Stanley Ziemba

National Geographic Television formed a joint venture with Destination Cinema Inc. to produce films, build and restore theaters, and construct retail stores. National Geographic will invest about $20 million in...

For Trans World Airlines, the crash of its jumbo jet over the Atlantic Ocean a few miles off the Long Island coast quickly erased one of the carrier's few triumphs...

Ford Motor Co., trying to shrink its bulging payroll, is offering early retirement packages to 4,000 of its 80,000 salaried workers worldwide, in hopes that half of them will opt...

Deerfield-based Baxter International Inc.'s hemoglobin therapeutic agent, HemAssist, has been cleared to begin the last stage of human testing before receiving final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration....

Caterpillar Inc., the Peoria-based heavy-equipment maker, sees global sales this year equaling or slightly exceeding sales in 1995, a more optimistic assessment than the company's outlook at the beginning of...

Bozell Worldwide acquired Garfield-Linn & Co., a 46-year-old Chicago marketing-services agency, which will be absorbed by Bozell's Chicago office. The acquisition boosts Bozell billing to $125 million. Meanwhile, Johnson &...

Mortgage rates edged higher this week after a two-week slide. Thirty-year mortgages averaged 8.03 percent nationally, up from 8.01 percent last week. Meanwhile, 15-year mortgages rose to 7.54 percent from...

The jobless rate in the Chicago area fell to 5.3 percent in February from 5.5 percent in January, as the number of workers rose by 13,000 to top 3.9 million,...

The Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates transportation in that state, voted to oppose Union Pacific Corp.'s proposed $5.4 billion buyout of Southern Pacific Rail Corp. because of fears it would...

Motorola Inc. and Visteon Corp. developed a computer that reads doctors' handwriting, enabling physicians to transmit prescriptions to pharmacies electronically. The companies said the system can recognize "even messy handwriting"...