With the potential of an activist investor to battle management and an intention to focus on its upstream business, Hess, as a stock, is looking particularly interesting.

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And Valero management says it has every intention of paying down the borrowings in 2006.

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That, according to a suit filed by the California State Compensation Insurance Fund, was the intention behind Ideal Payroll Plus and Ideal Management, two Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.

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