Abstracts: State will ensure effort by Kvaerner to buy locally, Ridge says. Zoning request may put Disney on E. Market St
Abstracts: AMP files suit to block takeover. Majority accept an offer for AMP. AlliedSignal makes bid to buy AMP
Abstracts: Aydin Corp. shakes up its board. Bell Atlantic, GTE confirm $53 billion deal. Bell Atlantic and GTE consider combining forces
Abstracts: Penn adds 5 hospitals to health-care network. Aetna-Jefferson dispute leaves employers wary. (Workers at Jefferson Health Systems hospital contest Aetna U.S. Healthcare benefit contract)
Abstracts: Swanson beefs up chicken to spur frozen-dinner sales. State hospital developer looks boldly forward. Rendell still confident about Disney project
Abstracts: A cost-conscious Hayllar takes on PGW overhaul. Time draws near to choose your power supplier. Midwest price surge boosts Peco
Abstracts: Wesco shed stake in Travelers Group, filing suggests. Borg-Warner Security Corp. is expected to name Edwardson as president, CEO
Abstracts: Barnesandnoble.com to join a crowd of firms offering 'online music stores'. N2K pulls back from CD-ROM format, conceding it bombed with music fans
Abstracts: Ticketmaster is latest rocket from Internet. New York state accuses three firms and 36 individuals of securities fraud
Abstracts: AIG to buy SunAmerica for $1.8 billion. Aegon agrees to acquire Transamerica; insurers' $9.7 billion deal marks the latest move to consolidate industry
Abstracts: Union Pacific to reverse centralization. Can fast trains and local beer save Amtrak? Newport News, Avondale sign a stock deal; biggest U.S. shipbuilder will add experience in Navy, surface vessels
Abstracts: Electricity trader Power Co. of America forced into chapter 11 proceedings. part 2 Merrill agrees to settle with SEC over Orange County charges
Abstracts: Chicago chain of supermarkets considers sale. The Gap plots panty raid on Victoria's Secret. Lands' End says it plans to cut jobs, liquidate division and shut 3 outlets
Abstracts: Amway Corp. to market natural gas in conjunction with a Virginia partner. Magellan Health discloses collapse of deal to sell Charter Behavioral stake
Abstracts: Stratton Oakmont's former principals are barred by SEC. Former Stratton officers face charges of fraud. Merill's settlement in discrimination case is approved by judge
Abstracts: Monsanto gets clearance to buy DeKalb after reaching a verbal pact with U.S. Monsanto says its corn resists the rootworm
Abstracts: Allstate Insurance reaches settlement on claims from 1994 California quake. AIG's deal for SunAmerica signals faith in annuities
Abstracts: Power Co. creditors file total claims of $126 million. Enron to unveil pact involving RealNetworks. Humor is used to slow down Web surfers
Abstracts: Floor displays promote Fighting Cock Bourbon. Keilen, Ltd. introduces Taco Bell 'One-Stop-Shop.' Calgon display promotes new bath & body line
Abstracts: Sprint runs 'Summer Movie Spectacular' promo. Sprint and Max Factor on board as partners for "Titanic" video. Hallmark Bakery Outpost presents party fun
Abstracts: Floor display promotes debut of Gladware. Royal Doulton showcases new fragrance collection. Sherwin-Williams features Wood Classics Stain display
Abstracts: Floor display promotes debut of Gladware. American Greetings offers alternative card display. Counter display demos nintendo Game Boy Camera
Abstracts: Ambassador's Speedway delivers shopping convenience. American Greetings offers new card spinner. American Greetings offers alternative card display
Abstracts: What's up with teenagers? Supply side access online
Abstracts: Bronfman takes the reins at Universal. Universal chief quits in wake of movie flops. Kirk Kerkorian to hold 90% of MGM after buying the 25% held by partner
Abstracts: Warner takes on a conservative role. New COO on a mission for Molson. Molson lays off 287; takes $36-million onetime charge
Abstracts: Inco seeking partner for Goro nickel project. New technology seen cutting nickel mining costs. Potash Corp. expects to escape ravages of global economic turmoil
Abstracts: Telus' new motto: Dial M for merger. Globelle in talks with suitor. Atlantis to buy 10% stake in Digital Renaissance
Abstracts: Bank seeks receivership for Edmonton mall. Study slams Edmonton mall. Edmonton mall called 'solid as gold.'
Abstracts: Acme is seen as a good fit for the Albertson's chain. Pep Boys to sell most parts stores. Mall manager Kravco, Atlanta firm merge
Abstracts: Rights group pushes Wal-Mart on sweatshop issue. Rite Aid's role in managed care riles competitors. PUC seeks to end long stalemate on phone service
Abstracts: Hawthorn is opened; 1st of new hotel wave. City's waterfront complex dream still unfulfilled. City oks variance, but is it a Mickey Mouse deal?
Abstracts: HealthAmerica sues AGH, 3 others. AHERF, its creditors both happy with 'partner' plan. AHERF lays off 72 case managers
Abstracts: US West phone workers strike. Cover story GE isn't talking, but young insider may be next CEO. Avon names Asian-American woman as CEO
Abstracts: CalEnergy's power player. Razor with supersonic appeal flying off shelves. Onward Christian charges
Abstracts: Mitsubishi ads take stylish turn. Ford hoping for hip with new Focus campaign. Retailers reap promise from inner-city dare
Abstracts: Lenders enjoy wider mortgage rate spread. As gas prices zoom up, consumers wonder why. Gas prices could surge by summer
Abstracts: Swiss Holderbank buys key stake in Siam City Cement. Merrill Lynch bets on market
Abstracts: For Levi's, the success of sexy ads depends on targeted nations. Ad agencies hit a nerve, depicting men doing household chores on TV
Abstracts: China hesitates over 'Mulan.' China hesitates over "Mulan."(China's film bureaucrats demand a breather for Chinese films)
Abstracts: Polygram poaches MPC effects team. Intergraph unwraps Wildcat. ...As SGI slashes Unix price
Abstracts: 11 O'clock Show wins C4 series. Hilton departs BIB after nine months. Bragg to front epic Christianity series
Abstracts: Shed to spring Jailbirds on ITV. Granada's Grimleys set for spring launch. O'Callaghan winds up at Watchmaker
Abstracts: Flextech and ITC face court battle. Ratings send Flextech into black. BSC upholds Jerry Springer complaints
Abstracts: Mirror Group chief Blank predicts Live TV 'will break even by 1999.' BSkyB unleashes cut-price promos
Abstracts: WWEN to lose R5 Live contract. HTV launches English language soap opera. BBC wins fight to film therapy show
Abstracts: Cable subscribers reach 2.5 m. Telewest snaps up Walkers as president. Telewest to expand movie service
Abstracts: Monaghan completes Granada's senior team. Granada plans Stars in Their Eyes doc special and champions' final. Walker quits Sky after six years
Abstracts: Row threatens ITV rivals' Lawrence projects. London's Burning in return to Sunday slot. Carlton loses Mobo awards rights to C4
Abstracts: John Kelly allies with Singapore's Fowseng. Magnussen, Alan White lead EDI change. FBI's growth strategy
Abstracts: Investor awarded record $13.1 million. Bear Stearns agrees to pay $38.5M. Long-Term's bailout crew to keep tabs on operation
Abstracts: Dell's earnings jump 62%. Lone Star state rivals duke it out. Struggling Compaq fires CEO
Abstracts: New steps urged to protect privacy of bank customers. Deutsche Bank to formalize Bankers Trust deal. Bankers Trust's Newman to be paid at least $55 million over five years
Abstracts: Profit at 3M to drop below expectations. Case announces more job cuts as demand falls. Conservative Stryker joins the merger game in a big way
Abstracts: Internet brokerage firms break into banking. Fleet Financial to acquire BankBoston; stock swap of $16 billion would create leader in New England region
Abstracts: J&B tries humor to woo a younger set. Dark antismoking ad turns networks off. AMP appoints Ripp as Chairman, CEO
Abstracts: Snapping back: soft-drink marketers at Triarc deftly give Snapple back its 'buzz'. Wendy's picks Coke as drink for its stores
Abstracts: Japan backs a merger, not failure, for LTCB. Japan leans to rescues as solution for banks. Japan nears bank-law compromise
Abstracts: The new chief is ordering up changes at McDonald's. Planet Hollywood to take charge of $160 million. How Bill Foley built a fast-food empire on ailing also-rans; he found a cheaper entree to the glutted industry and improved the menu; seeking a mate for Carl's Jr
Abstracts: How a cyber sleuth, using a 'data tap,' busted a hacker ring. U.S. appeals court upholds FCC rules intended to lower long-distance rates
Abstracts: Fox rejects Super Bowl spot as tasteless. IBM HotMedia aims to speed online ads. Companies push for bigger on-line ads
Abstracts: Guffaws aside, new scooter makers zip ahead. Sixty goofy-looking little figures spark a toy craze. Lego's robot set for kids grabs crowds of grown-ups
Abstracts: Abt pride is in service. Hi-fi to decipher: audio tech talk. DVD-A standards finilized
Abstracts: Sam's Club: more than just bulk. Greater than 75 pounds. Nationwide sights digital A/V
Abstracts: Kingfisher unit's strong growth leads to accelerated expansion. Racal sells most of data unit, posts loss
Abstracts: CalEnergy will acquire MidAmerican. Entergy aims to sell London Electricity and Australian utility in big makeover
Abstracts: European lawsuits over tobacco may go up in smoke. Yardley Group put into receivership amid debts, losses. Laura Ashley's new autumn line includes staff cuts, executive shifts
Abstracts: BT to buy MCI's 24.9% Concert stake. Viatel agrees to buy Destia in stock swap. Vodafone to merge with Bell Atlantic in U.S. market
Abstracts: Employees at Dewe Rogerson await windfall after takeover. Meyer will pay 404.6 million euros for rival Graham
Abstracts: Whitbread, Allied Domecq to merge shops in U.K. Whitbread may purchase pubs from Allied Domecq. Whitbread bid referred for probe by U.K. regulator
Abstracts: EMAP regroups to position itself for expansion. Bidding battles are intensifying for U.K. papers. BSkyB earnings reflect digital effort
Abstracts: Amoco deal has analysts seeing bargain in BP. Elf's chief vows to defeat TotalFina bid. BP Amoco Set to Outsource Human Resources
Abstracts: Boston Herald sets big makeover in bid to lure readers and ads. What nerve! Rival challenges Martha Stewart
Abstracts: P&G launches cyberspace cologne play. P&G to test ad-agency pay tied to sales. P&G, rivals and agencies begin attempt to set on-line standards
Abstracts: P&G wants to be on tip of tongues in, let's say, Tianjin. To sell movies in Asia, sing a local tune Millennium hoopla muted among Asians
Abstracts: Recorded-music industry belts out an improved year; while sales climbed, effects of massive consolidation provoke concern
Abstracts: IBM discovers web-hacking preventative. Fashion coup at 'Dawson's Creek': American Eagle ousts J. Crew as TV clothier
Abstracts: Coke to buy Cadbury brands amid profit alert. Triarc executives propose to buy rest of company for $418 million
Abstracts: Goldman keeps it private even in going public. Merrill cites $1.4 billion exposure to Long-Term. After 31 years at Goldman, vice chairman plans to retire
Abstracts: Ex-chief's plan for Sunbeam is scrapped. Patek Philippe, a Swiss luxury watch maker, is beginning its first campaign aimed at women
Abstracts: The Virgin Group tries to appeal to a downtown crowd with a new store and $1 million campaign. Coca-Cola prepares a new campaign for Surge, using less grungy, more urban teen-agers
Abstracts: As IPO looms, software CEO cedes her post. Federated warns talent poachers off its turf. Circon, a target of hostile offer, seeks white knight
Abstracts: Horning in; facing Internet threat, Merrill to offer trading online for low fees; customers will get a choice: $29.95 rate, full service or a no-commission plan; a watershed on Wall Street
Abstracts: A milestone on the road to ultrafast computers. Bridging two worlds to make on-line digital music profitable. A struggling Adobe rejects bid by Quark
Abstracts: Tellabs is said to be near new deal for Ciena. BankAmerica president says he will quit; Nationsbank merger leads to culture clash
Abstracts: Olsten to pay $61 million in Medicare billing case. FTC says Merck deal cut competition
Abstracts: Drugs to fight breast cancer near approval Eli Lilly to pay Sepracor $90 million to license drug; antidepressant is enhanced form of Prozac
Abstracts: Citibank sets new on-line bank system. Trading on E*Tarde's success; Chief has aggressive plans to expand Internet broker
Abstracts: In a battle over the prices of commercials during NFL games, the sponsors played defense well. Fewer viewers, more commercials: sales of network TV spots beat the most optimistic forecasts
Abstracts: Companies are increasingly seeking to identify their products with music, both old and new. A dangerous monopoly? Paying computer users to read Internet ads and then storing their data
Abstracts: Surfing around the house. Windows in your pocket. Thin and stylish, flat panels still cost a bundle: If it weren't for the price, LCD monitors could edge their bulky cousins off the desktop
Abstracts: GE Capital Services agrees to acquire Kemper subsidiary. Canada's Nova to pay $920 million for most of Huntsman's styrene lines
Abstracts: Roche Holding's net income rises 3%. Novo profit, buyback plan boost stock. Hoecsht outlines forecast for growth of divisions
Abstracts: Yorkshire Water to merge unit with waste recycling. Arcadia earnings advance 19% despite bleak consumer climate
Abstracts: Prudential to sell units in Australia, New Zealand. Hoechst seen lowering price for paints deal. Commerzbank plan thrills market
Abstracts: Ciba Specialty to trim 1,100 jobs following loss. Novartis to prune brand portfolio. Hoechst to sell significant Clariant stake
Abstracts: Justice Dept. sues to prevent waste-firm deal; the sale of a Mount Laurel company to a rival would limit competition, the government alleges
Abstracts: 2 city law firms may merge into largest in state. A food distributor's move is a neighborhood's win. New loan option for smaller firms
Abstracts: Talisman bids for Arakis Energy. Chevron Canada seeks major gas acquisition. Renaissance selling gas assets to cut into $1.4-billion debt
Abstracts: Manulife delays plans for going public. Mutual life holders to be first to cast votes on going public. Manulife customers expected to split as much as $12-billion
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