Also. . .

* Boston Chicken Inc., operator of Boston Market restaurants, hired Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Discover & Co. to sell its 52% stake in Einstein/Noah Bagel Corp. in an effort to ease its cash crunch. The company could raise more than $90 million in the sale.

* RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp. Chairman Steven Goldstone stepped up his attack on pending tobacco legislation in Congress, suggesting that politicians should buy tobacco companies if they’re as unhappy as they profess to be about how the industry is run. Goldstone made the comments in a speech in Arizona, home state of Republican Sen. John McCain, sponsor of the Senate legislation.