In Business This Week

ET CETERA...

-- Baseball in April? Don't count on it. The owners imposed a player salary cap.

-- Christmas sales were fairly merry--except for apparel retailers and Toys 'R' Us.

-- Troubled Merry-Go-Roundwill shutter 200 of its 1,200 clothing stores by February.

-- Upjohn halted trials of Freedox, a trauma drug, because of a high death rate.EDITED BY KEITH H. HAMMONDS