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* Rosie O’Donnell said she would try to recover $8 million in legal fees from her battle with the publisher of her defunct magazine, now that a judge indicated that neither side would win damages.

* General Motors Corp. said it would take a fourth-quarter charge of about $1.2 billion before taxes to cover costs of employee payments it agreed to make in its new contract with the United Auto Workers union.

* The Tisch family, which controls Loews Corp., disclosed that it owned a 5.7% stake in Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Holdings Inc. worth $126 million.

* Starbucks Corp. said its fourth-quarter profit rose 21% to $69.6 million, or 17 cents a share, meeting Wall Street’s expectations. Revenue rose 25% to $1.1 billion.

* Banks will have to wait another year to enter the real estate business under legislation approved by congressional negotiators. The Treasury Department’s funding bill includes a one-year ban on regulations that would let banks manage real estate and broker home sales.

* Cisco Systems Inc. Chief Executive John Chambers sold 2 million shares of the network equipment maker’s stock, netting more than $38 million.

* Mattel Inc.’s Fisher-Price unit is recalling about 30,000 electric scooters and about 55,000 electric minibikes to fix defective power circuits. The recall covers Lightning PAC Scooters and MX3 Mini Bikes.