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Article: Business briefly
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- August 18, 1998
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PHOTO Leo J. Diestler
THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION.
Business briefly
Acquisitions - GE Capital, the financial arm of General Electric Co., will buy the commercial finance subsidiary of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. ... Houston based-Waste Management Inc. will buy Eastern Environmental Services Inc. for about $1.3 billion in stock ... Century Telephone Enterprises Inc., the leading U.S. provider of rural phone services, agreed to sell its Alaska phone business to investment fund Fox Paine & Co. and the Alaskan company's former management ... Clarendon Hills, Ill.-based MAF Bancorp Inc. agreed to buy Westco Bancorp Inc. for $84.3 million in stock ... ...