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* Enron Corp., the energy trader that filed the second-biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history, said it agreed to settle a governmental action and a related lawsuit over the management of the company’s retirement plans by setting aside about $356 million to be shared by the U.S. Labor Department and Enron retirees.

* City of Commerce-based Smart & Final Inc. reported second-quarter net income of $8.09 million, or 25 cents a share, down from $8.11 million, or 26 cents, a year earlier. Revenue rose 5.7% to $484.1 million.

* Visa USA Inc. named former Charles Schwab Corp. Vice Chairman John Philip Coghlan as its president and chief executive. Coghlan, 54, who ran Schwab’s individual-investor unit, left in May 2003 after 17 years with the discount broker.

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* Harvey and Bob Weinstein, who are leaving Miramax Films in September, named Lawrence Madden as chief financial officer of Weinstein Co., the entertainment company they are forming. Madden was president of digital media at Seattle-based Loudeye Corp., which makes software to broadcast audio and video over the Internet.

* Ford Motor Co. began taking orders for a gasoline-electric powered version of its Mercury Mariner sport utility vehicle, the company’s second hybrid. Ford said it expected to sell most of the vehicles online.

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