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If Portland-based Willamette Industries buys part of Atlanta-Based Georgia-Pacific, it would become Oregon's biggest company, shedding its status as a regional company with an obscure name and surpassing Nike.

The ``See Rock City'' barn in Dalton will not only survive, but it'll move closer to the attraction it advertises.

A 30-day "cooling-off" period was issued Sunday to prevent a strike by disgruntled United Airlines mechanics.

Martha Stewart is not abandoning troubled retailer Kmart Corp., but she said any bankruptcy reorganization "poses certain problems for us in terms of our brand" and her company's growth rate.

A materials company is encouraging southern farmers to grow kenaf, a fast-growing fibrous plant that it says can be turned into a new type of environmentally friendly lumber that termites won't touch.

Nearly 200 former Enron Corp. workers have united to demand severance pay from the bankrupt energy giant that abruptly laid them off last month.

Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan, whose words are difficult to interpret in the best of times, may have come across as too pessimistic about the economy's chances for recovery in a recent speech.

Cindy Elder wants to sell more mobile homes, and the customers who walk onto her lot sure want to buy them.

Both companies declined to comment Saturday on a published report that AOL Time Warner Inc. is negotiating to buy the Linux distributor Red Hat Inc.

Clearly, in the pinched language of damage control, ``mistakes were made.'' Now comes the time for Enron's executives and the accounting firm that allowed its creative bookkeeping to explain sudden bankruptcy.