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BCE Inc. : BCE 1st Quarter Earnings (469 words) |
 | BCE's consolidated net income for the first quarter 1985 was $255.4 million, up 25.9 per cent from the $202.8 million reported for the same period last year. |
 | BCE chairman A. Jean de Grandpré said the 18.2 per cent increase in earnings per share reflects improved results from telecommunications operations, with Bell Canada having contributed $0.70 per share, compared with $0.63 the previous year. |
 | BCE's preferred dividend requirements were equivalent to $0.05 in the first quarter of 1985 ($0.06 in 1984). |
| Attalus I - Wikipedia (2831 words) |
 | After a period of peace, in 218 BCE, while Achaeus was involved in an expedition to Selge south of the Taurus, Attalus, with some Thracian Gauls, recaptured his former territories. |
 | Perhaps because of concern for the ambitions of Philip V of Macedon, Attalus had sometime before 219 BCE become allied with Philips' enemies the Aetolian League, a union of Greek states in Aetolia, in central Greece, having funded the fortification of Elaeus, an Aetolian stronghold in Calydonia, near the mouth of the river Achelous. |
 | In 211 BCE, a treaty was signed between Rome and the Aetolian League, a provision of which allowed for the inclusion of certain allies of the League, Attalus being one of these. |