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* Walt Disney Co. asked the SEC to reconsider a staff decision letting shareholders vote on changes that would make it easier to nominate directors.
* Nitrogen-fertilizer maker Agrium Inc. settled a dispute with Unocal Corp. over a natural gas contract. Unocal said it would pay Agrium $25 million and report a $15-million charge in the fourth quarter.
* A U.S. appeals court ruled that Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry e-mail device, infringed on NTP Inc.’s patent -- but sent the case back to a lower court for some of the claims to be reconsidered.
* Countrywide Financial Corp. said it planned to add 7,500 jobs in Texas in the next six years to expand its share of the home loan market.
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