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REP. TOM LANTOS, D-Calif., introduced a bill last week that would sharply limit the number of hours and times of day that teenagers could work. A Lantos spokesman predicted that the biggest critics of the measure would be the grocery and restaurant industries. t $18.35 each. The remaining 6.56 million will be sold both domestically and internationally for at least the same price.KROGER CO., Cincinnati,

REP. TOM LANTOS, D-Calif., introduced a bill last week that would sharply limit the number of hours and times of day that teenagers could work. A Lantos spokesman predicted that the biggest critics of the measure would be the grocery and restaurant industries.

t $18.35 each. The remaining 6.56 million will be sold both domestically and internationally for at least the same price.

KROGER CO., Cincinnati, said last week it has signed new bank-credit agreements totaling $2 billion with Citibank and Chase Manhattan Bank to provide additional operating flexibility and lower borrowing costs. The agreement replaces a $1.75 billion pact it signed in 1994 with the two banks.

WHOLE FOODS MARKET, Austin, Texas, said last week it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Amrion, Boulder, Colo., a producer and marketer of nutritional supplements and nutraceuticals. The transaction would involve an exchange of stock valued at $146 million, and is scheduled to close in September.

RISER FOODS' outstanding class B common shareholders agreed to tender their shares to Giant Eagle's Talon Acquisition Co. unit at $42 a share.

NASH FINCH CO., Minneapolis, said last week it had completed the previously announced acquisition of substantially all assets of United-A.G. Cooperative, Omaha, Neb.

GRAND UNION CO., Wayne, N.J., said it has consummated an agreement with its two primary investors to accelerate their purchase of $40 million of Grand Union's 8.5% Class A convertible preferred stock to fund store renovations.