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Archon (395 words) |
 | After 683 BCE[?] the offices were held for only a single year, and the year was named after the Archon Eponymous. |
 | (Many ancient calendar systems did not number their years consecutively as we do.) After 487 BCE the archonships were assigned by lot to any citizen and the Polemarch's military duties were taken over by a new class of generals known as strategoi. |
 | After 457 BCE ex-archons were automatically enrolled as life members of the Areopagus, though that assembly was no longer extremely important politically at that time. |
| BCE and Aliant form one of North America's largest regional telecommunications service providers (2346 words) |
 | The distribution by BCE of a portion of its interest to all of its common shareholders will be effected in conjunction with a reduction of approximately 75 million BCE common shares, or approximately 8 per cent of BCE common shares outstanding. |
 | The transaction is structured so that the value of the trust units distributed to BCE shareholders is approximately equivalent to the value of trust units that BCE was anticipating distributing to its shareholders in the context of the regional lines transaction announced on February 1. |
 | In particular, in making these statements, BCE has assumed, among other things, that the proposed transaction and subsequent distribution by BCE of units in the new trust will receive the required regulatory and securityholder approvals and that the other conditions to the transaction can be satisfied in accordance with their terms. |