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OFFICIAL: BRITISH COLUMBIA SLIGHTED IN SHIPYARD AIDVICTORIA, Northwest Territories -

Tuesday was "California tin cup day" at a House appropriations subcommittee that will decide the fat

A fast, sharp jump in the rain-swollen Mississippi River at St. Louis this week led the U.S. Coast G

A Chinese company for the first time will raise long-term funds in the U.S. securities market with c

Faced with a peasant rebellion in the south and criticism that rural regions have been ignored in ec

The government of Bangladesh is expected to approve a massive plan to salvage its ailing textile ind

About 50 American, European and Asian companies meet in Tokyo this week to quietly complete a propos

RUSSIAN IMPORTS DROP WHILE EXPORTS INCREASEMOSCOW - Russia's first-quarter imports f

Israel witnessed a slowdown in economic growth for the first quarter of 1994 widely blamed on the He

NORTH AMERICA World Trade Expo '94. April 15-17. Miami. Contact: Pamela Burdgick, World Trad

The management-development exercise seemed simple enough. A group of five executives had to

MOODY'S RAISES RATING FOR GE SUBSIDIARYNEW YORK - Moody's Investors Service has rais

LLOYD'S OF LONDON (Geneva) - Philippe Mogeon is replacing Rainer Bohmer as Lloyd's manager for Switz

Kemper Corp., which is trying to fend off an unwanted merger offer from General Electric Co., said M

Two consulting firms are developing a plan to save Kentucky Central Life Insurance Co., the Lexingto

A Royal Insurance Co. unit and three other underwriters will not have to pay to replace two barges d

Zurich Re (U.K.) Ltd. will acquire Anglo American Insurance Co. on July 1, giving Zurich access to A

The tornadoes that swept through the Southeastern United States last month created an estimated $245

The end of hostilities between communist and capitalist countries over ideology triggered the outbre

For several years now, Ole Skaarup, the 78-year-old shipowner-entrepreneur, has been tryingto pump s

S. AFRICAN VIOLENCE SLOWS MINE PRODUCTIONJOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Over 300 miner

Churchill Truck Lines Inc. of Chillicothe, Mo., a 68-year-old regional less- than-truckload carrier

The Canadian government is preparing a compromise with Mexico that could avert retaliation against C

While Clinton administration officials celebrate a historic world trade agreement in Morocco this we

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Kathleen Easterbrook, export manager of Beaver Mountain Log Homes Inc., dreams of doubling or even t

The Inter-American Development Bank announced Monday that agreement has been reached among member co

While one strong opponent against a U.S. Customs inspection station centralization plan said Monday

Stubborn ice and changing winds continued Monday to hamper and damage Great Lakes bulk ships traveli

(1) DAILY INDEX Annual Smoothed percent +4.744/5 98.14/6 98.04/7

Top-level U.S. and Chinese officials meet here Wednesday and Thursday to assess a wide range of bila

Most air cargo executives and freight forwarders in the U.S. Gulf see great potential for increased

The story "IRS Eases Importer Fears on Customs Duty Rule," which appeared on Page 1A April 8, incorr

Monday, April 11, 1994 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The net change in U.K. consumer credit was a rise of UK277 million ($188.4 million) in February, aft

Canadian Pacific Ltd. has cut its last ties with the trucking industry by completing a deal to sell

U.S. airlines will have to pay $3.2 billion to bring their planes in compliance with federal noise s

Political turmoil in Japan and questions over who will command a powerful new world trade body lent

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York and other sources, are selling r

DRI McGraw-Hill, a consulting and forecasting company, has trimmed its U.S. inflation expectations s