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London-based Euromoney Publications said it agreed to buy Institutional Investor from ABC Inc., a unit of Burbank-based Walt Disney Co., for $142 million in cash. . . . California’s Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control is considering an appeal of a judge’s ruling that allowed Anheuser-Busch’s “Bud Gear” promotion to continue until November despite saying it violated state law. . . . A union-backed federal lawsuit accusing Guess Inc. and some of its clothing-manufacturing contractors of sweatshop labor abuses was withdrawn, but a similar case is pending in Los Angeles County Superior Court.