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* Dyckerhoff, Germany’s No. 2 cement company, agreed to buy Lone Star Industries Inc. for $1.2 billion in cash and assumed debt to capture part of the booming U.S. construction market. Dyckerhoff will pay $50 a share for each share of Stamford, Conn.-based Lone Star. Lone Star shares jumped $14.56 to close at $49.13 on the NYSE. Lone Star, which has cement plants in Oklahoma, Texas, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, had 1998 sales of $347.1 million.

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