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COLONIAL SHUTS PORTION OF TEXAS PIPELINENEW YORK - Colonial Pipeline Co. Tuesday sai

A large consortium of Japanese companies plans to build two 250-megawatt coal-burning power stations

U.S. Ambassador-at-large Robert Gallucci returned to Washington Tuesday to seek political approval f

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Just the mere thought of easing an international ban on oil sales by Iraq, once a leading crude prod

The Philippines is ready to become the next "Asian tiger," if and when it can add enough electrical

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150per ton lots &

The Cocoa Producers' Alliance began its meeting here this week with discussions on "housekeeping" ma

TAGAMET'S TROUBLES HIT SMITHKLINE RESULTSLONDON - British-American drugmaker SmithKl

A district court in Dusseldorf, Germany has ruled in favor of Medtronic in a patent infringement sui

Oct. 18, 1994 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Corning Inc. reported strong third-quarter profit Tuesday, but said future results would be hurt if

Strong sales of drugs to treat high blood pressure and enlarged prostates helped boost Merck & Co. I

The next six months will be prime ones for American farmers to make an impact on the world soybean m

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 229.88 up 1.62 whi

1845 (Oct. 18, 1994) Previous day - 1838 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Congestion is building at the Port of Buenos Aires as a labor slowdown enters its third week and sev

The ferry disaster of the M/S Estonia that took the lives of more than 800 people off the coast of F

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GLOSSARY AR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

The impressive container traffic growth enjoyed by the Port Everglades shipping community in recent

Some shipping officials were mystified when the U.S. Coast Guard showed up at the Massachusetts Port

South Korea received a $100 million World Bank loan to be used as part of a massive, $1.2 billion po

The story headlined "Milwaukee Stevedore Invites ILA to 'Educational' Meeting," on Page 10B Monday,

SOLDIERS KEEP PORTS IN PERU OPERATIONALLONDON - Soldiers kept Peruvian ports operati

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Despite the failure of Congress to pass maritime reform legislation this year, John Snow, chairman o

Seafarers on a Zim Israel Navigation Co. ship Tuesday made good on their union's threatto turn up th

Buoyed by the recent boom in shipments of steel from Turkey to the Far East, Turkish shipowners are

The broke East St. Louis School Board has been paying health insurance premiums for dead people.

So many Washington state consumers have had unsatisfactory experiences when filing car-insurance cla

The latest legal wrangle springing from huge losses at Lloyd's of London started Tuesday and was adj

JOHN HANCOCK BUYING TRANSAMERICA FUND UNITJohn Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. said this w

Retired Army Gen. Colin L. Powell, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told actuaries at a

TRAVELERS' PROFIT UP 28 PERCENT IN THIRD QUARTERThird-quarter profit rose 28 percent at Trav

New Jersey's insurance commissioner is mulling changes to the state's auto- insurance laws in an att

Proposed Coast Guard barge safety rules will cover navigation equipment, masters and mates licensing

A new congressional study confirms that Japanese-based multinational companies spend less money on r

Rupert Murdoch's 20th Century Fox plans to establish a multimillion-dollar international film studio