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SURVEY REVISES ESTIMATESFOR SOYBEANS, CORNCHICAGO - The Leslie/ADM Investor Services Inc. cr

Thursday Aug. 8, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

With China driving feverishly to build more roads and cars, multinational oil firms are racing to es

Philippine prosecutors filed criminal charges against three top officials of Marcopper Mining Corp.

CANADA MARITIME NAMESJORDAN CHIEF EXECUTIVELONDON - Canada Maritime appointed Mike Jordan as

Len Bennett, former president and chief operating officer of the Celadon Group, has started an asset

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Hoping to snag the attention of American voters by offering to lower their auto insurance by $40 bil

EXEL Ltd.Christopher V. Greetham was named senior vice president and chief investment office

With independent insurance agencies continuing to consolidate, a survey released this week by the In

The Japanese government is leaning toward approving mail-order sales of automobile insurance, a move

A San Francisco-based diamond company's assets - which include a $20 million jet, luxury cars and a

Death, like birth, is a secret of nature, as the Roman philosopher Marcus Aurelius said. And making

Bob Morriss is going to Japan in November to hawk automatic pizza-making machines. He is working wit

IRAN WILL FILE COMPLAINTOF COVERT ACTION BY USNICOSIA, Cyprus - Iran will submit a case agai

Osman Aksahin, a Turkish exporter of ready-to-wear clothing who makes most of his money shipping to

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co.The very name conjures up a glorious past dating t

If Matson Navigation Co. wanted to orchestrate the ideal public relations announcement to mark the s

The chemical arm of oil giant Occidental Petroleum Corp. is trying to block a shipping deal it fears

AIRMICHOT NAMED PRESIDENTOF FRANCE'S AEROSPATIALEPARIS - Yves Michot, the deputy hea

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Smell? What smell?The riddle of the weird odor began last weekend on the New Jersey Shore.Ne

BOEING STRIKERS SPURNCONTRACT DEAL IN CANADAWINNIPEG, Manitoba - Striking Boeing Co. employe

Cuban Transport Minister Senen Casas, an army general, died late Tuesday of a heart attack, governme

Planning a voyage this summer over sun-splashed interstates?Come to Philly and see the boile

Federal Express will submit plans for a temporary warehouse at Taipei's Chiang Kai-Shek airport to t

LIBRA TERMINAL SAYSIT OUTSTRIPS SANTOS RIVALWEST CALDWELL, N.J. - Grupo Libra, owner of Naci

A story appearing July 18 on Page 1B, headlined ''Behemoth berth: Bayonne?'' incorrectly characteriz

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

Aug. 7, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

POSTAL SERVICE HEADINGFOR 2ND $1 BILLION PROFITWASHINGTON - The U.S. Postal Service is about

JULYS.O.S. Safety on Ships. Through Dec. 30. New York. Exhibit on New York's maritime traged

1061 (Aug. 7, 1996) Previous day - 1062The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lo

Pittston Burlington Group, which operates air cargo carrier Burlington Air Express, posted improved

The environmental group Greenpeace Tuesday denounced the presence in the Panama Canal of a British-r

The Thai cabinet Tuesday accepted an amended Maritime Act that in part would require foreign confere

Federal officials will conduct an environmental review of a Michigan copper mine, one of several dem

AVERAGE RICE HARVESTFORECAST FOR JAPANTOKYO - The Japanese rice harvest for 1996 is expected

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,300-$1,500 per ton lo

As of Aug. 7, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from sup