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* Viacom Inc. named former Young & Rubicam Chief Executive Michael Dolan as chief financial officer, replacing Richard Bressler.

* Joining other retailers, Walgreen Co. and CVS Corp. said they would place pseudoephedrine products behind the pharmacy counter to limit their use in making the illegal drug methamphetamine.

* Beckman Coulter Inc., the Fullerton maker of medical-laboratory equipment and diagnostic tests, agreed to buy Agencourt Bioscience Corp. of Massachusetts for as much as $140 million to offer scientists more tools for researching the human genome.