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S&L BOND SALE: Columbia Savings and Loan Association, rebuffed by the federal government in its attempt to sell its $2.9 billion "junk bond" portfolio, said today it would move "expeditiously" to seek new bids for the securities. The decision by the Office of Thrift Supervision to reject the proposed sale to Gordon America L.P. makes it more likely that the government will take over the deeply troubled thrift. The OTS, the agency created to oversee the government's cleanup of the thrift industry, announced late Monday that it would not give its necessary approval to the sale because "it could not be confident the bidding process had produced the best ultimate value for the portfolio." ...

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