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  • *** Metals and mining Massey Energy, the U. S.'s sixth-largest coal miner, is exploring strategic alternatives, including a possible sale, according to people familiar with the matter.

    Business Watch 2010

  • Massey, the nation's sixth-largest coal company by production, is considering a sale of the company, according to people familiar with the matter.

    Massey Reports $41.4 Million Loss Kris Maher 2010

  • Guinness is the sixth-largest import in the U.S. by sales volume, according to Beverage Information Group.

    Guinness Makes Play for the U.S. Market David Kesmodel 2010

  • Massey Energy Co., the nation's sixth-largest coal miner, is exploring strategic alternatives, including a possible sale, according to people familiar with the matter.

    Massey's Directors Mull Sale, Options Joann S. Lublin 2010

  • Diageo-Guinness USA, the sixth-largest U.S. beer supplier by sales, also plans to include basketball celebrities in ads next year linked to college basketball's March Madness championship tournament run, which will start on St. Patrick's Day, a crucial sales period for the brewer.

    Guinness Makes Play for the U.S. Market David Kesmodel 2010

  • The Houston metropolitan area, which has a population of 5.9 million, is the USA's sixth-largest, up two notches since 2000.

    Texas big Census winner this decade 2010

  • "We find the Asean economy to be sizable, the sixth-largest economy in the world if the euro area is taken as a single block," wrote Edward Teather , an economist at UBS, in research report about Asean integration last month.

    Asia Seeks Integration Despite EU's Woes Eric Bellman 2011

  • Sudan has been China's sixth-largest source of overseas oil and accounted for 5% of its oil imports last year.

    At South Sudan's Birth, Eyes Are on Northerner Will Connors 2011

  • HSBC , the sixth-largest global foreign-exchange institution, is looking to enter the mix, too.

    Banks' Currency Clients Get High-Tech Tools Erin McCarthy 2011

  • Before Friday, the stock had been the sixth-largest gainer in the S & P 500 in October.

    Gannett Nat Worden 2010

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