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Federal-Mogul Corp., the Southfield, Mich.-based maker of automobile parts, plans to close 13 service centers by the end of the year, eliminating 25 to 30 jobs, in a move to cut costs and improve its distribution system. . . . ING Group of Amsterdam offered to buy Banque Bruxelles Lambert for $4.68 billion in cash, stock and warrants in a bid to expand its business in Belgium. ING already owns 20% of BBL. . . . Electronics company Kemet Corp. of Greenville, S.C., said it will lay off 1,000 American workers as it transfers capacitor production from a factory in Shelby, N.C., to Mexico. . . . Cephalon Inc. and Chiron Corp. withdrew and then resubmitted their application for FDA approval of the drug Myotrophin, giving the federal agency another six months to reach a difficult decision on the use of the drug for Lou Gehrig’s disease.
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