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Even though the goal of creating machines that think remains somewhere off in the 21st century, arti

Exports of U.S. farm commodities this year may total only $26.5 billion, the lowest value in nearly

Virginia Power's one-year test of transporting coal by barge worked. Railroads have lowered their ra

Argentina's hydrocarbons output rose in July compared with the previous month but still lagged behin

The Federal Aviation Administration allocated close to $247 million toairports during the se

Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole directed the Federal Aviation Administration to act

Sixty million people in China have an annual income lower than the government poverty line of 150 yu

Teknor Apex Unveils LineOf CompoundsA new series of specially formulated polyvinyl c

U.S. automakers scheduled the assembly of 135,374 cars in domestic factories this week, Ward's Autom

A 2,000-acre lake used by Commonwealth Edison Co. as a cooling pond for its LaSalle Nuclear Generati

The loading of nuclear fuel into the Nine Mile Point 2 power plant, pushed back several times this y

A Vietnamese-Soviet joint venture opened a third oil rig off the southern Vietnamese coast, the offi

The future looks pretty bleak for Dolphin A/S at the moment, but the Norwegian offshore oil drilling

A private analyst who specializes in agriculture gives Congress high marks for the new tax overhaul

Faster progress must be made by Taiwan in reducing its towering trade surplus with the United States

Former Japanese Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe said Japan will continue to improve access to its dome

New Jersey's measles epidemic is over, but the 904 cases reported in the last 10 months is the highe

Japan was pressed once again by a U.S. official Thursday to completely open bidding on construction

A $22.7 million contract to overhaul the destroyer USS Fletcher wasawarded to the Long Beach Naval S

The Federal Reserve Board's fourth cut this year in the discount rate likelywill touch off another r

Air Cargo Inc. announced that Midway Airlines of Chicago has joined its nationwide air freight serv

Plans for Tokyo Service Remain BCAL PriorityBritish Caledonian Airways, the U.K.'s biggest i

W.R. Grace & Co., New York, and Panhandle Eastern Corp., Houston, agreed in principle to combine the

The outlook for U.S. transport industries appears uncertain while chances of a ''mini-recession" lat

Britain's National Institute of Economic and Social Research downgraded its forecast of world econom

The United States sold more electronics products and services to Canada than to any other nation dur

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Thursday, August 21,1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanadaU.K

The Soviet Union will have to reconsider the siting of atomic power plants near populated areas beca

Vista Chemical Co. completed refinancing and consolidating its outstanding bank debt with a revised

For the week ended Aug. 9, 1986, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equ

Q:You're spending $500 million on expansion when other shipping companies are taking losses and cutt

A General Motors Corp. official staunchly maintained that the company would try to expand, not reduc

A new lending agency for Latin America and the Caribbean may be in place by early 1987. The

The century-old Bath Iron Works Inc. said it was sold Thursday to Givens, Green, and Van Amerongen L

Low-Cost Korean Model May Spur IBM MoveHyundai, the South Korean company known for its cheap

They don't work when the grass gets cut. Perfume drives them up the wall, and coffee is forbidden in

Oil prices continued to steady on a European spot market where rumors of a fresh Iranian offensive i

Weak world oil prices have taken the euphoria out of exploration and development efforts in France's

A planned year-long survey of the islands of the South Pacific in the interest of developing new tou