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* Power company AES Corp. said it planned to launch an unsolicited $1.4-billion bid for control of Venezuelan telecommunications company CANTV in an aggressive move outside its main electricity business.
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* The United Farm Workers union announced its first contract agreement with an employer not in the agriculture sec tor. The contract with Bakersfield furniture maker Guy Chaddock & Co. was signed Aug. 13.
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* Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products filed a Chapter 11 recovery plan that calls for its Dictaphone Corp. unit to emerge from bankruptcy independently.
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