The Machinists at the New York Times...

The Machinists at the New York Times voted to ratify an agreement on a six-year extension of a labor contract that expired nearly two years ago, a union official said . . . Texas Eastern Corp. officials delayed making a decision on whether to accept a $2.6-billion buyout bid from Coastal . . . New York’s 76-year-old Scribner Bookstore, closed unceremoniously, ending a chapter in literary history . . . In Chantilly, Va., Fairchild Industries Inc. said its board adopted a plan to protect shareholders from “abusive takeover tactics” . . . OPEC oil ministers will hold a meeting next month in Caracas to reaffirm the will of member nations to abide by their production quotas, Venezuela’s President-elect Carlos Andres Perez said . . . Computer fraud is costing British business more than $700 million a year, according to a report by the London Business School.