Northwest Airlines will open a new transpacific...

Northwest Airlines will open a new transpacific route June 1 with nonstop service three times a week between Los Angeles and Taipei, Taiwan . . . Dunkin’ Donuts officials said a leveraged buyout of the company will be explored as an alternative to DD Acquisition Corp.’s increased $45-a-share offer . . . The New Jersey Casino Control Commission voted 5-0 to approved an interim casino authorization for Griffin Co., the holding company for Resorts International Inc. Resorts International still faces permanent licensing hearings in February . . . Eleven more Boeing 757s and 20 more Boeing 737s have been ordered by the Lufthansa Group of companies, Boeing Commercial Airplanes confirmed. The order is valued at about $1 billion . . . Assets of the nation’s 468 money market mutual funds rose by $191.6 million in the latest week to a new all-time high of $349.23 billion, the Investment Company Institute said.