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* Woodland Hills-based Litton Industries Inc. said Polar Tankers Inc. of Long Beach has exercised an option for a fourth double-hull crude-oil carrier, valued at $197 million, to ship Alaskan crude oil. Polar Tankers is a unit of Phillips Petroleum Co.

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