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* Walt Disney Co.’s principal accounting officer, John J. Garand, will retire next month, the Burbank company said in a regulatory filing. Garand, executive vice president of planning and control, will be succeeded by Brent A. Woodford, at present senior vice president of corporate controllership.

* United Airlines parent UAL Corp. won U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval of its request to extend an exclusive right to file a reorganization plan through April.

* Safeway Inc. reached a tentative agreement on a contract with a union representing 1,500 employees at stores in Las Vegas. Details were not disclosed.