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Moore McCormack Resources Inc. said its board...

Moore McCormack Resources Inc. said its board rejected as inadequate a sweetened $450-million bid from Southdown Inc. and authorized the sale of a Moore McCormack subsidiary as a move to enhance shareholder value. Last week Southdown, a Houston-based cement and energy company, increased its tender offer for all of the Stamford, Conn.-based firm’s outstanding common stock to $35 per share from its previous offer of $31 per share. Moore McCormack’s board authorized the sale of Moore McCormack Energy Inc., the company’s oil and gas subsidiary.

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