September 20, 1987

LEAD: FOR the first time in years, experienced Eurobond dealers are looking for jobs - and not finding them. In one major sector of the Euromarkets, for floating-rate notes, roughly a quarter of the people have lost their jobs in the past year. Many banks and investment houses have quietly retreated from the most competitive areas, while a big British bank, Lloyds Bank P.L.C., announced three months ago that it was pulling out of the Euromarkets altogether.

LEAD: Part 2 of The Times Magazine today is The Business World, including these special reports:

LEAD: Its architectural resemblance to the historical site hundreds of miles south in Virginia is why the 6.5-acre office complex now going up in East Brunswick, N.J., will be inaugurated as Williamsburg Commons when it is completed late next year.

LEAD: LESS than four years ago, William Dean Singleton had no newspapers and no money to speak of - only a yearning to own a newspaper chain. By the end of this year, if all goes according to plan, the newspaper chain the 36-year-old Texan runs will be worth an estimated $1.2 billion, with Mr. Singleton owning roughly one-third of that.

LEAD: Soviet diplomats told the United States this week that important regulations used to prevent Soviet Jews from emigrating were being eased and that an amnesty was possible for some political and religious prisoners, according to a State Department official.