchase of AWACS planes from Boeing may help convince other foreign governments to seal a

The Surry nuclear plant became the deadliest in the nation when the death toll from an accident doub

The controversy surrounding Maine's workers compensation law continues as numerous legal challenges

A Defense Ministry official has complained to U.S. authorities about the practice of importing fore

Tens of millions of dollars are at stake in a face-off between shippers andtrans-Pacific con

The shipping season on the St. Lawrence Seaway has been extended until Sunday, and surcharges for st

Non-vessel-operating common carriers, at least on the East Coast, have found that the longshore 50-

Reading Gets Payment From Trailer TrainPHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Reading Co. said it has received

A 51 percent rise in cargo tonnage handled in the month of November has helped Manchester Airport bo

Minstar Inc., parent of The Bekins Co., will sell the household mover to the firm's management in a

FMC Corp. announced its Spanish subsidiary, Foret SA, purchased the natural sodium sulfate business

Diamond Shamrock Corp.'s board of directors rejected a $2 billion takeover bid by a group led by Ama

Phoenix Re Corp. said it contributed $24 million to the surplus of its reinsurance operating subsidi

Alberta's oil producers suffered their steepest profit plunge in more than 40 years during the first

John D. DeButts, who led American Telephone & Telegraph Co. when the government launched its antitru

New car and truck sales among domestic import manufacturers for 1987 will drop about 6 percent from

Real capital spending by U.S. non-farm businesses in 1987 is expected to rise 0.2 percent from 1986

Although substantive changes to the 1985 Farm Act could be proposed early in the 100th Congress, rea

Net cash income for the farm sector could increase from $44 billion this year to between $45 billion

The North Carolina World Trade Association has endorsed the State Ports Authority's $44.6 million "M

Britain's decision to choose an airborne early warning defense system designed by U.S. aerospace gia

The British government said it was investigating allegations that civil servants may have illegally

It's nail-biting time on Wall Street. Today's triple witching hour could be particularly vol

Soviets Report Riots MOSCOW - The official news agency Tass issued an unprecedented report a

A Defense Ministry official has complained to U.S. authorities about the practice of importing fore

Move over, San Francisco and Seattle. Canada's third-largest city is no longer content to be