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Peter Job

, Reuters' chief executive, told attendees at the Painewebber media conference last week that Reuters was not panicking over the announcement of the merger between Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank, two of the vendor's largest clients. Reuters has seen many mergers in the past and believes that stronger businesses tend to grow out of them, Job said. As of October 1996, Swiss Bank accounted for $55 million of gross revenues for Reuters data annually, making it the vendor's largest